To the market for a replacement watch strap. The Chinese man who runs the stall is a strap wizard. It takes him about ten seconds to fit - and that includes reinstating the original buckle. Done and dusted for seven pounds.
I've bought similar straps in jewellers before, at triple the price, and without the option of retaining the buckle (apparently not possible). Not everyone can be a strap wizard, it seems.
My familiar watch sits awkwardly on my wrist, made a stranger by the stiff new leather. I look forward to the time when the strap arcs itself sympathetically around my wrist, my preferred buckle-hole established and marked in the leather.
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