Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Green / Gold

Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Green / Gold

Green is the least predictable of the five colors in this collection. Black is classic. Red is ceremonial. Blue is precise. Orange is warm. Green is something else — the color of the natural world at full abundance, of malachite and emerald, of the verdant and the unexpected. On a cigar cutter it arrives without precedent: there is no tradition of green cigar cutters to reference, no established color language for what green means in this context. What it means is exactly what the person who chooses it intends it to mean, which is a quality that only the genuinely unusual object can offer.

The nail polish green on this cutter is not a hedge toward olive or sage — it is fully committed to the chromatic register of the color, applied in the layered lacquer medium that gives it depth and saturation at the scale of a small instrument. Against gold hardware, the green has the warm-cool contrast that organizes color relationships across decorative history: the cool, verdant body and the warm, precise metal producing a reading that is distinctive without being restless.

Nail Polish Lacquer

Green nail polish is applied to the cutter body for maximum chromatic depth. The lacquer medium builds the color in layers, producing a surface with interior dimension rather than flat surface pigment — green that responds to light with richness and holds its position with the durability the medium is formulated to provide.

Gold Hardware

Gold finishing is applied to the mechanism, trim, and blade. The warm gold and the cool green produce a contrast that gives each material more definition than it would have in the presence of a tonally adjacent metal. The blade is sized for standard ring gauges and delivers a clean, even guillotine cut in a single motion.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.