Drycabinets
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If you have worn your leather strap watch daily, the average life span for the leather is about 1 year. However, this can be reduced to only 6 months in severe circumstances i.e. heavy sports practicing or frequent sea bathing or frequent washing hands with your leather strap watch on your wrist, or can be extended to 18 months if you take extreme good care of your watch.
Excessive humid may so cause mildewing on leather. Excessive dryness, on the other hand, may cause cracking. This happens when the leather lost its natural lubricant. There is no use buying water-resistant leather because these most likely will not work as well. It is impossible to cover all the pores on the leather. Leather, like your skin, needs to breath. Other materials such as lizard, ostrich, but also alligator in a shiny finish, are very delicate. These kinds of leather straps need extra care.
Typical humidity levels in Singapore may hit as high as 90% RH, this is bad for storage of such goods; it could cause your branded handbags, shoes, precious accessories, and collections to turn moldy, deteriorating, discolouring, aged, oxidized, stained, rotting, getting bad odours, or loosening their lustre. These damages not only affect the value of your precious items, but also waste your time, effort and money to correct the problems, e.g., repair, maintenance, cleaning up. Therefore it is so important to invest in a quality dry cabinet to preserve your quality luxury goods. The usage of a dehumidifier at settings 30~50% would be best to maintain leather and faux leather products. (Note: Humidity set too low will cause leather to crack easily.)
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