S.T. Dupont Le Grand Ping — Monogram 1872, Black

S.T. Dupont Le Grand Ping — Monogram 1872, Black

The Monogram 1872 collection is built around a single premise: S.T. Dupont's founding year, 1872, expressed through the Maison's new monogram — the refreshed logo, direct and purposeful — integrated into a guilloché surface. The motif is identical across the three finishes in the collection. What changes is everything about how it reads. In yellow gold, the Monogram 1872 declares. In palladium, it reveals with cool precision. In black PVD, it does something different: it withdraws just enough to become architecture. The founding monogram, stripped of warmth and metallic flash, resolves into a surface that is more pattern than ornament — the geometry of the guilloché and the form of the logo working together in the one finish that lets the design speak for itself.

Guilloché / The Monogram 1872 Motif

S.T. Dupont's Monogram 1872 guilloché incorporates the new Maison logo — straight, purposeful, proud — into the surface pattern that defines the house's metalwork tradition. On the black lighter, the guilloché operates differently than it does on precious-metal finishes. Without the warmth of gold or the flash of palladium, the facets of the guilloché create shadow and relief instead of shimmer. The monogram pattern becomes three-dimensional in a way that reflective surfaces can obscure: the logo reads as depth, the surrounding texture receding to create a clear foreground. The effect is graphic where yellow gold is opulent — the same motif, a different kind of presence.

Black PVD / Graphic Contrast

Black PVD is a physical vapor deposition finish — a coating process that produces a hard, durable surface without the vulnerability of lacquer. On the Le Grand Ping, it gives the body an absolute quality that chrome and gold cannot match: no warmth, no suggestion, just the geometry of the lighter's form and the pattern worked into it. The black finish is not about concealment. It is about letting the design carry the weight. The Monogram 1872 in black is the most contemporary version of a founding-year statement — the 1872 without ceremony, the monogram as straightforward identity rather than celebration.

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. Opening the lighter produces S.T. Dupont's Perfect Ping — the acoustic signature of the new Grand Dupont format. The mechanism and sound are identical across all three Monogram 1872 finishes; the choice of black is a choice of visual register, not performance. Personalization available up to three characters.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.