Creating leather straps for watches since 1947
HANDMADE IN SPAIN
Creating watch straps since 1947
Atelier Ferrer Channel is dedicated to the production of luxury leather watch straps and special orders. Leather, a noble material, is manufactured in our workshops in accordance with a traditional technique and method, which makes each watch band unique.
At Atelier Ferrer Channel we work exclusively with the best tanners in Spain, France and Italy. We take special care in the selection and purchase of leather for the manufacture of our leather watch straps. This approach allows us to offer you leather products that meet your expectations in terms of aesthetics, durability and optimal comfort.
ALLIGATOR - It is extremely durable and strong. Requiring a cut different from those used for other leathers, rare and precious alligator hides exhibit exceptional character and unconventional longevity. Alligator skin differs from crocodile skin because the round scales are smaller in size. The belly, tail and head scales are more angular.
The alligator exists in a glossy or matte finish. As the alligator is a protected species, alligator watch straps are always controlled by CITES Certificates.
OSTRICH - Patina, suppleness and character are so many qualities that make ostrich skin as prestigious as crocodile and python. Ostrich leather exists perfectly with luxury watches in the context of daily use and both on classic, sports, retro or modern models.
Ostrich skin is characterized by its unusual design. The follicles on the leather caused by the spots left on the hide where the bird's feathers have been removed, giving this hide a unique appearance, returning its structure different from other hides. The number of follicles dictates the price of the skin.
CORDOVAN - It is a horse leather famous for its durability, self-cleaning character, breathability, deep color, soft touch and shine. Shell Cordovan is difficult and expensive to produce. En a natural product tanned for six months with natural food grade fats, oils, fats and waxes. The tanning process, carried out since 1905 at Chicago's Horween Leather, includes around 100 steps, most of which are done manually or using machines in the world virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution.
DEER - This leather, the most natural of all, is tanned in a small town near Barcelona, without heavy metals or synthetic chemicals, a 100% vegetable tanning, without chrome and without synthetic pre-tanning agents.
Red deer live in the wild, brave the wind and weather, fight with their rivals and scratch themselves with thorns. This is why their skin has marks, scratches and abrasions that are reflected in the leather and give each strap a unique look.
VACHETTA - It is a type of full-grain vegetable tanned leather, made from cowhides. It is distinguished by its high fat content and its natural finish, almost untreated. The fat content creates a smooth, buttery finish to the touch.
While the name Vachetta comes from the French word for cattle, it actually has an Italian heritage and is primarily produced in Tuscany. Hence the common description of Florentine Vachetta leather.
NAPPA - Presents its open pores and the natural properties of the leather are easily recognized, since it cannot be covered with dyes or varnishes, only with aniline dyes (organic compound).
For this reason, the quality is the best in leather as imperfections in the skin such as insect bites, spike scratches or other marks cannot be covered.
LIZARD - Before the crocodile and the alligator, the lizard was used extensively for watch straps.
If at first the lizard skin wristwatches were intended for
men more than women, over time, became almost exclusively
“reserved” for ladies...
The advantage of lizard is its price: it is the cheapest of all reptiles. The appearance of the colors of tanned lizard leathers is simply phenomenal. Lizard is one of the most durable leathers available.
CHAGRIN - This goat leather is their top grade, it is vegetable tanned in a unique 23 step process that takes over 3 weeks to produce each hide. This special process involves many hands and working the leather to give it a beautiful grain, soft feel, and consistent color. The grain has a natural texture that adds a beautiful depth to the leather.
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XTREME - Natural bull leather that stands out for its great resistance, ideal for intensive use.
High resistance to sea water, temperature changes, oil, sun, chlorine, alcohol.
Antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal treatment. Maximum tensile strength.
SAFFIANO - Saffiano leather is like an elegant blend of luxury and practicality. It comes from a famous Italian fashion brand called Prada, which is all about high-end style. But what's great is that Saffiano leather isn't just stylish; it's also super strong.
VELVET - This leather is dyed with premium aniline dyes that penetrate the entire surface, and also features a water-repellent finish. Each piece is carefully finished through a fine sanding process that results in a uniform surface with a magnificent velvety feel.
From the selection of the most refined leather products to the final polishing, this product has undergone sixty manual operations and has required between 45 and 55 minutes of work.
Individual Patterns for each of the leather parts en our products are made by hand. In order to ensure un optimal processing de our leather, we lower each piece of leather in our workshop.
While part full leather lowers when split layered barely tenths of a millimeter de thickness, only the edges exterior of the skin is loweredan on machine in such a way that the skin can be hammered o fold.
The basic piece of leather also lays the foundation for beautiful, precise stitching in the final product. After all, perfect seams can only be achieved when multiple pieces of Overlapping and processed leather have been precisely lowered.
Blank cuts for our products are drill individually by hand with the help of a die cutter swivel.
They are the cuts that later they serve for with the lining, insert la part that has to be el strap padding.
The series in straps flat are die-cut en die cutting line de table.
The points in each product are executed with precision and special intuitive skill.
The lateral line (filleting), made by hand with a hot tool, gives an impeccable finish to the strap.
We dye and sharpen the edges of our products at least three times by hand in our workshop.
Our products are hand-sewn in our sewing studio. We differentiate between the studio stitch (which is sewn with a needle and a thread) and the classic hand stitches (which uses two needles and a thread). Once all the necessary stitches have been pre-punched, our products are hand-stitched with just one thread and two alternating needles, after which each stitch is pulled hard. The first stitch is done twice on both needles, as is the last stitch, which is also double-knotted.
Since we only use one thread, it is impossible to pull the stitch, unlike mechanical stitches with separate top and bottom threads.
Many item producers high quality leather still maintain the tradition of las classic saddle stitching. We are proud to be one of them. Refined like sewing by hand, this tradition lives on on our watch straps handmade, demonstrating once again that is the besttechnique. There is a good reason for this: every move de the hand contributes to the quality ofthe final product. Only seamstresses they need half an hour for una hand-sewn watch strap
