Unfortunately, the joy of my purchase is slightly clouded, because already after a short period of use of less than two weeks, the first closing button has gone. The closing buttons are riveted through the leather on the sides of the bag before the bag lining is sewn on, so that they do not interfere even from the inside. The big disadvantage: if one breaks, the bag just can not be closed completely.
I bought the bag for the second time after the first (which I had over 10 years) broke. It has just a very nice size and it has served me well. The rivet buttons also broke on the first one, but that lasted almost two years at the time and I then used the bag for another eight years with metal buttons I sewed on myself (plastic thread) and counter button from the inside (until the lining finally disintegrated now).
I wrote an email to the company on 20.09.2023 about this, which unfortunately remained unanswered. Perhaps the current problem can now be solved in this way.
S. Schilling, Berlin