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A 16-inch laptop with documents and a charger, carried to an office or a meeting. Wide and flat rather than deep.
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Questions about this bag? Talk to us ↗Leather-lined hand-rubbed briefcase
Almost every leather bag at this price has a polyester interior. This one is lined in hide, which is why a 42 x 31 x 10 cm case weighs 1.3 kg. It is the widest bag in our laptop range and also the thinnest, built around a 16-inch machine that most slim briefcases will not take. Hand-rubbed top-grain cowhide outside, leather inside, zip across the top.
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At a glance
A wide, flat office case for people carrying a 16-inch laptop who do not want a bag that looks like equipment.
A 16-inch laptop with documents and a charger, carried to an office or a meeting. Wide and flat rather than deep.
Rated for a device up to 16 inches — the largest device fit in our laptop range.
Three ways: rolled leather top handles, single shoulder, or crossbody on the detachable strap with its leather shoulder pad.
A genuine leather lining rather than polyester, hand-rubbed colour that keeps developing, and reinforced leather corner panels at the base.
In the real world
Wide, flat and leather-lined, with the colour rubbed in by hand.
01 / Forty-Two Across, Ten Deep
A 16-inch laptop needs width, not depth, so this one is 42 cm across and only 10 cm front to back — the widest bag in our laptop range and the flattest at the same time. A single zip runs the length of the top; there is no flap to lift and nothing to unbuckle. At that depth the case slides between a desk and a chair, goes into an overhead bin edge-on, and stays vertical against the leg instead of swinging.
Width is what fits the machine. Depth is what gets in the way.

Space, considered
The proportions are the point. A 16-inch machine needs width, not depth, and depth is what turns a briefcase into a bag you cannot slide anywhere.
42 cm of width takes a 16-inch laptop flat, with documents and a notebook beside it. At 10 cm deep the case still slides between a desk and a chair or into an overhead bin edge-on.
A hidden zip pocket for a passport or cards, and a zipped interlayer pocket for a charger and cables — kept apart from the screen.
A small pocket for coins, a key or a transit card, plus an open slip pocket on the inner wall for a phone or a folded sheet.
The interior surfaces are hide rather than polyester, so the inside of the bag wears the same way the outside does instead of pilling and tearing first.

02 / Sixteen Inches, and Leather on the Inside
Almost every leather bag in this class is lined in fabric. This one is lined in leather, which costs more, weighs more — 1.3 kg — and changes how the bag ages from the inside out: hide scuffs and darkens where polyester pills, snags and tears at the seams. A 16-inch machine lies flat inside, with a concealed zip pocket for a passport, an interlayer zip pocket for the charger, a coin pocket and an open slip pocket.
The part nobody photographs is usually the part that fails first.

Ways to carry
Rolled leather handles for the room, a detachable strap for everything before it.
Paired soft handles that close together in the hand. On a flat 42 cm case this is the carry that keeps the bag vertical and against the leg.
A single adjustable strap on clip hardware, carrying a wide leather pad — which is what a 16-inch machine plus documents needs on one shoulder. The strap comes off completely.
The same strap lets out to run across the body, so a wide case stays flat against the back instead of swinging off the hip.

Material, not an afterthought
Top-layer cowhide with the colour rubbed in by hand, over a genuine leather lining, with reinforced leather panels at the base corners.
The colour is worked into the hide by hand rather than sprayed, so it runs deeper along the panel seams and around the hardware and lifts across the flat faces. No two cases are finished alike.
The listing specifies leather for the interior lining. It costs more and weighs more than polyester, and it is the reason this case is 1.3 kg — but the inside ages instead of fraying.
Separate leather panels wrap the base corners, which is where a flat case takes its knocks. Grain variation, small scratches and surface irregularities are characteristics of the hide, and the hardware carries light oxidation from hand assembly.

03 / Colour Rubbed In by Hand
The colour here is worked into top-grain cowhide by hand rather than sprayed on, so it pools along the vertical panel seams, around the clip hardware and into the reinforced leather panels at the base corners, and lifts to a warmer tone across the flat faces. Those corner panels are there because a wide flat case takes its knocks at the bottom — against door frames, chair legs, and the floor when you set it down.
Sprayed brown is one tone. Rubbed brown is a range.

Computer bag facts
Specs are based on the current product listing and product image set. Measurements are taken by hand and can vary by 1-2 cm.
