It's been my experience that the leather on the San Marco Regals from the last five or six years since they started making them again isn't what it used to be back in the day...I've owned two of the recent ones and the covers on both of them combined haven't lasted as long as the Regal I bought in the mid-1990s...
I'd be interested if anyone has experience with both the Regal and the Okami and could speak to the comfort and overall construction quality of the Okami relative to the Regal...