Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Tube — Calf Leather / Gold

Stefano Ricci SR Cigar Tube — Calf Leather / Gold

There is a distinction between the cigar case and the cigar tube that goes beyond form. A case carries cigars — a quantity for a session, selected before departure, held for the occasion ahead. A tube carries a cigar — the specific one, the chosen one, the cigar that is the point of the evening rather than one of several options. The tube is a more deliberate object than the case: it addresses itself to a single cigar, protects it completely, and communicates through its form that the cigar inside it has been selected rather than simply packed.

Stefano Ricci builds the SR cigar tube from genuine calf leather — the same fine-grained material standard that defines the SR leather goods line. Calfskin is the benchmark of luxury leather accessories: harvested young, before the hide develops the coarser texture of mature cattle leather, and finished to a surface that is smooth, supple, and durable in ways that coarser hides cannot match. On a cigar tube, where the leather wraps a structural form rather than being constructed into a flat object, the quality of the calfskin is present in how the tube feels in the hand — the suppleness of the leather, the evenness of the finish, the weight of a well-made object that is smaller than it feels.

Genuine Calf Leather

The calf leather on the SR cigar tube is fine-grained and smooth-finished — the surface quality of a material chosen for the top tier of the leather goods hierarchy. The tube holds a single cigar securely, the interior dimensioned to protect the wrapper from the pressure and moisture loss that an unprotected cigar in a jacket pocket would experience. The leather body protects from the outside while the fit protects from within.

Brass Accessories / Gold Finishing

The brass accessories — the fittings that complete the tube structure — are finished in gold. Brass is the right material for the functional elements of a cigar tube: dense, precise, and with the weight that gives a luxury object its sense of purpose. Gold finishing on the brass brings the tube into the warm register of the SR gold accessories line, the metal and the calf leather sharing the warm tonal family that defines the gold series across lighter, cutter, and case.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.