What type of strap is this?

[RichB]

My granddad used to always wear his watches on this kind of strap and I'd like to put his old watch back onto a similar strap. I've had a look on Google but not found much, the vaguely similar ones all look too heavy or chunky and back in the day they were actually quite soft, pigskin I think. Are they known by a particular name?

[TheJimi]

That is known as a "Bund Strap" and the style dates back to WW1.

Very cool with the right watch

[RichB]

Thanks Jimi, that's a great help. So I intend to put my Grandad's long service watch onto one of these. It's an Accurist dated 1944. Accurist are a lower end watch brand these days and rather strangely their web site says "making watches since 1946" so I don't know what happened to their history prior to that but I've clearly got one from 1944 - I have had it properly serviced by a watchmaker and he said it's a very nice movement inside. Perhaps old Accurists are a different breed?