Care of Leather-clad pipes like Longchamps

I have a Savinelli Grand prix similar to this, I have leather conditioner for jackets that seems to work fine.

I recently bought an estate leather covered Longchamp pipe, for two reasons. One, I've never had a leather covered pipe, and two, it had an oval bowl, which I've never had either. Set me back less than $10 with shipping, and was rather clean looking. To clean the leather up I considered a lot of what has been discussed above, including using Lexol, but I didn't want to darken the leather. So I wiped it down with a little alcohol, and then treated it like a briar pipe. Lightly buffed it with a little tripoli, white diamond, and then some carnauba wax. I don't know if this was the right thing to do, but it looks nice and smokes just fine. I'm not all that concerned about the looks of the pipe, as it will probably darken and get some dings while smoking it.

Yeah I thought about that, but it was a quick wipe just to get the grime off. I'll see what happens as I smoke it, and if looks like it's getting a little dry and brittle I'll put a little leather treatment on it.

They are good solution if you have any blends that run hot. I have 2 Longchamp estates and a Big Ben Boomer in leather. They all have uber comfortable hand feel. I think the Big Ben got wrapped, as after the first week, it developed 2 stains along its shank (indicating cracks in shank).
I didn't think they wrapped pipes anymore, but it got it out the door or perhaps it was meant for European market. They seem to sell quickly at SP and Ebay. Savinelli examples are sharp looking, albeit somewhat rare.
I have heard in the past that all leathers were wrapped by Longchamp, but I don't know if my Big Ben was, as Boomers are a current production pipe. Unsure as to whether Longchamp wrapped the Savinelli models.