Bentley boutique

Bentley will be opening shop at the Geneva show next month with a range of branded merchandise from the Bentley collection, including some designed exclusively for the show.

If you’re heading over there, be sure to take some extra cash – quite a bit of extra cash actually – to select from a range of products including Breitling watches, Tibaldi pens, Stockinger safes, Estede eyewear and zai skis.

Plus of course sterling silver cufflinks hand-made in England, silk ties, pure merino wool accessories, hand-stitched gloves, model cars and a range of classic clothing and caps.

‘zai for Bentley’ Skis

The new, Limited Edition “zai for Bentley” skis will be showcased at the Geneva Motor Show this year.

These ‘one-of-a-kind’ Supersport skis are entirely handmade in Switzerland. The skis, poles and ski bag have been designed exclusively for Bentley, with design input from Bentley’s own styling team and will be a limited edition of 250 numbered pairs. Prices start at just under $10,000.

Estede Eyewear

Crewe design teams have been working with Austrian eyewear manufacturer, Estede, to produce a limited edition, high-end range of sunglasses and frames.

The frames are available in two different sizes, using precious metals and innovative surface treatments: silver palladium, 18 carat gold and platinum.

Pricing is approximately $1900 for Silver palladium, $5500 for the 18 carat gold and $15,500 for platinum.

‘Tibaldi for Bentley’

Tibaldi was Italy’s first ever manufacturer of fountain pens, founded in 1916. Phi – the concept known as the Divine Proportion – informs every aspect of the structure of all Tibaldi pens apparently, and that includes the proportion between the pen’s cap and the visible portion of the barrel when the pen is closed.

They are marking a range of pens for Bentley, including the flagship, Mulsanne. A Limited Edition fountain pen and roller ball (90 of each style and veneer), designed in collaboration with Bentley’s own styling studio and drawing design cues from the new Mulsanne.

Available in light, medium or dark veneers to match the Mulsanne veneers and finished in pure sterling silver, it costs between $5300-6000.

Other pens include a smoked carbon fibre pen, the Supersports. Available as either fountain pen or roller ball, each pen is numbered 1 of only 630 and priced from $1700.

More affordable is the Slimline, a slimmer version of the existing Continental pen series. Produced as a Limited Edition range of fountain pen, roller ball, Bball Point and Pencil, only 999 of each pen style will be produced. Prices range from $670-1150.