Rimowa Chess Attache.

 

The luxury travel chess set selection available to those particularly interested in playing chess on the move in the finest possible style is rather limited.  To our mind the only serious option currently on the market is the Hermes Samarcande chess set, which costs around £2600 at time of writing, and is made entirely from wood.  For a limited time, consumers interested now have another option from Rimowa, the Chess Attache.

Made entirely from Rimowa's signature aluminium, it contains a leather covered wooden and aluminium chess board, and rather unique looking aluminium chess pieces, and costs an impressive £4300.

Frankly, there's not much to see here, this is definitely an unusual piece, but we feel for travel it's not practical, as the case measures 35cm x 41.5cm. x 8.5cm.  The reason for it being so large, is that it is simply Rimowa's standard business attache case, which retails for £1500.  So what you're really getting here is a Rimowa attache case with an unusual interior.   This could be regarded as a bargain, since you can remove the chess stuff, but it doesn't really look like it can be removed, so this sees like a terrible waste of a good attache case to us.

However, the chess set is quite attractive, and we haven't seen one with such an interesting design before.  So if you're in the market for an ultra high-end chess set for home, this fits the bill.  But for goodness ske don't try taking it away with you as a portable travel set,  it will just use up your baggage allowance, and frankly even if your flying by jet it still takes up too much space.