[wdfifteen]

Delicate glasses are great. Large thin spindly fragile glasses are my favorite, but thick heavy glasses of any kind suck. Part of the martini experience is the glass. Small is fine. Heavy - yuck.
You need a shaker, you can’t stir a decent martini. Tangueray is my choice, but that is a matter of taste (Beefeaters sucks IMHO).
Fill the glass with ice and water and let it chill. Put 2 oz of gin in the shaker with lots of ice. Shake the hell out of it. Pour the ice water out of the glass. Put some vermouth in the glass, swirl it around to coat the glass, dump it out. Stab a couple of pimento stuffed olives with a toothpick and drop them in the glass. Pour in the ice cold gin, hopefully there will be some slivers of ice with it.
It’s what I call perfection.