Butz Choquin Mirage 1789 Briar Smoking Pipe

• Overall Length: 130mm
• Overall Height: 55mm
• Bowl Height: 42mm
• Bowl Diameter: 42mm
• Bore: 18mm
• Filter: 9mm with Adapter
• Weight: 54g
• Gift Boxed

Here’s a handsome piece of French craft that’s got a bit of swagger to it. The Butz-Choquin Mirage 1789 is a bent apple that looks like it’s been polished by a decade of good conversation. The grain gleams like fresh conker wood in autumn light, while that dark marbled acrylic stem keeps things quietly modern.

Saint-Claude’s been turning out briars since Napoleon was still trying to take over the world, and this one shows why. It’s got that perfect curve that sits in the hand like it was made for it, and a bowl that encourages a long, thoughtful smoke — the kind you take when you’re deciding whether to mow the lawn or pour another dram.

If you like a pipe that bridges the old and the new — and looks like it’s seen a bit of both — this Mirage 1789’s a cracking choice.