Hi swissaire.

After reading your post, I realized that I failed to mention about good side of Rimowa other than its look, so some reader might think most of Rimowa users are under heavy influence of lookism.

It was not my intention so I decided to write down about its bright side other than its look. In my POV, no zippers mean better protection of contents from theft since most zippers are vulnerable to ballpoint pen stabbing(I think there is no point of locking the luggage up in order to secure contents from thieves if they have zippers). And zippers tend to fail first because they are usually one of the weakest part of luggage. I think latches of Topas are stronger than most zippers, so that's an upside too.

In case of putting some weight over the bag, It also has an advantage of keeping the weak-to-pressure fragile contents intact over typical Polycarbonate or ABS hardside bags since Topas is metal-based hardside luggage which means less weight will be transfered to the contents of the bag.

These are prime reasons why I bought my Rimowa(other than its look) and why most of them are alloy. But it's not why i have so many of them. I have a habit of wasting my money to collect whatever items I hooked up with, and that's one of two reasons I bought over 30 Rimowas over last decade. (I once hooked up with high performance tire, and ended up with 60 of tires in my garage) The other reason is its durability.