sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message colibri founded 1928 headquarters cst enterprises llc 237 west 37th street 10th floor new york ny 10018 products lighters jewelry smoking accessories small leather goods writing instruments time pieces website colibri.com colibri is a company that supplies men s accessories founded in 1928 . colibri initially manufactured cigarette lighters for which they became known . other products including jewelry smoking accessories small leather goods and writing instruments were later supplied . contents 1 history and background 2 logo 3 history of products 4 colibri jewelry 5 locations 6 references 7 external links history and background edit colibri was founded in 1928 by julius lowenthal who in the same year invented the world s first working semi automatic lighter . 1 in 1935 colibri launched the fully automatic monopol lighter which had an acceleration system . from 1940 to 1945 colibri produced the stormgard lighter designed for soldiers fighting in world war ii . in 1952 julius lowenthal s son jack joined colibri . colibri produced a lighter with a visible multiple gas refill and a hydraulic auto flint system in 1958 and an electric lighter which they named molectric in 1967 . in 1974 for the james bond film the man with the golden gun colibri supplied the golden gun which was constructed from a molectric 88 lighter cufflinks cigarette case and fountain pen . later in 1974 colibri sponsored the winning lombard rac rally team driven by henry liddon and timo makinen . in the 1980s jack s son david joined colibri which then started supplying items such as swiss watches cufflinks and pens . in 2001 the vortex and trifecta lines were introduced with pyramidal twin flame and triple flame lighters . on january 14 2009 the company abruptly closed its doors announcing it was seeking the protections of filing a petition of receivership with the state of rhode island . in february 2009 colibri changed ownership and moved their head office from providence to new york city usa . soon after they introduced the classic c design d and technical t series . logo edit the original 1928 colibri logo used a simple bold typeface and later incorporated flames to dot each i in the word colibri . the logo later included an emblem of a lion symbolising lowenthal breathing fire and a simple hummingbird outline colibri is a genus of hummigbird . in 2011 the colibri logo was changed to a monochrome humming bird . history of products edit 1928 the colibri original was launched . 1935 fully automatic monopol lighter . 1940 stormgard lighter for soldiers during wwii . 1958 colibri invents the first visible multi gas refill and the hydraulic auto flint system . 1958 swiss made monopol watch . 1960 monopol cigarette case . 1961 colibri invented the piezo electric lighter . 1967 molectric 88 silver lighter . 1970 6 jewel encrusted gold lighters . 1977 sensatron battery operated touch lighter . 1980 launch of colibri pens and cufflinks . 1982 power flame plus lighter a three way wind resistant lighter . 1985 pipe lighter with adjustable flame . 1987 quantum the first windproof lighter . 1998 double guillotine cutter and cigar punch cutter accessories . 2001 pyramidal dual flame lighter . 2001 the trifecta triple flame lighter . 2002 the summit a high altitude ignition system lighter . 2011 the 2011 collection ; new lighter models cufflinks money clips pens and small leather goods . 2011 colibri logo re branding . colibri jewelry edit in 2011 colibri launched its c d and t series jewelry range with cufflinks money clips pens and leather goods . the cufflinks are made of a variety of materials including polished steel and semi precious inlays of malachite black onyx black pearl mother of pearl and peridot . t series cufflinks included alligator leather centers . locations edit colibri is a worldwide brand distributed in africa north and south america asia and europe . references edit colibri brand heritage 1928 the legendary original . external links edit colibri retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title colibri group & oldid 743536773 categories companies based in providence rhode islandretail companies established in 1928american companies established in 1928cigarette lighter brandshidden categories articles lacking sources from march 2013all articles lacking sources navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 03 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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