Visconti Palladium Dreamtouch Nib

[BillyE]

I have a HomoSapiens pen with the palladium dreamtouch nib, which I love. I like to have to different pens on the go, with different colour inks in. As the Homosapiens medium only comes in one style, I'd like to get something else with the dramtouch nib, but I am not sure which pens have these nibs as standard. I seem to get different information on nibs from different sites. Anybody know which Visconti pens do come with this nib. Thanks.

[akustyk]

I recommend going the US distributor's website and browsing through it:

http://colesoflondon.com/

[Ron Sabbagh]

I suggest you contact Bryant Greer on these boards. He will hook you up.

[UK Mike]

You can get the Dreamtouch nib on the Michelangelo and I believe also the Wall Street in recent production. Beware however that some retailers and markets carry these pens with 14k nibs, depending on the date of manufacture.

 

I have a Dreamtouch on a rose-gold-bronze finish Michelangelo. To be honest, I have better nibs, it has needed some remedial work and although it is very flexible it is also quite soft and easily over-stretched. Although I like Visconti pens in general, I won't be seeking out any more Dreamtouch nibs.

[Susanna]

If you mean THIS Michelangelo:

http://www.giardino.it/pens/visconti/IMMAGINI/MichelStNero.jpg

it's not the same 23 kt palladium Dreamtouch nib that BillyE was speaking about. Different size, different model.

I think that the Michelangelo series had a 14 Kt gold nib, small size. Maybe Visconti now changed also these gold nibs in palladium nibs, but they're not the same nib, though.

 

This is the Dreamtouch nib, mounted on the Homo Sapiens:
http://www.giardino.it/pens/visconti/IMMAGINI/HomoSapiensStilo.jpg

http://www.giardino.it/pens/visconti/IMMAGINI/23KtPennino.jpg

 

And it's mounted also on Opera Master, black Opera, Wall Street, Divina Oversize, and all the Limited Edition that used to mount a large size 18 Kt gold nib.

 

Other pens mount a small size nib, that could be steel (Rembrandt, new Van Gogh) or gold (Michelangelo, Ragtime 20th Anniversary).

[UK Mike]

Thank you for stating that Susanna - I am aware that the Michelangelo nib is smaller than the Homo sapiens (not sure about the medium sized HS) but i was referring to the fact that it is a Dreamtouch nib. Size isn't everything! I think the Michelangelo is what we would refer to as a size 5 whereas the HS is a size 6.

 

The same comment about double checking the nib material remains true however, some of the Opera Master Black pens have an 18k nib I believe, rather than a Dreamtouch. Although they are genrally pleasant nibs, I am still not convinced that the palladium nib is actually superior to 14k or 18k gold. Evidently, Visconti are in the process of transferring the gold nib designs to palladium, not necessarily because it is a superior material (although its not bad), but because of market differentiation and cost savings.

 

In the current UK market, van Gogh/Rembrandt/Salvador Dali are all steel nibs. Again the original van Gogh Maxis had a 14k gold nib.

Edited September 8, 2013 by UK Mike

[RPfister]

I recently obtained a Visconti Michelangelo, including a Dreamtouch 23kt Palladium nib, acutally two nibs, one Medium, one Fine. All in all, the nibs are slightly disappointing. Frequent skipping, and drying up. After some tinkering, it got somewhat better, but the "Dreamtouch" label is certainly a misnomber in my experience.

[Brian Anderson]

Pretty much all pens north of the Rembrandt and Van Gogh have a 23kt Palladium dream touch. Some Michelangelo do, some don't. There are #5 and 6 sized, single tone, two tone, rose gold, and black plated dreamtouch as well.