What's New October 2005
The
new Medici LE from S. T. Dupont is an interesting take on the Italian
Renaissance and the accomplishments of the Medici family.
The Orpheo model base pen is guilloche engraved and platinum plated, with applications of dark green and white marble Chinese lacquer, as well as accents of red jasper.
Based on the style of buildings of the Florentine Renaissance, the design is quite triking, ornate, yet still very clean and elegant. Dupont is also making this series in a desk clock, and lighters.
From Montblanc, the Greta Garbo LE. A perfectly sculpted design that clearly reflects it's subject matter, this might just be one of the nicest shapes on a current production pen we've seen lately!
Swedish actress Greta Gustafson climbed the Hollywood ladder from commercials and publicity shorts to her post as one of MGM's most memorable leading ladies. As Greta Garbo, she is known today as not just an actress, but a legend.
Montblanc portrays this theme with a gently curved cap
and barrel that together form a sensual shape pleasing to both the eye
and the hand. Accenting this is platinum plated trim, engraved with her
signature circling the cap ring. As a finishing touch, the clip is set
with a brilliant round pearl.
Also
from Montblanc, the Sir George Solti edition.
Montblanc's tribute 2005 Donation Pen is a fountain pen in their 146 size. The fountain pen has an 18K nib, and is piston fill, the ballpen is twist actuated.
The trim is platinum plated, and inspired by the keyboard and the inner workings of a piano.
During the course of his career, the Hungarian musician Georg Solti would come to be regarded as one of the best conductors in the world.
From Pelikan, the new M425 brings a new combination of green and silver.
Available in fountain pen, rollerball, ballpen, and pencil, the M425 features a translucent deep green barrel, matched up with a cap and piston knob finished in rich sterling silver. The cap and barrel end are also encircled with rings engraved into the metal.
The resulting look is clean and simple, the Pelikan M425 manages to be a very modern looking pen while retaining a lot of the classic elegance for which Pelikan is so well known.
OMAS
is launching a new limited edition series based on the Japanese art of
Manga, stylized, simple lines creating characters which rely upon visual
impact rather than dialogue.
The pen itself is made of the lightweight vegetal resin for which OMAS is famed, with an overlay of sterling silver and enamel.
The figure of the character Miku (translated roughly as "the future who has yet to come") is rendered in bright colors on the barrel. The pen has an 18K nib, and is piston fill.
Images copyright 2005 William Riepl