AMAZING LIGHTER COLLECTION

We’ll leave it to you decide whether or not you should carry a lighter, a question we’ve addressed elsewhere. Assuming that you carry one already, or have for whatever reason resolved to start carrying one, let’s get down to brass tacks about which lighter should a man carry.

If you are going to carry a lighter, either for personal use or for occasions of opportunity, carry the best one you can comfortably afford to lose. If you are not already long accustomed to having a lighter in your pocket, there’s a good chance you’ll quickly lose the first one you start carrying.
As with watches, there’s no need to spend more than is necessary to have a lighter that works well and functions reliably. Zippo is to lighters what Timex is to watches, and a man never goes wrong with either brand so long as he sticks to traditional models. A sturdy, conventional, everyday-use Timex wristwatch should not cost more than $50; a sturdy, conventional, every-day use Zippo: $15. Unless you intend to go significantly upmarket, stick with Zippos, which have a lifetime replace/repair guarantee.
If you take your accessorizing seriously – so much so that you switch watches and even your pens to match your look du jour – then why not have a small collection of quality accessory-lighters from which to choose? But then again, if you’re both a smoker and the kind of man who coordinates pens and watches with his ensemble, you probably didn’t need to be told this. On the other hand, just as simpler men with fewer pretensions have a watch, so too do some men prefer to have a lighter. There’s something admirable and perhaps even honorable about this.