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LightersAt first glance, it seems yet another luxury cigar-briquet; but on the inside, that slim Caran d’Ache lighter has more in common with a handmade super-car than your standard issue Bic. It starts life as a solid block of brass, milled out and packed with mechanisms unheard of in a run-ofthe- mill lighter, including a spare fuel tank and a flame that projects at an angle, for lighting that Fonseca without undue neck contortions (also useful for pipe smokers).
“Our lighters are different; they have 84
parts,” explains Bruno Loehrer, head of Caran
d’Ache’s American distribution. But while the
Swiss company (known primarily for ultra-quality
pens and mechanical pencils) has been selling
its high-end flamethrowers for over two decades
in Europe to Japan, they’ve been conspicuously
absent stateside thanks to concerns about lawsuithappy
idiots. That’s starting to change: customers
can now acquire the lighters here. Just try to resist
buying a Ferrari worth of pens before you torch
up.
High Light
There are upscale lighters, and then there’s this:
Hot RodYou wouldn’t purchase a vehicle – even a limited-edition one with a 3.4-liter, six-cylinder flat engine and a sleek design – just to get your hands on a special edition lighter, but the all-black P’3630 lighter makes it awfully tempting.
The zinc/brass flame-thrower – along with 14 other products, including belt, jacket and laptop case – comes as part of the promotion for the special-edition model Cayman S Porsche Design Edition 1. Integrated into the lighter’s 80-gram twin body is a patented CircularFlame-nozzle aperture (apparently for safe use in all weather conditions, including monsoons), a Piezo ignition system, and a window for level control. The P’3630 costs $95,015 – cool car included – and will be available to those in the U.S. starting in November 2008.
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