The VITAE 18-inch Swiss Trio is the tall, serious sibling in VITAE's modular family — an 18-inch tower built around a Swiss Sphere percolator that shatters your smoke into hundreds of tiny bubbles for a genuinely cooled pull.
Like the rest of VITAE's system, it isn't glued together; it comes apart into a base, a Trio mouthpiece, and a bamboo connector ring, so cleaning is a matter of twisting three pieces apart and rinsing them, and a broken part is a swap instead of a total loss. It's 5mm lab-grade glass, it stands almost a foot and a half tall, and it's designed to be the centerpiece of the session.
Specs
- Height: 18" (45 cm)
- Chamber volume: 14.5 fl oz (450 ml)
- Glass: 5mm laboratory-grade borosilicate, reinforced 20mm base
- Filtration: Swiss Sphere percolator — disperses smoke into hundreds of tiny air bubbles
- Bowl: 14mm leaf bowl
- Build: modular — held by VITAE's bamboo connector ring, no ground-glass joints
- In the box: Swiss Sphere base, Trio mouthpiece, bamboo ring, 2 cleaning caps, 2 cleaning plugs, leaf bowl, 3 custom-cut foam boxes
- Price: $299
The smoker who wants a statement tube and refuses to accept that "tall" has to mean "fragile and impossible to clean." The 18 inches of chamber plus the Swiss Sphere perc means a cool, well-diffused hit with room to spare, and the modular system takes the usual downside of a big piece — the nightmare of reaching a perc at the bottom of a long tube — completely off the table.
The included cleaning caps and plugs turn the whole thing into a sealed shake-and-rinse vessel. It's a display-worthy daily driver for someone who hits often and hosts sometimes.
The Swiss Sphere is the star: a spherical perc that spreads smoke across a huge water surface for one of the smoother pulls in this height class, and it looks striking mid-hit as the whole sphere fills with bubbles.
Pair that with VITAE's core advantages — 5mm walls and a reinforced 20mm base that let an 18-inch piece survive real life, and the bamboo-ring modularity that means no fused joints and no throwing away a $299 bong over one cracked mouthpiece — and you've got a tall piece that's actually built to be owned long-term.
The kit even ships with custom foam boxes for each component, which tells you VITAE expects you to take it apart, travel with it, and keep it for years.
Care and daily use
This is where modular earns its price. Cap the openings with the included plugs, add salt and alcohol, and shake the base clean without contorting a brush down 18 inches of glass; the Swiss Sphere flushes clear instead of staying permanently cloudy. Wipe the bamboo ring rather than soaking it, rinse each piece separately, and reassemble. Store the parts in their foam cases and an 18-inch centerpiece suddenly travels like carry-on gear.
VITAE's whole project is treating the bong as repairable, modular hardware you're meant to keep — the antithesis of the disposable-glass cycle most people are stuck in. The Swiss Trio is that philosophy at full height: a big, beautiful, filtration-forward piece that you can actually maintain and rebuild instead of replace. It's for the smoker who buys once, buys right, and wants the thing on the table to prove it.