The last thing you put on before the cabin lights dim. The first thing you take off when the wheels touch. In between: five hours of black, soft enough that you forget you're wearing it.
| Dimensions | 21 × 9.5 cm · adjustable strap 46–62 cm (8.3 × 3.7 in · strap 18.1–24.4 in) |
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| Capacity | One quiet hour. Then four more. |
| Weight | 28 g |
| Leather | Chocolate Tuscan saddle binding · 0.9 mm |
| Hardware | Brushed-satin gold slider, signed SOLTA · Vicenza |
| Face | 23-momme mulberry silk, champagne ground · woven near Como |
| Fill | Lightly padded with cotton wadding · contours over the nose bridge |
| Strap | Adjustable elastic in oat silk · sits flat across the back of the head, not over the ear |
| Edges | Hand-bound chocolate leather, saddle-stitched |
Folds flat into the front pocket of Il Dopp, the inner sleeve of a jacket, or the seat-back pocket on every long-haul carrier we've flown.
Mulberry silk because it sits cool against the eyelid even after eight hours of cabin air. Leather-bound because the silk would fray at the edge after a year of being folded into the dopp kit. Lightly padded over the bridge of the nose because every other eye mask either presses your sinuses or lets cabin light in at the bottom edge.
Buttero saddle hide, vegetable-tanned over forty days in oak and chestnut bark. The same tannery has been working the Arno since 1947; the same hide stiffens, then softens, then darkens with the years.
Solid brass, sand-cast and brushed to a satin gold finish in a four-person workshop outside Vicenza. No plating — so it patinas rather than peels.
A heavy oat twill woven on the same looms that supply the Milanese tailoring houses. Removable, washable, replaceable — included spare, sent with every piece.
Three or four trips. Buttero starts firm — that's what holds the shape — then softens around the things you carry. After a year it will have darkened roughly half a tone and started to show the marks of your travel. That is the point.
Wipe with a barely damp cloth. Once a season, a thin coat of clear leather balm — we ship a small tin with every order. Do not use saddle soap, alcohol wipes, or anything labelled "leather cleaner" from a supermarket.
Post it back to Sorrento and we will repair it — re-stitching, re-burnishing edges, replacing hardware — for as long as the piece exists. Return shipping on us within the first five years; at cost after that. The atelier that made it is the atelier that fixes it.
Yes — up to four characters, blind-debossed. Free of charge. Add three working days to dispatch.
Posted from Sorrento by DHL Express, fully insured and tracked. Duties and import VAT are included in the price for the EU, UK, US, Switzerland, UAE, Singapore, Australia, Canada, and Japan. 2–4 working days to most addresses.
30 days, unused, in the original Sorrento box. We refund in full including the outbound shipping. Monogrammed pieces are final sale.
Yes. Cut, stitched, edge-burnished and finished by a team of three in our Sorrento atelier. Every piece is signed and numbered against the run.
All six pieces — passport, dopp, card holder, tech pouch, luggage tag, silk eye mask — cut from the same Buttero hide so the colour reads as one object. Hand-wrapped in our gold-foiled Sorrento box with a letterpressed bon voyage note.
€795 · saves €155 against buying piece by piece.