Sorry to be geeky. I know zips aren’t a very sexy subject (or are they?).

But I thought you’d like to know that all of ours are made by a Swiss manufacturer called RiRi, who make the best quality zips in the world.

Each ‘tooth’ is individually stamped from Tombac, a brass alloy.

The teeth are then polished for 18 hours, ensuring there are absolutely no rough edges either on the inside or on the outside. (Run your finger along both sides of a zip to see what I mean). They are then washed for 6 hours to remove any residue from the teeth.
Both of these rather long-winded processes ensures these zips run super-smooth.

They are then electroplated to achieve a quality finish that matches the solid brass pieces in our collection.

The tape is made from yarn-spun polyester, giving it a natural look and feel while maintaining a rip-proof and rot-proof strength. It is then dyed to match our leathers.

RiRi say: “Clients come to us because we are the Rolls-Royce of zips”.
More intriguing is: “The man behind Riri was Swiss jurist Martin Othmar Winterhalter. In 1923, he managed to find solutions to produce zips on an industrial basis.
After becoming obsessed with seeing uses for zips just about everywhere, including streets, viaducts and palaces, Winterhalter ended up by being unceremoniously abducted and taken to the mad house.”

I think I’d better stop thinking about zips — zipidy-do-da…