As you can see, the Di-Modell "Jumbo" - on the left - is lined with fine grain calfskin, the keepers are double stitched - which in addition to providing handsome accents, increases durability and helps shape the keeper. Di-Modell uses a special method and pattern of stitching that reinforces the attachment of the buckle.

If the back of the new, more expensive Hirsch "Liberty" looks rough, that's because it is.

The Hirsch brand strap is not lined - next to the wrist is simply the rough side of the leather used to make the strap, and the course stitching is obvious. I've never seen an un-lined strap before -- even on the cheapest watch straps from Asia that are shown in at the international watch trade show in Basel, Switzerland.

I thought a top view of both straps also might give a useful comparison. The look of number of stitches per inch and the thickness of the thread falls into the subjective a bit. But with less stitches per inch, the other brand watch strap is a weaker construction.

My preference is for more stitches per inch because that makes a more durable strap, and the finer thread in the Di-Modell "Jumbo" at the bottom of the photo. To me the somewhat crude-looking stitching in that Hirsch watch strap seems out of character with finer pilot and sports watches often worn today.

There's another "gotcha" with the Hirsch strap - it may not work well with deployants according to a watch owner I talked with recently. He said he couldn't always get the deployant buckled on his "Liberty". He'd gotten the "Hirsch" strap and deployant on a watch he purchased.

I'd bought one of those straps to evaluate it and I figured out why he had problems buckling the deployant . The Hirsch strap doesn't thin down very much from the lugs to the tip - unlike most straps, including the Di-Modell "Jumbo" which do - I measured the Hirsch strap a @ 4.3 mm where the holes are. And because of the type of leather used to make the Hirsch strap, so it doesn't compress much - that all combines to make deployants a no fit or a REALLY tight fit in a deployant..

My Di-Modell "Jumbos" works with my Deluxe Deployant clasps.

 

 

 

 

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