Legacy Briefcase

Regular price $ 940
Regular price Sale price $ 940

Meeting, airport, coffee shop. The Legacy Briefcase carries a laptop sleeve up to 16 inches, documents, chargers, and daily essentials, with top handles and an adjustable shoulder strap for the commute. We make it in our family workshop in Southern Brazil from full-grain leather, finished with YKK zippers and solid metal hardware.

Color: Espresso

Purchase information

Product details

  • 16-liter capacity for work and travel
  • Open interior fits a laptop sleeve up to 16 inches
  • Top handles and removable shoulder strap
  • Full-grain leather inside and out
  • Vegetable-tanned soleta leather reinforces handles and load-bearing points
  • Weighs 3 lb 5 oz
  • Exterior: Full-grain floater leather (bovine)
  • Handles and load-bearing points: Full-grain vegetable-tanned soleta leather
  • Interior: Suede side of the same leather, unlined
  • Hardware: Solid metal strap hardware and rivets
  • Zipper: YKK zipper with leather pullers and double sliders
  • Available in: Espresso, Cognac, Coal
  • Exterior (W x H x D)
  • 16.14 x 11.81 x 5.12 in
  • 41 x 30 x 13 cm
  • Weight: 3 lb 5 oz / 1.5 kg
  • Capacity: 16 L
  • Fits a laptop sleeve up to 16 inches

CARE

  • Clean with a dry cotton cloth
  • Condition every six months with a neutral or color-matched leather cream
  • If it gets wet, dry in the shade, away from heat or sun

WARRANTY & REPAIR

Covered by our two-year warranty against manufacturing defects. If something fails during that coverage period, send it back and we'll repair or replace it. For wear-and-tear or accidental damage outside warranty, we'll quote the repair at cost (most fixes run $20 to $60).

  • Free standard shipping on all U.S. orders
  • Most orders arrive in 2–5 business days
  • Free U.S. returns within 30 days. See our full policy
  • Orders are typically processed within 1–2 business days
  • Exact delivery options and estimates are shown at checkout
  • Outside the United States or Brazil? Contact Customer Support before ordering

Why we made it

The Legacy Briefcase is for the weeks when work does not fit inside an office. A flight before sunrise, a meeting across town, a coffee with a client before heading back. Clean, structured, and ready for the places work takes you.

Close-up of the metal swivel hook attaching the shoulder strap to the Nordweg Legacy Leather Briefcase in espresso
Hand sliding a smartphone into the side pocket of the Nordweg Legacy Leather Briefcase in espresso

Material honesty

The quality is immediate.

Natural materials with rich texture, real weight, and a warm scent you notice as soon as you open the box.

Full-grain floater leather being handled in the workshop

Full-grain floater body

Soft, substantial floater leather gives the bag its relaxed body: slim when you pack light, fuller when you need more.

Vegetable-tanned soleta leather being pressed in the workshop

Soleta reinforcement

Firm vegetable-tanned leather, the kind used for belts and saddles, placed where strength matters most.

Cognac Legacy backpack open to show the leather interior

Leather inside

No fabric lining to wear out over time. Inside, it is the leather itself: soft to the touch and naturally finished.

Different full-grain leather hides showing natural tone and texture variation

Natural variation

We do not process the leather into sameness. Slight shifts in tone, texture, and marks are part of what makes each piece yours.

Green mountain valley around Picada Café in Southern Brazil Leather worker at the Nordweg workshop in Picada Café, Southern Brazil

Made in Southern Brazil

From a family workshop

Every Nordweg piece comes from our family workshop in Picada Café, in the Serra Gaúcha mountains, where German immigrants brought leatherworking two centuries ago.

Our family has carried that craft for 35 years, and the brand grew out of the workshop, not the other way around. Every bag leaves checked by hand, and if it carries our name, someone here stands behind it.

The Collection

Choose Your Legacy

Work. Travel. Weekend. The pieces worth keeping close.

A complete set for moving well. Fewer pieces, better chosen, for workdays, travel, and everything in between.