Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Black / Gold

Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Black / Gold

A cigar cutter is an instrument before it is an object — its quality is established first by how it cuts, and everything else follows from that. The cut that opens a cigar should be clean, even, and executed at the correct depth: enough to open the cap fully across its diameter, not so much as to compromise the binder beneath or cause the wrapper to unravel. An instrument that executes this correctly, consistently, and without effort is a cigar cutter that works. The question of what it looks like is secondary, but in the hands of Stefano Ricci it is not irrelevant.

The nail polish finish on this cutter is black — the most uncompromising option in the collection, and the one that has the longest history in objects of precision. Black-lacquered instruments have appeared in every tradition that placed value on tools: Japanese sword furniture, European scientific instrument cases, the housings of precision optical equipment. The connection between black lacquer and the seriousness of function is not arbitrary; it reflects the way the finish communicates that the object means what it does.

Nail Polish Lacquer

Nail polish is applied to the cutter body because it achieves chromatic depth and surface quality at exactly the scale a cutter requires. The black it produces is deep rather than flat — color with interior dimension, a surface that reads as glossy and deliberate rather than matte and utilitarian. Applied to a cutter that handles beautifully, it gives the instrument the finish its function deserves.

Gold Hardware

Gold finishing is applied to the mechanism, trim, and blade. Against the black lacquer body, the gold hardware produces the contrast that has organized decorative objects in this combination since the ancient world — warm metal against cool depth. The blade is sized for standard ring gauges and delivers a clean, even cut in a single controlled motion.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.