S.T. Dupont Le Grand Ping — Monogram 1872, Yellow Gold

S.T. Dupont Le Grand Ping — Monogram 1872, Yellow Gold

The Monogram 1872 collection begins with a date. In 1872, Simon Tissot-Dupont founded the Maison that would become S.T. Dupont — a year that is not incidental, but the origin of everything the house has made since: the lighters, the leather goods, the writing instruments, and the expertise in metalwork that has made those objects into something more than tools. The Monogram 1872 collection takes that founding year and places it at the center of the design, incorporating S.T. Dupont's new Maison monogram — the refreshed logo, straight, purposeful, and proud — into a guilloché surface that has been part of the Dupont vocabulary for decades. The result is not nostalgia. It is identity: the founding year expressed in the forms and techniques the house has always used.

Guilloché / The Monogram 1872 Motif

The Monogram 1872 lighter carries S.T. Dupont's founding monogram worked into the guilloché of the body — the new Maison logo, direct and unambiguous, integrated into a surface pattern that gives it texture and structure. Guilloché on an S.T. Dupont lighter is never merely decorative: it is the technique that defines the house's identity in metalwork, the method by which flat metal becomes a surface with depth, shadow, and precision. The Monogram 1872 motif adds to that surface the mark of origin — the signature that tells you exactly where this lighter comes from, and how long it has been made this way.

Yellow Gold / Heritage Expression

In yellow gold, the Monogram 1872 motif reads with warmth. The guilloché catches the light in the tonal range that yellow gold provides — the facets returning a warm shimmer, the monogram pattern visible with the richness that this finish has always brought to the Dupont surface. Yellow gold has been the Maison's primary precious-finish register since the beginning. On the Monogram 1872 lighter, it is the appropriate choice: the founding year expressed in the finish most associated with S.T. Dupont's heritage. Gold does not suggest — it declares. The monogram in yellow gold is the collection's most emphatic version.

Dual Ignition / The Perfect Ping

The Le Grand Ping lighter features S.T. Dupont's dual ignition system — soft yellow flame or blue torch flame, selectable from a single instrument. This is the Le Grand's defining technical proposition: a lighter that adapts to what is being lit, whether that is a cigarette requiring a soft flame or a cigar that demands something more direct. Opening the lighter produces S.T. Dupont's Perfect Ping — the acoustic signature of the new Grand Dupont format, the sound that marks the moment of use. Personalization available up to three characters.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.