What do you do with your Portuguese in summertime?

Here in the Netherlands it is warm and humid at the moment, I guess in the rest of the Northern world it is even hotter and sweatier. Under those circumstances, what do you do with your Portuguese watches, in relation to straps or bracelets? I have thought of some alternatives, maybe you like to add your choice or comment.

1) You wear your Portuguese on leather strap no matter what, you renew the strap when necessary.
2) You wear your Portuguese in air conditioned circumstances, like at the office or cool home, so there are no problems.
3) You put another type of strap on your Portuguese, making it sweat resistant: what kind of strap?
4) You put a bracelet on your Portuguese (please, don't yell at me) making it sweat resistant: what kind of bracelet?
5) You don't wear your Portuguese in summertime because of the leather strap, you wait to do so until fall or winter.

For me, it is no. 2. At the office it is cool, and I like my Portuguese watches too much, I want to wear them. At home, not air conditioned, it is OK in the evening. All in all my straps look still fine. When on holiday, under sportier conditions, I don't wear a Portuguese in the morning or the afternoon, this is time for my titanium Ingenieur. At dinner, well, I wear one of my Portuguese watches quite often.

Kind regards,
Paul, wearing steel VC Pilot's watch

2

I use a rubber strap on my Portuguese (nt)

2 as well, although...

...weather hasn't stopped me from wearing my favorite watch. I'm just a bit selective and limit the use of some watches vs others.
These beauties were made for wearing!

Cheers,
Evan

2 as well! nt

Come rain, sunshine or snow

I wear mine nearly every day over the weekend sometimes I wear a Panerai which is also on a Leather strap , I love my Portuguese so much that even if I had to change and buy a new strap every month I would still keep wearing the Portuguese. Not sure why but my straps remain in excellent condition, on my first Portuguese the strap is still as good as new, I really want my straps to wear out so that just gives me a chance to go and buy a new one!

As Evan said (These beauties were made for wearing!)

Enjoy.

Basically number 1, but I rotate through my....

watches so often it does not seem to matter.

Mostly 2. I will wear a Portuguese outside if

I'm not likely to get real sweaty. But for more active times, I leave the Portuguese at home and wear the Aquatimer on bracelet.

The one "benefit"...

from living in a perpetually warm climate is that virtually everywhere is air conditioned. I am wearing my VC Ingenieur today and I traveled from an air conditioned home in an air conditioned vehicle to an air conditioned office. When I do have to be outdoors for an extended period, that is when IWC's excellent bracelets (one of the many reasons I love the CFDV) are perfect for the weather down here. I agree...all of my watches are for wearing on a regular basis!

Best regards,
Jim

Number 2. like the AT or metal band in summer.

3 => bracelet (nt)

Number 5 for my BP, it's not a Portuguese...

but I don't wan't to change straps very often.

That way I also take time to look at my other watches in the collection (too much time for the BP and little for the others).

Julx, today wearing submariner date

3 => another bracelet (nt)

I hoped for this kind of a reaction

Hi Heiko,

You got a flying Portuguese, puting some Pilot's bracelets on them? I think they look quite OK, I wonder how a wrist shot would look like. I like the pragmatism of this solution, just being playful with conventions (do we have one here, no bracelets on Portuguese?) I find very attractive. As all the parts are high quality, why not?

Kind regards,
Paul, wearing steel VC Pilot's watch, on a conventional buffalo strap, with one hole more to allow for a thicker wrist

A strap

Have the chrono and the 7 day, both on straps. Would love a suitable iwc bracelet and yet they do not do one as an option. Interesting to note that although the size is similar for the chrono and 7 day, the straps are a different width. Why no SS bracelet with a sprung connection to suit the different width? Something like the rice grain bracelet would look good without detracting from the watch. Might add I had a praise heaped on the 7 day only yesterday. (the SS with gold indices and hands silver dial)

Dirty sweaty jobs no IWC, Seiko K