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Everwood Original

Inverness Walnut Wooden Watch with Black Dial and Brown Strap

Inverness Walnut Wooden Watch with Black Dial and Brown Strap

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Walnut and brown leather are the same color family, and this Inverness from Everwood Original uses that to make one warm brown band around a black dial. The dark walnut bezel and the brown strap sit close enough in tone that the wrist reads as one material, and the black dial is the only cool note on it. The 45 mm case, 1.77 inches across, is 316L stainless steel front and back, and the wood sits on the bezel.

  • Brown on brown. A walnut bezel and a brown strap sit in the same tone, so the wrist shows one band of warm brown around the dial.
  • Navy and olive. Walnut brown is the wood that lifts navy, olive and gray, the three colors most closets are built on.
  • Dry it flat. A leather strap caught in rain dries flat on a towel in an hour, and never on a radiator, which curls it.

Walnut and Brown Leather Together

A wooden watch worn on brown leather is the easiest wood watch to wear every day, because brown is what most people already own in belts, boots and bags. Walnut deepens the match: it is a brown wood rather than a yellow or red one, so the bezel and the strap share a base tone. The black dial is what stops brown on brown from going flat, giving the eye a dark center to rest on.

Colors That Sit with Walnut

Walnut brown is a warm neutral, and warm neutrals bring cool colors forward. Navy looks deeper next to it, olive looks greener, and mid gray stops looking like an office uniform. The colors to be careful with are other browns that are lighter and redder than the bezel, since two browns a shade apart look like a mistake where two browns far apart look like a choice. The movement is Miyota Japanese quartz with three hands and a date.

Drying a Leather Strap

Everwood rates the steel case to 50 meters, which covers rain, handwashing and a splash, and the leather strap is what you keep out of the water. When the strap does get rained on, take the watch off, lay the strap flat on a towel and leave it for an hour. Heat from a radiator or a hair dryer drives the moisture out too fast and curls the leather, and a curled strap never sits flat on the wrist again. The strap sits on quick-release bars and closes with a memory lock clasp in stainless steel.

Black Dial Watch on Walnut

A black dial watch reads its hours off applied indices, the small raised metal bars that catch side light, and its seconds off a printed track around the rim. The date shows inside the dial, so day of the month and time arrive in one glance. The bezel stands above the case and never reaches the wrist, so the walnut stays clean while the polished steel caseback takes the skin contact.

Inverness Walnut with Brown Leather

What colors go with a walnut watch? Navy, olive, charcoal and white, the cool and neutral colors that a warm brown lifts. Avoid a second brown a shade lighter than the bezel, which reads as a near miss.

Should a wet strap be dried with heat? No. Lay it flat on a towel at room temperature. Heat drives moisture out unevenly and leaves the leather curled at the holes.

Is walnut darker than most watch woods? Yes. Walnut is a naturally brown hardwood, darker than bamboo, maple or zebrawood, which is why it reads close to black in low light.

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