Review on Hadley Roma MSM881RB 180 Brown Oil Tan Leather Watch Band by Christopher Jackson

The watch strap looks very attractive but has a serious design flaw that limits its lifespan. If you look at the picture you will see two loops that the rest of the watch strap has to go through. Unfortunately, one of these loops is attached forever. This makes attaching the strap almost impossible as you have to bend the strap a lot when pushing down to keep the metal clasp from slipping out of the hole. (Most of the time it pops anyway.) What makes this design particularly problematic is that by repeating such a tight bend in a watch strap, you're bound to break it much sooner than you otherwise would. This watch strap lasted almost exactly a year before the underside of the leather came off completely, making the strap even more difficult to attach and uncomfortable on my wrist. To put this in perspective, the factory watch strap lasted three years (under the same usage patterns) and would have lasted even longer if I had noticed in time that the adhesive on the small loop had come loose to hold it in front of the leather torn to reattach. In short, I would not recommend this group in the way it was intended. If you still decide to buy it, you should take scissors and cut the fixed loop from the tape and pull it out. This watch strap would probably be a good buy if they didn't introduce that unnecessary piece of extra leather. This disrupts and drastically shortens the life of the product for no good reason.