Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Blue / Gold

Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Blue / Gold

In the world of precision instruments — scientific equipment, navigational tools, watchmaking components — blue has a particular standing. Blued steel, produced by controlled oxidation of polished metal, has been used in watch hands, compass needles, and gun components for centuries because the process hardens the surface and produces a color that reads as precise, reliable, and finished in a specific way. The association between blue and precision is not accidental; it accumulated through the long history of tools whose function required both quality and legibility.

Stefano Ricci brings blue to a cigar cutter through nail polish — a medium that achieves the depth and saturation the color needs at the small scale an instrument like this occupies. The result is a blue that is vivid without being restless, chromatic without competing with the function of the object it finishes. Against gold hardware, the blue has the contrast that its cooler tonal range creates in the presence of a warm metal: not tension, but definition — each material more clearly itself in the presence of the other.

Nail Polish Lacquer

Nail polish is formulated for maximum color depth and surface gloss in small applications. Applied to the cutter body, it produces a finish that has the interior quality of lacquer rather than the flatness of paint — blue with depth, a surface that responds to light with a richness appropriate to the quality of the instrument.

Gold Hardware

Gold finishing is applied to the mechanism, trim, and blade throughout. The blade is sized for standard ring gauges and cuts cleanly across the full diameter of the cap in a single motion. The warm gold hardware and the cool blue lacquer body occupy different positions on the temperature register of color, and the relationship between them is as clear at the scale of a cutter in the hand as it is in objects ten times larger.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.