Please meet a renewed Noe. All vachetta leather parts were remade from new leather. See the “before” photos, the old leather was falling apart. That what happens to vachetta leather with time, it dries, cracks and falls apart. Unlike the monogram canvas, that is so durable that it looks like new after 4 decades. I really like the way it turned out, new and shiny. One rivet is original, another one is not (it went missing…please come back, rivet, your home looks so nice now!).