AKNAS is the working name of AKNAS Watchbands & Trading Co., Ltd, a Bangkok based, Thai-French, high-end manufacturing workshop specializing in exotic leathers.

Starting in 2001 with exclusively producing watchbands for Swiss and North-American luxury watchmakers, owners and collectors, the small but very specialized facility was immediately recognized for offering the highest quality and widest color range of deep-dyed galuchat (stingray leather), together with an unparalleled level of workmanship for this extremely complex material. The other exotic leathers used by the workshop are python and crocodile.

In 2005, building on this initial success, the workshop started producing small exotic leather accessories for women using its unique know-how, continually improved through R&D and became known for producing designs in galuchat until then deemed either impossible or lacking finesse.

From 2007, it could propose OEM, ODM and Unfinished services to its clientele of brands and designers from around the world. Historically bent on quality, the following years saw the creation of a silversmithing department, of breakthrough manufacturing techniques such as “groove-stitching” and the development of Men’s lines.