This Watch Brand Has Made a Completely New Kind of Strap Using Lasers

It looks like fabric, feels like metal, and is as light as rubber. Any watch fan looking to tick all of the above boxes would normally expect to be a dab hand with a spring bar removal tool to experience all the above individually, but a new strap developed by Malaysian independent brand Ming appears to now offer the best of all worlds. The one strap to rule them all has been dubbed the Polymesh, and is 3D-printed from grade five titanium, and comprises 1,693 interconnected pieces (including the buckle) held together without any pins or screws. The only additional parts requiring assembly are the quick-release spring bars at each end that attach it to the watch--the articulated pin buckle is also formed in the same process. Ming says that the strap, which is made up from rows of 15 equilateral triangles, meshed together and bookended by larger end pieces, "has more motion engineered into the radial axis than the lateral one," leading to a supple end result that drapes like fabric yet retains the strength of titanium.