Name: Custom Leather Watch Strap – Design Your Own Handmade Band
Rating: 5.00 (3 reviews)

Lug & Buckle Width

Lug width is the gap between the two lugs of your watch case, where the strap fits. Your strap has to match it exactly.

Most watches are 18, 20 or 22 mm. Measure inner edge to inner edge with a ruler — or flip your old strap over: the width is often printed inside.

Our sizes read lug / buckle: 20 / 18 mm is 20 mm at the watch, 18 mm at the buckle. Only the first number has to match your watch.

Read the full size guide →

A watch case seen from above with no strap fitted, an arrow across the gap between the two lugs marking the lug width.

Widths we cut

Another width? Choose Custom and enter your own.

Buckle width

The width of the strap where the buckle sits — the second number in our sizes. 20 / 18 mm means 18 mm at the buckle.

Every strap comes with a matching buckle. Keeping your own? Measure across the inside of its frame and choose Custom.

A digital caliper measuring the inside width of a watch strap buckle frame, reading 16.0 mm

Not sure? Email support@xilugs.com with your watch’s brand and model — we’ll confirm before we cut.

Strap Length Guide

Every strap has two parts: the long end with the holes and the short end with the buckle. 115 / 70 mm means 115 mm long, 70 mm short.

Wrap a soft tape — or a paper strip — just above the wrist bone. Snug, not tight. Then find your size below.

A watch strap laid flat, showing the long end with the holes and the short end with the buckle, each measured — Tap the image to enlargeClick the image to enlarge

Find your size

Wrist size

Suggested fit. Watch over 44 mm: go one size shorter. Like it loose: one size longer.

Long / Short	Your wrist
105 / 65 mm	up to 14.5 cm
105 / 70 mm	14.6 – 15.5 cm
115 / 70 mm	15.6 – 16.5 cm
115 / 75 mm	16.6 – 17.5 cm
125 / 75 mm	17.6 – 18.5 cm
125 / 85 mm	18.6 – 19.5 cm
135 / 85 mm	19.6 – 20.5 cm
135 / 95 mm	20.6 – 21.5 cm
135 / 105 mm	21.6 – 22.5 cm
Custom size — type your own lengths

Between two sizes? Take the larger one — or choose Custom and enter your own lengths.

Not sure? Email support@xilugs.com with your wrist size — we’ll confirm before we cut.

Read the full size guide →

Straight or curved end?

This is the end of the strap that meets your watch case.

A watch strap with a straight-cut end meeting the watch case, with a small gap at the lugs

Straight end — cut straight across. Fits almost any watch; a small gap at the case is normal.

A watch strap with a curved end cut to follow the round edge of the watch case, sitting flush with no gap

Curved end — cut in an arc to follow the round edge of the case, so the strap sits flush with no gap. Tell us your watch brand and model and we’ll match the curve.

Not sure? Choose Straight — it fits everything.

Not sure? Email support@xilugs.com with your watch’s brand and model — we’ll confirm before we cut.

Keepers

The two small leather loops on the buckle half — the strap tail slides through them so it lies flat.

Top loop (further from the buckle) and bottom loop (next to the buckle) on the buckle half of a watch strap

Match leather — both loops in the strap's own leather.
Match underlay — both loops in the colour under the holes.
One colour — one colour for both loops.
Two colours +$5 — the Top loop and the Bottom loop each in their own colour.

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How Your Custom Strap Is Made

01

Configure Your Strap
Choose your leather, colour, lug width, length, buckle, stitching, lining and personalisation.
02

We Review Your Details
Our team checks your selected options and notes before production begins.
03

Handcrafted to Order
Your strap is cut, assembled, stitched, edged and finished by hand in our workshop.
04

Checked Before Shipping
Each strap is inspected before it is packed and shipped to you.

Handcrafted Through a Controlled Process

Every custom strap is made to order in our Hanoi workshop. From leather selection to edge finishing and final inspection, each step is handled with control, patience and attention to detail.

01
Review Your Configuration
We check your selected leather, colour, size, buckle, stitching, lining and notes before crafting begins.
02
Select & Cut the Leather
The leather is selected and cut according to your chosen strap width, length and style.
03
Assemble & Stitch
The layers are assembled and stitched by hand in the thread colour you picked.
04
Finish the Edges
Edges are sanded, burnished and sealed — the step that decides how the strap ages.
05
Final Inspection
Every strap is checked against your order before it is packed.

Built for daily wear

Watch Strap Structure

Every strap is built around the three details that decide how it lives on your wrist — not the ones that photograph well.

01
Quick release spring bars
Choose quick release or regular spring bars. We fit them before it ships, so you can change straps in seconds — no tools, no scratched lugs.
02
Soft Zermatt lining
The underside is lined with soft, water-resistant Zermatt — comfortable against the skin all day, and in warm weather.
03
Your name on the lining
Initials or a name, hand-stamped into the lining free of charge, so the piece on your wrist is one of one.

PACKAGING

Every strap arrives in a wooden box

No envelopes, no plastic mailers. Every XILUGS order ships in our own wooden box, lined with a shock-absorbing foam insert that holds up to four straps securely in place. A spring bar tool is tucked inside, so you can fit your new strap the day it arrives, and the box keeps your collection safe long after.

Wooden box with every order
Holds up to 4 straps
Shockproof foam insert
Spring bar tool included

A XILUGS box shown closed and open, with a strap and a spring bar tool held in a foam insert

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Custom Leather Watch Strap – Design Your Own Handmade Band

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