Thanks. That's quite good compared to the likes of Hermes, but still steep. I might get in touch with him for small accessories in calf though.
his site says 'saddle stitched', and (I may be totally wrong on this), a true saddle stitch is done by hand. based on one of the pictures on the site it looks like this is indeed how he stitches. I can tell you right off the bat that a fully hand-stitched bag takes dozens and dozens of hours. I have no idea if Hermes and the like do their bags completely stitched by hand but I doubt it