Merlin Torsten TFL D3O Leather Jacket - Black

This is a beautiful jacket - weighty, seemingly extremely well made, smells fab, great venting, nice removable insert and good protection which is pretty invisible from the outside.

Used it a few times now and it is really comfortable - lovely long sleeves which can be rolled back if it's hot and the light rain I experienced just sat on the surface.

All fastenings are really nice quality and the cut is excellent.

I initially ordered a 42. (I'm 6'4" and 90kg so this would normally fit). However, had to go 2 sizes up to a 46 to get the right fit, so best that in mind when ordering. SBS Preston were great, allowing me to return the first and order 2 others to try in store.

The "but..." is a strange one. For a garment that is so excellent, well designed made and executed, the inner label on the insert has a couple of sentences of description which look like it has been written by someone who has no knowledge of the English language & who was given an English dictionary and told to work it out for themselves.

For such a premium product, this is really poor QC. I dropped Merlin a line but they didn't seem interested.

I hope this lack of attention to detail doesn't mean that I find my lovely expensive jacket starts to fall apart any time soon!