Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Red / Gold

Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Cutter — Nail Polish Red / Gold

There is a logic to the sequence of a cigar session that is fixed regardless of the instruments used to execute it. The cutter comes first, and the cut is the moment that commits the smoker to the session — once the cap is removed, the cigar is open, and the only direction is forward. Red has been the color of that kind of moment across cultures: the color worn in ceremony, carried into significance, used to mark the beginning of things that matter. A red cigar cutter is not a metaphor — it is simply a cutter that understands what it starts.

Nail polish in red achieves what the color demands at the scale of a small object: full chromatic saturation, depth that comes from the layered lacquer medium rather than surface pigment, and a gloss that makes the color visible across the table. This is not a muted or qualified red — it is the red that the medium is capable of, which is to say a red with the same quality as the color that made red lacquer the material of imperial ceremony for three thousand years of East Asian decorative history.

Nail Polish Lacquer

Applied to the cutter body in red, nail polish produces a finish with the chromatic intensity and surface depth the color requires to be itself. The lacquer quality — interior depth rather than surface flatness — gives the red a richness that paint finishes cannot replicate at this scale.

Gold Hardware

Gold finishing is applied to the mechanism, trim, and blade. Red and gold have organized ceremonial objects across every culture that has used both materials, and at the scale of a cigar cutter the relationship is immediate. The blade is sized for standard ring gauges and delivers a clean guillotine cut in a single motion.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.