IMCO 6700 Lighter 

I believe these are genuine IMCOs. They're just not made in Austria anymore. The Japanese company Windmill bought the company, including their tools and machinery, and uses a company in China to make the new ones. The Chinese-made IMCOs are virtually identical in fit and finish to the Austrian ones, but they have "Come of Vienna Austria" on the base of each 6600 and 6700 lighters, and "From Austria" on the base of the 6800s. The new IMCOs are made of 304 stainless steel (an improvement) so are less magnetic than the Austrian IMCOs.

The loose jingle sound made by the flap piece is normal, even an original IMCO Super did that. It was meant as an improvement over the Junior model which did not have the flap and is simply added to keep debris out of the lighter mechanism housing to help preserve functionality. There are Chinese and Russian knock-offs sold as IMCO, and possibly others. Some don't even open up like a real IMCO and just have the outward appearance of an IMCO, others are just made cheaply and do not have the precise engineering and durability of an original IMCO. While IMCO did make butane lighters, to my knowledge the Triplex lineup of 6600 Junior, 6700 Super, and 6800 Streamline all used petrol/oil/lighter fluid. If you see one of these models claiming to be butane, it is probably a fake. The Japanese company Windmill made (make?) lighters sold as genuine IMCOs following IMCO's closing. It can be confusing because the factory is in China and packaging says "Made In China", but these are made using the actual designs acquired from IMCO and have "come of" engraved on the fuel cap. As far as I can tell, the Windmill company are the only legitimate IMCO-designed lighters currently in production as opposed to reverse engineered cost-cutting reproductions. They are very comparable to original IMCOs in quality (if not better), they just use bad English. The "come of" does help differentiate the current productions from NOS (new old stock) original IMCO productions which said "From Austria", "TM Pend Austria", "Patent Austria", or "Patent Made in Austria" depending on Triplex model and when they were produced in Austria. The "come of" IMCOs are readily available and reasonably priced, and are sold new. Original IMCO productions were nickel plated carbon steel that rusts over time. Original IMCOs were last produced in 2012, so rust-free NOS lighters are available, but usually priced in the hundreds of dollars. Streamline and Junior NOS are much more available than the Super model, but being smaller they hold less fuel. The Restoration Hardware (USA/Canada) company sold restored and/or extremely faithful reproductions (or possibly remaining stock from IMCO) but it looks like they are no longer made. I personally wouldn't buy an IMCO from a seller that does not show an image of the bottom of the fuel cap since that's the best way to check authenticity/quality online. There are sellers that will show one thing and send you another, and there are fakes sold for hundreds of dollars, so you have to be careful when buying.

I bought one of these 6700 from Ebay new old stock from 1994 and it's awesome, it's like they took the Zippo and just made it much better! My new favorite lighter. Absolutely genuine and from 94 and very sweet and lights every time and I love the spare flint storage, Teutonic engineering at it's finest.

watching this i remeber my box of old lighters adn then i find two imco 6700's that i know is genuine one's since they are made before imco was shut down (that was when my fhater bought them) and some other triplex's whic one of them has a nice picture of some stuff from stockholm (porbly made as an souvenir) and the other one looks quite like the one in the video but bought some time before the 2000's.

Thank you 🙂👍

Hey, my new go-5 just came and what’s all the like sparkly stuff around it?

nice video. saw one of these in a old antique store in my town so will get one

Nice vid!

Your lmco is genuine. Where the flint belongs in the Chambers sliding door it is stamped lmco paten or pat. Thank-you

Great new purchase, how did the premiere go, i missed the live chat as was cooking dinner, i did notice rewatching it that there was not too many on at first, i wonder if it was becuase the premiere chat was up for a day? who knows or maybe it didn't send out another notification 30 mins before it started, or maybe it's just still so new people don't know its a feature yet. Still seems quite random, one of mine only had two commenters for the whole live chat.

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Nice lighter I gotta get one

I read somewhere that original ones are magnetic and later ones aren't. Later ones made of a better steel non rusting. Chinese improved 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

MAN?! These things are valuable?! I've had one of these since the early 1980s, bought second-hand. Not a smoker, I stopped using it 'cause, when I got around to actually using it (bushcraft), the fluid had usually evaporated. :-( I need to dig it out, I never sold it...

What would you pick out of these two choices the Israeli M15 or the 4A1?

A Chinese company bought the rights to the name of imco so technically they are genuine imco lighters

I gotta wait till tomorrow? Dang it! I will be back...

Do you have IMCO 6200 ? I have no idea about it, there's no review on RU-vid.

That 6700 you have both is and isn't a genuine IMCO. It isn't because it is not pre shut down. It is a remake by a company that actually bought the IMCO brand. At least that's from what I've been able to gather.

It has to russel inside - Darling. It is an original copied sound😎

I was wrong. Commented in previous video of yours that IMCO was bought by Japanese Company. Did not happen unfortunately. I think IMCO had to compete against their own clones which probably put them out of business. Lots coming out of Israel and Jordan on Ebay claiming to be originals.

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What material are imco 6700 made of? Steel?

Open it up....it should have stamped on the inside Inside "Imco PAT". I suspect it won't have. My original one has Imco Triplex, Patent, Austria, Super 6700 on the base.

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Pretty hard to find legit Imco lighters here :/

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Sad to say that your Imco 6700 is most definitely a Chinese reproduction. The attention to detail is rather impressive. It speaks to the integrity of the original Austrian design. I interpret the crazy changlish phrase on the bottom of the lighter, "Come of Austria" to be an attempt to say that this is true to the original and authentic Austrian design. Sadly, Chinese are rather unscrupulous in regards to their use of words like; authentic, vintage, and genuine. On the other hand, it does seem to function better than I expected. AFAIK all reproductions of Imco lighters are coming from China. Some are better than others. They are making them in a wide variety of materials. So, that is a plus. The concept of a brass Imco 6700 is a sound one; but I don't think Imco ever made one. Imco lighter designs appear to have been made under various names in Austria from the 1950's forward. You might have better luck picking up a vintage "Fox" lighter from the 1960's. These appear to have been mfg in Austria, and have all of the telltale design characteristics of the later Imco lighter design. It's always a risk, as there are clearly some people in the former Eastern Block countries who are mixing and matching vintage Austrian and contemporary Chinese parts to assemble frankenImco's which they pass off as vintage. Call me a fool, but I just purchased two Imco 6700's on Ebay from a seller who claims to be selling NOS that he purchased from a distributor who unearthed them in his warehouse. They will either be authentic, or I will simply be fooled once again. Fingers crossed! The positive aspect of the Chinese Imco clone business is that Chinese wicks and flints for the old Imco's are still in production, and seem to be of useable quality.

Can you make video ,,How to remove fliter elements" or something in this style?

I have original, when that lighters created?

The lid design is to punch a hole into cigars great lighter

Real austrian imco lighters are magnetic and the Chinese made imco lighters are not. The Chinese made imco lighters are stainless steel so actually made from better material. I have both but carry the Chinese made imco. My oldest imco was made in the 60's and still looks new and works as a new one should

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The 6700 you have is Cinese because of the Come Of Vienna....horrible English! The Austrian made originals should have engraving on the bottom: "IMCO-TRIPLEX PATENT AUSTRIA SUPER 6700" (1960-1990) o "IMCO-TRIPLEX TM REG. VIENNA AUSTRIA SUPER 6700" (1990-2012)

all the ones I have seen with "come of" look to be fakes although japan make "real" IMCO lighters now the chinese are fake obviously

I think this is a chinese made Imco. The original should say "Made in austria" or "TM Reg Vienna Austria" on the bottom cap. The Imco lighters from the chinese sites all have this weird english.

Yea it's a fake