Butz Choquin Fregate 1604 Straight Billiard Briar Pipe

• Overall Length: 135mm
• Overall Height: 49mm
• Bowl Height: 49mm
• Bowl Diameter: 37mm
• Bore: 20mm
• Weight: 41g
• Branded Cloth Pipe Bag
• Gift Boxed

Butz-Choquin Frégate 1604 Briar Pipe The straight billiard is the shape that built Saint-Claude’s reputation, and the Frégate 1604 keeps faith with that lineage. It’s a clean-lined, honest design — the kind of pipe that proves simplicity doesn’t mean plain. The clear acrylic stem gives a faint nod to modern design, but the heart of it is old Jura briar, shaped in the same town that’s been carving pipes since Napoleon III.

Butz-Choquin’s been in the trade since 1858, and their workshop still treats each piece as a working tool first, a showpiece second. The 9 mm filter cools the smoke without dulling the flavour, and the proportion between bowl and shank is exactly what a billiard should be. It’s steady, well-balanced, and made by people who understand that good form is a matter of geometry as much as grace.