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S. T. Dupont - the trade mark, at which that a bagatelle, status, beginning from lighters and cuff links and finishing belts, portfolios and office accessories (every fourth of five lighters of a class lux, on sale in the world at present, belongs to stamp S. T. Dupont). The motto of company S. T. DUPONT sounds adequately and convincingly: «the true glamour is a perfection in trifles».

Company S. T. DUPONT has old (more than centenary) traditions. But these traditions today would not be, if there was no one young man from Savoja with its passion to a photo. This history has begun in 1856, when Francois Tisso-Djupon (the uncle of the founder of the future company) has arrived to Paris to a court yard of the emperor to start the duties of the official portraitist. Soon (in 1865) to Francois its nephew - eighteen-year Simon Tisso-Djupon has joined also. Helping Francois to do portraits of the most successful businessmen and influential politicians of France and having possibility to visit their house, the young man attentively looked narrowly at style of a life succeeding and men of means. Simona the palace life full of shine and magnificence captivates, its ambitious plans include the basis of own company on manufacture of refined accessories.

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In seven years Simon felt ready to open own business and has decided to be guided exclusively by the provided clients. However, in the beginning to the young businessman not too carried: have burnt down the workshops opened by it on manufacturing of carriages, there was a trade in champagne under the stamp «ZHirar and Dupont» more successfully, but nevertheless the success to Simonu has come only after it undertook manufacture of qualitative cases from expensive skin. Production of the company which Simon has named Simon Tissot Dupont, began to be popular at diplomats, lawyers and businessmen. Gradually products S. T. Dupont became more and more magnificent, and the firm has got the status of the supplier of one of the greatest and expensive shops in world Le Louvre.

Dupont does not regret money for search of new techniques in processing of precious metals. Under the guidance of the Chinese scientists he studies in ancient receptions of processing of the varnish which basis is pitch of rare plant Rhus Vernicifera cåìåéñòâà sumao. It and today in small amounts collect on coast of Red River in China and send to France. The Chinese varnish as a finishing material is appreciated at all less, than the covering silver or gold and is considered a sign of prestigiousness and quality of a product. Labour-intensive process of imposing of a varnish allows to reach delightful depth of colour: sumerechno-dark blue, coral, purple, zolotisto-tortoise. Even today in shops on processing of a varnish do not start up visitors and journalists. The secret of processing of a varnish is not opened secret of firm «S. T. Dupont».

In the twentieth years of the last century management of the company has passed to sons Simona - Ljusena and Andre. Manufacture promptly extended, and except new workshops Dupont has opened for the clients a smart show room in which it was possible to meet all production of firm. Cases and the road bags Dupont added with accessories made manually necessary in road, by that moment have really turned to a work of art and have found the world popularity.

In 1929 Ljusen Dupont, presenting the products in New York, became the witness of falling Uoll-Strit and the beginning of a world economic crisis. Brothers Dupont have very seriously reflected on the future of the company and have accepted, as subsequently it has appeared, the wise decision to specialise on the goods for very men of means whom crisis almost has not mentioned.

All has changed with the Second World War beginning: luxury goods have ceased to be in demand, besides there were problems with raw materials approaching for products Dupont. Aspiring to save the company, Ljusen and Andre have tried to master new for Dupont business - manufacture of petrol lighters. The first lighters were issued from enough simple material, were accessible under the price and quickly have found the buyers. In 1941 the company has registered the patent for manufacture of the first gas lighter.

When the political and economic situation in the country was more or less stabilised, the company has started to make again qualitative exclusive production. There is a first gold lighter then also as well as today about 80 % of world sales of expensive lighters it is necessary on a share «S. T. Dupont».

In 1973 there was first ball pen S. T. Dupont, then handles in gold and silver (1975) and in an original Chinese varnish (1976) have followed.

In the seventieth years Dupont has renewed also manufacture with which the company history began, - manufacture of a skin of exclusive quality and manufacturing of products from it. The assortment has extended also: firm letter D began to decorate not only cases, but also every possible purses, purses, organizers, belts etc. There were collections of cuff links, clips and pins for ties, points in expensive frame and that Frenchmen name la bagatelle necessaire (the necessary knickknacks): clips for monetary banknotes, charms, collapsible knives. Approximately at the same time the company has started to make accessories for fans of cigars and now it is considered the recognised leader in manufacture of elegant and qualitative knifes and guillotines for cigars, sigarnyh cases, hjumidorov, say, all those attributes which help to make sacrament of smoking of a cigar more pleasantly and more elegantly.

In 80th years the company has brought the mite in hour business, having created a collection of the hours connecting refined refinement with observance of all old traditions of hour business. Saving truly French elegance of style Dupont in design of hours, the company makes them in Switzerland. Hours Dupont are equipped by the Swiss mechanism (ETA), the case, and sometimes and a bracelet or a thong of Swiss "origin". In Mecca the hour industry there pass also definitive assemblage, adjustment and control tests for quality. In a word, to all those requirements which are necessarily necessary for observing that hours had the right to be decorated words Swiss Made, naruchnye devices from Dupont quite respond. By the way, the inscription confirming the Swiss origin of hours on products Dupont, is often not on a dial, and on a back cover of the case. The case of hours Dupont can be executed from the polished steel or 18-karatnogo gold.

In 1998 there is a first aroma under name S. T. Dupont. And the same year was marked by the major event in the world of manufacturers and consumers of luxury goods: company S. T. DUPONT - the manufacturer leather and jewels of the highest class - has entered a circle of masters of haute couture.

Having saved the century traditions, S. T. DUPONT offers the collections of a ready dress made of noble natural fabrics and the toilet accessories, capable to captivate and young … and not so the young. Faultless combinations of cashmere and silk, flax and a clap, and also simple, but the original breed added with beautiful furnish, distinguish creations S. T. DUPONT, a the high spirit of individuality inherent in them and accurately expressed style should induce those who appreciates beautiful things, to get to itself clothes from S. T. DUPONT.

Such collection of clothes of the high quality, completely in harmony with traditions of the company, is capable to serve well its assured of the right to individuality to the owner, is thin feeling a spirit of the age, but indifferent to fleeting shine of a simple fashion. Art taste of couturier S. T. DUPONT allows them to combine in the products the present and tradition.

The frames which are let out under stamp S. T. Dupont to confuse with others it is difficult. Masterly executed from monela and the silvered nickel of a frame are decorated by a gold covering: 3,2 microns of yellow gold and 0,25 microns radiuma. The ancient way of an ornament of jewels is applied To furnish of frames - «metal gushllosh» and «a royal varnish». Frames from S. T. Dupont on a level with other products of this stamp embody representations about the highest quality, refinement and elegance.

The lucky beggars possessing products S. T. DUPONT, similar, also do not suspect, how much carefulness and ability is necessary to reach so high degree of perfection. It is difficult to present, how much experience is saved up by the masters of the company combining in the job most high technologies with more traditional craft receptions. Thanks to intense work of the workers workshops Faverzh - heart and soul of company S. T. DUPONT-became for these years modern, vysokoorganizovannym the industrial enterprise. A merit of these people is also that the most complicated technologies have been placed in the service of idea of absolute quality adjoining on obsession.

Today company Dupont makes about 1000 names of various products, 80 which % are exported.

Six thousand points of sale of production S. T. DUPONT in 130 countries of the world. Six branches of the company - in Beneljukse, Switzerland, Western Ger manias, the Great Britain, Italy and Japan - and also a network of agencies in the large states.

For the maximum convenience of the buyers company S. T. DUPONT has created also a network from hundred sixty centres on maintenance service of the things got at it.