I bought this belt to replace one I had earlier with the exact same design but this one is clearly built with inferior materials.  The previous one I bought in a store (don't know who manufactured it, sorry) had slightly thicker and much stronger chrome belt holes and the leather was obviously thicker than this one, too.  I sort of expected this would happen before I made the purchase for this belt but Amazon was the last place I could find with this look so I took a gamble any way.