Testing headphones and wallets are about my favorite things. Chester Mox is a new start-up in the hand crafted leather goods movement. Their #31 double snap wallet carries a clean 100% Chromexcel Tan Horween Leather finish. The leather is a bit thinner than most Horween leather wallets I have used, but at the end of the day, it is indeed Horween. Stamped with their mark on the front and a great gift for both guys and gals. And, yes, the marks you see on the top side of the #31 are from our actual use. Buff ‘em out with your thumb.
Photography: Jeff Carvalho/Selectism.com
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I’ve been looking for a snap wallet for a long time and this piece looks perfect, I just placed my order.
Ah, this is that brand that has been busy blatantly ripping MAKR.
Distinctly bad juju…
I dont feel bad for makr ,they are overpriced
Yes, when they stop ripping off MAKR, I’ll start caring about what they produce.
@ Norbert. Are you referring to MAKR Carry Goods? I didn’t know about them but I just compared the two sites and I don’t quite see what you are talking about, there is only like one style that looks similar and the rest are fabric bags, however the prices on the leather goods are REALLY different CM seems a lot cheaper but I might have the wrong MAKR.
This brand rips off designs from Makr as well as others. Nothing original at all. And @joshua are you serious? His logo is a direct copy of the Makr Carry Goods logo, its positioned in the same place on his wallets and sews them almost identically. I believe this brand that showed up out of nowhere used to be called Voodoo studios, who directly stole from Makr and others. Dudes a joke.
This is my personal experience with both companies.
IMHO, CM has great quality products with crappy pictures. I just received my #31 wallet today and it exceeded my expectations by far. The leather was nice and shiny, stitching was straight and clean, I just couldn’t believe the ridiculous low price. On the other hand, my bison flap wallet purchased two years ago from MAKR ($90.00), arrived with a very “bushy” leather and giving the appearance to be some leftover material. I send them an email to let them know of my disappointment more than to return it (since I have a personal policy against returning merchandise *long story*); they replied letting me know that it was the natural look of bison, and since I’m not a leather expert I took their word for it but it didn’t feel right regardless.
re: Nathan Hand:
Respectfully, you are wildly and somewhat venomously overstating your case. These two brands make hand-sewn, basic leather wallets—pretty simplistic objects in terms of design, unlike, for example, sneakers where there are a million design decisions being made on each boot. There are certainly some similarities but no more so than there are between two makers of steel scissors or of navy blue wool socks. And if you think MAKR is the first to make this style wallet—or to sew it the way they do, or place their logo where they do; if you’re somehow suggesting they “own” that design or that style—well, you should consider a product design class. Or maybe even just read a book for once in your life. I hate ignorant fucks like you who just wanna hate and don’t know or do shit themselves. And as for the logo, you are, once again, almost entirely mistaken and, once again, display the absence of any real or nuanced understanding about design, identity, type, branding, etc. The two logos are only similar in that they both use serif faces—albeit, two very different serif faces (MAKR actually uses an all caps and ital face). But saying that makes them the same is like saying the Apple and Microsoft logos are the same because they both use sans serif faces. More to the point, even despite being serif faces, they feel rather different—the MAKR mark being the more precious of the two and the Chester mark being the richer and more visual. As for both brands positioning their logos in the same place, that’s just too sophomoric to even comment on. I will say this: the one thing Chester didn’t rip off from MAKR is their pretension and ridiculous pricing shame. But have fun shopping there. Maybe someday you should actually learn to use that hand for something other than masturbatory opinion mongering. [edited]
Agree with Nathan. Clearly a MAKR ripoff. I did not need to read a book to figure it out.