Atelier Jean Rousseau Straps
Atelier Jean Rousseau are another company that makes specialist straps, and can easily accomodate commissions for Panerai straps.
Their web site is available in both French and English at www.jean-rousseau.com.
They can also be contacted by email at atelier.jeanrousseau@wanadoo.fr.
I hope to be able to show some pictures of their straps on Panerai watches; in the meantime here is what they have to say about themselves:
Our company exists since 1954 and we thrive in manufacturing and marketing leather straps (crocodile, shark, ostrich, python... ) for the OEM market. Our customers are amongst the most prestigious ones such as brands from the Richmont Group, the LVMH group etc.
We are happy to house numerous specialist craftsmen working along age old tradition, such as hand sewing, using single or double waxed thread, with straight or diagonal stitching. Moreover, we have an outlet in Paris ATELIER JEAN ROUSSEAU, in which we manufacture hand-made leather straps for any specific request.
Through our boutique in Paris or our website we have had many email contacts with people interested to have specific straps made, which we execute and also ship in all parts of the world, upon request.
For your information, our main factory in east of France (Besançon) which serves the OEM market has developed some very unique capacities in the strap business; one of them is our in-house skin finishing laboratory (calf, shark, and even alligator skins are in this way treated to the desired colour and finish) - it allows our major customers to be rewarded with exclusive colours or optimal regularity in hues and finish.
The quality of all our straps is also measured in our own laboratories, especially with regards to: