Your heirloom and special pocket watches should be enjoyed, worn and treated with great care. A great way to safely wear your watch more often is to wear it on leather lanyard and your favourite pair of jeans. For the price of a quality wrist watch strap, you can get a handmade lanyard and start wearing your pocket watches more often.

Don’t drop your pocket watch, get yourself a lanyard 👍

A bit about me: I wanted to securely and comfortably wear my pocket watch with jeans. I couldn’t find anything of good quality available. So, what to do? I taught myself leathercraft and went through a number of design prototypes along the way. With that testing behind me, I am really honoured to now offer you these 100% hand-crafted leather pocket watch lanyards to my fellow watch enthusiasts. If, like me, you want a rugged, useful and good-looking pocket watch lanyard that can be swapped throughout your pocket watch collection, then you want to get your hands on one of these.

You don’t need a vest or a three piece suit to wear a pocket watch. That little pocket on your jeans that you maybe use for pocket change? This is a "watch pocket" that was introduced in the late 1800’s as a protective sleeve for wearing a pocket watch. Most jeans are still being produced with these pockets, I bet you have one. Now all you need is a lanyard, let me tell you about the ones I make:

Features:
• Made by hand in Vancouver, BC, Canada, from quality full-grain vegetable-tanned Australian Kangaroo leather. Kangaroo leather is renowned for it's impressive ratio of softness to strength

• These lanyards are perfect for pretty much any railroader or other size 16 pocket watch, as shown in photos. Size 16 watches are apx 2" (5cm) wide. These lanyards will most likely fit any smaller pocket watches. Feel free to ask me in advance if you have questions

• You can easily swap out different pocket watches with your lanyard, or to put your watch away for storage

• Another important advantage that these lanyards have is that they will not stretch your watch’s bow or scratch the watch like metal clasps on chains can

• I think that the flagship of this lanyard’s design is the mystery braid that’s woven in. The braided section looks awesome, and you will enjoy confusing people as they wonder how this one single piece of leather can possibly have a braid in the middle. Very cool 😎. The braided section makes for a soft, flexible and strong lanyard

• Your lanyard will provide apx 12" (30cm) of length from your belt to your watch

• Fits easily on a standard 1 1/2" belt

• The leather keepers are glued & hand-stitched to stay put

• The belt-loop end can also be opened if needed, but until then it will securely hold and protect your watch while in use, or in case of an accidental drop

• You're smart and could easily figure it out on your own, but just in case, your lanyard ships with a little "how to" brochure to remind you how to use it

• Watches shown are not included (it just needed to be said)

How to choose?

• Buying as a gift? I'm happy to conspire with you to get the perfect lanyard ready for the lucky recipient

• Standard for the brown lanyards is to ship with with antiqued brass hardware (button studs) as shown. However, at no extra cost, you can choose to instead instead have either bright brass, black or gunmetal hardware (please see photos). Feel free to ask in advance, and also let me know your preferences in the “Personalization” field when ordering

• Standard for the black lanyards is to ship with with gunmetal hardware (button studs) as shown. However, at no extra cost, you can choose to instead instead have either antiqued brass, black or bright brass hardware (please see photos). Feel free to ask in advance, and also let me know your preferences in the “Personalization” field when ordering

• By default, your lanyard’s stitching will be in a matching colour. But, for no extra cost, I’ll customize your lanyard with your choice of stitching colour. Maybe you’d like blue stitching to match the blued hands on your watch, or plum for plum coloured hands? If I have it in stock I'm happy to provide it, and I'm open to your questions and ideas! Send me a message or simply let me know your preferences in the “Personalization” field when ordering

How many do you want?

• You might want one of each colour! And, these really would make a wonderful gift for yourself or any watch enthusiast in your life, and I am happy to provide you with 10% off if you buy two or more lanyards in your order with coupon code NEED2ORMORE

Shipping

• Your lanyard(s) ship for free via Canada Post. That's nice right? Included shipping is not tracked. PLEASE NOTE: Expedited and tracked shipping is available as an upgrade. Please see the shipping options when checking out to select what you'd prefer. Feel encouraged to reach out in advance of ordering if you have any questions

• I ship from my home in Canada. Please note that international shipments WILL REQUIRE your PHONE NUMBER for the customs forms. If you are located outside of Canada, please include a phone number in your order. You can add this to the Personalization section please. Note that although your phone number may be in your Etsy profile, Etsy's system does not provide phone numbers automatically, so thank you in advance for your help.


Dave, do you have a video about these lanyards?

• Indeed I do! I have posted a 5 minute video on YouTube that will tell you about these lanyards, how to wear them and what they look like when on duty. Please check it out at https://youtu.be/RFECQg6aPMM.


I am grateful for the opportunity to live, work and create leather goods on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) people