Cypress is ironed with stains and a light wax coat into a smooth, tight grain with natural color variation and a matte finish.
From Horween in Chicago, nourished with oils and waxes and lined. It's an easy leather to wear with almost any watch.
Cypress is the forgiving one. A light wax is ironed into a tight, smooth grain, so a scrape against a doorframe burnishes in instead of leaving a scratch you have to look at for a year. The finish is matte and the color variation is natural but gentle, so a strap on a watch you wear outdoors ages without ever looking beaten. If you want texture you can see across the room, Yellowstone or Derby is the shelf to try.
Natural is pale and golden, the closest we cut to raw leather. Tan is a sun-warmed saddle shade. Brown is rustic and mid-toned. Burgundy moves between red and brown depending on the light, and Navy wears toward a deeper blue. Every one is lined with vegetable-tanned leather and cut 12 to 24mm, in three lengths or a custom one.