Chacom Champs Elysees 871 Smooth Author Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Chacom is one of France’s most historic and iconic makes. Its founders, the Comoy family, began their career as boxwood pipe-makers in the early 1800s, before briar had even been discovered, with Henri Comoy (of Comoy’s fame) emigrating to England in 1879 and founding the country’s first briar pipe factory. In 1922, Henri and his nephews, the Chapuis, founded the Chapuis Comoy pipe factory in Saint-Claude, France, which shortly after began producing pipes bearing the partnered families’ names—“Cha” for Chapuis, and “Com” for Comoy. Chacom has been the biggest name in French pipes ever since.

The Champs-Élysées is a luxurious locale in Paris, one whose name alone is evocative within French culture for the finer things in life—fine art, high fashion, good coffee, and so on. So, quite naturally, Chacom’s Champs Elysees line is a rather fine pipe within the make’s portfolio. Distinguished by its dark, smoky finish and accents of briar and chrome, it has something of a “dress pipe” aesthetic to it—the kind of pipe that makes for suitable company while sampling the delights of a classy Parisian cafe, for example.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. It comes with its original box.

Details:

Length: 6.3″ / 160.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.35″ / 34.29mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 60g