It’s an anniversary year for S.T.Dupont. This year marks 75 years since the company was commissioned to create 100 lighters (more on that below) and started a new chapter in the company’s history as a maker of lighters. Perhaps more notably at the 2016 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, this year is the first year in the company’s new distribution agreement with Davidoff of Geneva USA and as such S.T.Dupont was located in the Davidoff booth. For S.T.Dupont’s 75th anniversary of making lighters, the company has created five unique collections in varying levels of both ornateness and price. Four of these collections will begin shipping in September, while Blue Flame Lacquer ships this month. Because of the detail for each piece, a three-month waiting window is required from the time piece is ordered before it will be delivered. 5 Clawed Dragon Lighter The company says it took four people—two carvers, a polisher and a metalsmith—over 550 hours to create this piece. It is based on the Chinese symbol of the dragon and is a collaboration between the French company and Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio. For this, he used obsidian for most of the dragon body and fire agate inside the lighter and ...
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