S.T. Dupont Popoté Le Grand — Black/Palladium

S.T. Dupont Popoté Le Grand — Black/Palladium

The Popoté technique demands space to be fully appreciated. Le Grand provides it.

The Popoté Technique

Dating to 1953 in S.T. Dupont's Parisian atelier, the Popoté is among the Maison's most distinctive and storied decorative methods. Using a special stamp, a craftsman applies irregular touches to the lacquer surface — each gesture at once precise and deliberately random. The result is a surface that catches light differently from every angle, appearing almost to vibrate, with a depth and dimensionality that no flat lacquer can achieve. The process is the same for every piece; the result is different every time. No two Popoté lighters are identical.

Le Grand

S.T. Dupont's Le Grand is the Maison's larger-format lighter — more generous in the hand, more commanding on the desk, and offering a broader canvas for the decorative techniques that define S.T. Dupont's craftsmanship. On the Le Grand, the Popoté effect is amplified: a larger surface means more of the technique's characteristic depth and movement, more planes of shifting color, more of the irregular texture that makes this method impossible to replicate. The lighter becomes an object of sustained contemplation as well as daily use.

Black / Palladium

The Black/Palladium combination is the Popoté at its most powerful. The deep black lacquer gives the hand-stamped surface the contrast it needs to reveal its full complexity, while the cool palladium finish frames it with quiet authority. This is a lighter built to sit on a desk and hold attention — and it will.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.