There are many types of leather strap. And cow leather strap is the common one in the competitive market. Leather straps provide the soft,comfortable feelings to watch wearers.In addition, wearing leather strap can avoid the allergy to human body that stainless steel bracelet can cause. Hence, many people prefer leather straps.
To tell you the truth, leather straps are not as solid and durable as metal bracelets.Wearing life of leather strap is normally 2-3 years. However, as long as you wear it in correct ways and care for it, its service life can be greatly increased.
Like other leather stuff, leather strap can get harm from water. Soaked in water(include human sweat) for a long, leather strap will harden and turn brittle. Therefore, never wear a watch with leather straps to go swimming,neither do anything wit prolonged exposure to water. If soaked in sweat chronically, leather strap will turn moldy with bad smell. As a result, it is not suitable for those who tend to weat easily to wear watch with leather straps. As far as I am concerned, many people are equipped with both metal bracelets and leather staps since leather strap is not a good choice as watch band in summer. leather strap on cool days while metal bracelet in summer.
The long-term exposure to strong sunlight will not only make the color of leather strap fade away but also accelerate the aging of its cortex. Due to strong pull and force, leather strap will tend to break. So please bear a caring mind in your head to wear watch with careful movements.
In regard with cleaning of leather strap, you can use a soft wet cloth with some "das Spuelmittel" to wipe the leather strap.Then clean it again with clean wet cloth, last place it at a cool place to dry it. In fact, common leather oil can be used for the maintenance fo leather strap. Preferably leather strap ought to have cleaning at intervals of one month, after that you are supposed to use some common leather protecting agent for cleaning and maintenance.
