RSM Hardware
Distressed Hardware
Did you realise your favourite pair of jeans has amazing rivets and buttons? We adopt the interesting manufacturing knowledge across all disciplines, whenever possible to make the most unique watch bands. The distressed end caps are placed on the Camo and Vintage Military straps to accentuate the vintage vibes. We may like our watches to be pristine but our straps can afford to be rough and tough!
Watch / Shoe Buckle
Stress on the strap is where it overlaps. This shoe buckle geometry allows the most natural form of strap overlap.
While they look slim and delicate, these buckles are made of 316L Stainless Steel. Pushing the limits of lightness without compromising quality.
Adjustable Single pass Ladder Buckle
A very important and overlooked aspect is safety when it comes to buckles.
There are occasions where a child you are carrying can suffer long scratches from your buckles if they are not rounded off at its corners when you put them down from your arms. Or, you could even cut yourself or anyone close.
These buckles have all corners rounded off not only for aesthetic reasons. Do you know one of the key reasons a strap frays quickly is due to the pin tips being too sharp and frays the materials around the holes when you wear it. Once rounded, it reduces the fraying activities.
Spring Loaded Deployant Clasp
A butterfly spring loaded, deployant clasp cool and fun to put on or take it off.
The great part is the length of your straps made with a tang buckle will fit this butterfly clasp. Unlike a single fold clasp that needs both sides of your straps to be of almost equal length to fit.
The magic about this clasp is not so much the spring loaded abilities but the geometry of the piece of steel in contact with your wrist. It is worked over and rounded off at every possible angle so you almost don’t feel like you are wearing a clasp.
Holeless Clamp Buckle
Safety harnesses and buckles have been studied very thoroughly for years. When we learnt that the natural silk yarn cannot melt in heat unlike synthetic yarns, we had to come up with a unique solution.
A buckle that uses a teeth clamp similar to safety equipment had to be customised.
There are multiple benefits to this design. It secures the watch to your wrist and allows endless micro adjustments to fit your wrist.
Unique RSM Textures
Unique Watch Strap Texture
We believe the role of the strap is a complementary product to the watch. It should have an interesting but not a loud personality to compete with the watch’s attention.We believe the role of the strap is a complementary product to the watch. It should have an interesting but not a loud personality to compete with the watch’s attention.
Whether it is nylon, silk, canvas, polyester or leathers, we always strive for a unique texture for your individual expression with your timepiece.
Vintage Military webbing for watch straps
Inspired from WWII vintage military webbing, we made numerous prototypes of the watch strap before we ultimate landed on a specific weave with the right density of texture.
A modern poly-cotton yarn is used as it resembles the touch and feel of the light, cotton webbing.
Cross / X-Hatch Nylon watch strap
Looking at the close up of the dollar note, we are amazed at how the hatch patterns can express skin, hair and fabric textures only. We developed the X-Hatch range from this concept.
We never expect this to become one of our most wrist hugging watch bands.
Leather Watch Strap Stitches
If textures are the soul to a watch band, the stitches give it structure.
The longevity of the straps depends largely on its stitches. The lack of it sometimes is a balance between aesthetics and durability. Certain styles and materials of straps are not expected to be worn by the special forces. So, building it for purpose is critical.
While the purpose of stitches are to hold the materials together, they can be very decorative should we choose to expose or highlight them as accents. It would be equally as tricky if we want to hide the stitches to not overcomplicate a certain minimal look.
Leather watch strap tapering widths and thickness
Tapering the leather strap. What most would observe is the tapering width of the leather strap to give it an elegant form from the wider lugs to the narrower buckle or tail end. Did you realise that great leather strap in fact tapers in its thickness from the lug ends to the buckle or tail ends? This gives it great dexterity at the part where it bends around your wrist the most. At the lug end where it needs to match the watch head, it would be best to have it slightly thicker. Now that you know all the critical points to a good leather strap. Head down to see our detailed shots of our leather straps.
Point Stitchings
Stitches are like structure to a leather strap. We need it for durability and they become decorative at the same time.
We chose strategically where we deploy the stitches and where do we stop.In areas where we decide to 'hide' the stitches to a minimum without compromising the durability, we use point stitching instead of carrying the entire line through.
Butt Stitching
When a fabric strap joins at its 2 ends, a normal method would be to overlap them and stitch over them. That would usually result in a bulge that creates additional pressure on our wrists.
We deployed the butt stitching method at the joint in order to increase the comfort of wearing the camo strap and it increases its durability at the same time.
Flush Stitching
The stitches of the leather watch strap is flushed with its surface because the line of stitches are positioned along a groove line.
This results in an extra neat and clean aesthetics we prefer for our leather watch straps.