Bentley and Dunhill Team Up for Premium Luggage Set

Need that special set of fitted luggage for your Continental GT Speed or Brooklands? Fortunately for you, Bentley and automotive product spe

cialists Dunhill Motorities have teamed up to create a very special five-piece luggage set, made of the highest quality leather, of course.

Dunhill and Bentley have made sure that the design and quality mirrors that a Bentley owner experiences every day inside their car, with trim in knurled aluminum and fluting to match the car's carefully stitched seats. The Bentley brand's stylized “B” adorns the latches.

Altogether Dunhill has made a briefcase, two suitcases, one large and the other smaller, plus a weekend bag and a wash bag.

Bentley has collaborated with other luxury goods makers before, such as Tibaldi, in the creation of some limited edition writing instruments (pens to you and me), one of

which will set you back more than $38,000 USD, and watch maker Breitling, for some of the more exquisite wristwatches available.

The price of the Dunhill luggage set? A cool ?4,300 or $7,565 USD, which might make them only accessible to business magnates like Sir Richard Branson or mega socialites such as Paris Hilton, but both Bentley and Dunhill like to remind us that you get what you pay for.

And if you didn't know (and not many people do), Dunhill has been making motoring accessories since the dawn of the motor car, and Alfred Dunhill even built his own car, the 1912 Dunhill Tweenie. The company was best known, however, for its heavy leather coats, helmets, goggles, car horns, dashboard clocks,

motoring lamps, and trunks.

Alfred Dunhill summarized his retail philosophy in an article written in the summer of 1923, by stating, “My experience in the motorists' trade has convinced me that, if one can exactly meet the desires of a good class of public, time alone is necessary to make the business profitable. Compared with quality, price is relatively unimportant. If I were asked to put in a nutshell the reason for our success, I should say: because we have always had a shop in which we can put our goods to the customer's test hour by hour. The energy we might have expended in advertising to get new customers we devoted to pleasing in the highest degree those we had.” Some things never change.

The luggage set does come with one downside, however.  Who'd ever trust the airlines with it? Better splurge for the private jet too.