- All season
- 100% natural product, automatic activation, odorless.
The Urbi Winter gloves are all leather — pigskin grain on the palm, pigskin split on the back — with a plush lining and an elasticated cuff that closes the way to cold air. Their contact cold is certified at level 3 of 4, the highest in our glove range. Sizes 9 to 11.
The Urbi Winter gloves are made entirely of leather: pigskin grain on the palm, where the hand grips and rubs, and pigskin split on the back, which is more supple. Inside, a plush lining — a long-pile fabric on a woven backing, which holds a great deal of air and does not flatten the way a knit does. The elasticated cuff closes the way to cold air without gripping. That build is what explains the result: contact cold certified at level 3 of 4, the highest in our glove range. Sizes 9, 10 and 11.
On contact cold, lined leather beats coated knit, and the gap shows in the marking: level 3 against level 2. This is the glove you reach for when the day is spent gripping cold metal. Its limit is written plainly by the manufacturer: dry environments. In rain or slush, leather soaks up water and loses exactly what makes it worth having.
Two performance standards apply to this glove, and each figure stands for one test. An X means the test was not carried out, or the level was not reached.
EN 511, cold hazards — X 3 X
EN 388, mechanical hazards — 3 2 2 2 X
The useful reading fits in one sentence: this glove deals with the cold you touch, not the cold you breathe. It is made for the hand that grips, not for the still hand exposed to freezing air.
Because they carry the best contact cold level in our glove range: 3 of 4, against 2 for the coated knit models. On a job where the hand grips cold metal all day, that is the gap you feel most.
And because leather lasts where a coating eventually cracks. Provided it stays in its element: dry, or slightly damp.
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