S.T. Dupont Popoté Le Grand — Red/Yellow Gold

S.T. Dupont Popoté Le Grand — Red/Yellow Gold

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.

Red / Yellow Gold

Red lacquer under the Popoté stamp becomes something restless and alive. The irregular surface fractures the color into depths that pull the eye inward, while the brighter planes catch light and throw it back. The yellow gold finish does not soften this — it intensifies it, adding warmth and weight to a combination that is already impossible to set down. The Red/Yellow Gold Le Grand is the Popoté collection's most immediately striking piece, and likely its most memorable.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.