Chacom Hexagone Straight Apple Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

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.

As the name suggests, the Hexagone was a line of Chacom pipes with a hexagonal shank. They also had interesting stems, ones with two bands of what looks like acrylic, but may perhaps be an exotic wood, such as boxwood. This one is a sandblasted straight apple, whose traditional shape is distinguished by its decidedly non-traditional geometry.

While it is not a model that Chacom produces anymore, this Hexagone is completely unsmoked, with a factory original bowl coating to help ease in its first smokes. It also comes with its original box and sleeve. As with many Chacom pipes, it includes a stinger, but this stinger is easily unscrewed and removed for those who prefer to use their pipes without one.

Details:

Length: 5.7″ / 144.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.46″ / 37.08mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g