Stefano Ricci SR Dual Flame Lighter & Cigar Cutter Kit — Crocodile Black / Gold

Stefano Ricci SR Dual Flame Lighter & Cigar Cutter Kit — Crocodile Black / Gold

Black-dyed crocodile leather is the most formal version of an already exceptional material. Genuine crocodile belly skin — CITES-regulated from farm to finished good, fine-scaled, with the geometric regularity of the belly section's natural scale pattern — takes black dye in a way that makes the scale structure the primary visual event: the color is total, the surface is deep, and the geometric arrangement of the raised scutes and the grooves between them is visible as texture and dimension rather than color variation. Against the absolute depth of black-dyed crocodile, gold hardware is a precise, warm counterpoint — the metal catching light that the leather absorbs, each material defining what the other is.

Stefano Ricci builds a complete kit around this combination: dual flame lighter, matching SR cigar cutter, and leather box, presented as a unified set in which every element is finished identically. The lighter and cutter share the same black crocodile leather and gold hardware; the leather box holds both instruments. The kit addresses the two instruments that begin every cigar session — the cut and the light — and resolves both to the same material standard.

Black Crocodile Leather

The black crocodile leather on both the lighter and cutter is genuine crocodile belly skin, dyed black and finished to preserve the full geometric depth of the scale pattern. The belly section is the finest-scaled portion of the skin, with the most regular arrangement of scutes — each defined by natural grooves, each varying slightly from its neighbors, the whole surface present as a controlled geometric pattern that black makes more legible rather than less. CITES documentation accompanies the material at every stage from farm to finished good.

Gold Finishing

Gold finishing on the hardware — the lighter jets, the cutter blade mechanism, the closures and accents — provides the warm, precise counterpoint that black crocodile requires. The contrast between the deep black of the leather and the reflective warmth of the gold is what organizes the object visually: each material more itself in the presence of the other.

Leather Box

The leather box presents and houses both instruments — lighter and cutter together, the complete kit in a single case designed for the purpose. The box closes the composition and makes the set appropriate for gifting or for display in the smoking room between sessions.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.