I dont know what about you but every time I used to fill the lottery (untill today) I asked myself what would I buy ?
Well then,if you won the big prize at the lottery what would be the FIRST pen you would buy ?

I hope not the MB that cost 160,000$ cause I think of it as a jewel and not as a pen but hey its your imaginery money.

Call me crazy,but either an Omas Arte Italiana Arco or the Omas Paragon.
Might not be super expensive,but they are both beautiful pens.
The Omas Arte Italiana Arco would be first choice.

JD

Paradise Pen.

Not the store brand. The store.

Bill

Coem on be more creative

How about Visconti's "The Forbiden City"

41.000$ I saw this pen and it was the most FORBIDEN pen I ever saw.

Kevin's limited edition "Hellier" Danitrio.

If I won the lottery I would probably buy the Montblanc "Karl der Grosse" as my first pen, and then the whole 'patron of the arts' collection, followed by the entire 'writer's series' collection. No doubt there are other pens I would buy, probably David Oscarson and Michael Perchin.

They are expensive but you don't need to win the lottery to buy them, just have a good salary.

Lotteries are a self-administered tax on fools.

Think about it - would you bet $5 on whether you'd be hit by lightning, or run over by a truck, or get cancer? Of course not, but the chances of those things happening are better than you winning the big lotteries.

I have always viewed buying such tickets as the triumph of optimism over realism, yet otherwise sensible people continue to buy them and if you raise the things I have just mentioned they respond with things like "Well if you don't buy one you can't win..." as if that really means something.

So no, I don't think I can respond to your question the way it is phrased as I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life and can't imagine myself doing so.

If we can change that to 'What pen(s) would you buy if you had a sudden windfall?" I'd have to give it some thought, but my first reaction is that I would seek to complete or at least augment my collections of certain lines that I now collect, and would certainly take the opportunity to get into some very early pens that I haven't so far been able to fit into the budget.

I have little hesitation in stating that it would not cause me to buy the big buck bling bling pens. Liberace I am not and the mere thought sends me into gales of laughter. No offence to anyone that does covet such gewgaws, of course.

I'm fairly pragmatic.

I'll take a Pelikan M805 with an XF, F, M, and a few custom ground ones from Herr Binder. Might take a little money and try to add a few nice vintage pens to the collection, too. Nothing outrageous. About as crazy as I'd get would be a hammered cap (sterling) 51.

Although Bill's comment about buying Paradise Pens did cross my mind.

I would have a pen designed specifically for me. I would take some time and make sure it had the exact right weight and balance. It would have contours in the section and barrel that fit my own hand. I might have to send a bunch of burly guys in my private jet to kidnap Richard Binder (or Nakata of Nakaya, or Nagahara of Sailor) to design the "Emperor Doug" nib. Aside from looking incredibly cool, the nib would feature a razor sharp yet frictionless fine italic nib.

I might have to have a series of Emperor Doug pens made, with various filling systems. Uh, how about a convertible crescent filler with a snorkel? Anyway, it would have to have an innovative filling system.

I would have a competition among the great designers of the world to create something simple but elegant, and the pen itself would have to be made from something really luscious. Maybe celluloid, maybe some kind of new synthetic.

It would have an advanced system on it that would store what I wrote in an on-board memory chip that could be transferred to my computer in graphic or text form for cut and paste operations, as well as spell check and mobile emailing of my letters.

No diamond or birdsplat or any logo would mar the immaculate exterior of the Emperor Doug pen. Only 12 people (my wives) would even know what an Emperor Doug pen looked like.

On the other hand, I might just buy a Lamborghini.

Doug

I'll have to think more on what pen I'd buy, but since I never buy lotto tickets, it's kind of moot! :)

(My mother, however, does buy tickets regularly, and she has won the prize money for every division except the 'big one' over the past 3 years - her last win was 252K. We keep telling her that's she's gotta be due to hit the 1st division prize any week now. ;)

True enough.Or sell all my other pens to get one.I think i will save up and hope.

JD

I'd be quite modest - I'd like a Conway Stewart LE Cracked Ice, or perhaps the names and addresses of the 50 people who own them.

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Col

ALL OF THEM.............................................

Richard Binder's Pen (i think its called the Pharoh?), preferably with a flex nib.

Or something entirely custom out of hard rubber with an old waterman wet-noodle nib or something like that.

Then I'd take my money, buy a good chunk of Wality, and turn them into a montblanc rival. *dreaming*

I don't pay the stupidity tax, so I won't ever win. But one day when I have earned a big pile of money...

... I'll probably be buying very similar pens to the ones I do now. Beyond a certain point (and we'll all position that at a different place) more money doesn't get you a better writing experience.

Ray

All kidding aside, I agree.
There are 2 different threads tonight that address that very sentiment. For different reasons.


http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...ndpost&p=206979

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...ndpost&p=206872

Until Lamy ran out.

wspohn

Bill you are such a party puper,we all know lottery is as my boss called it "HillBilly Pension Plan" but this is just for fun fantasy.
By the way if I fill the lottery I have a week of fantasy of what I will do with the money.The joy that it brings me is worth it.Of course reallity hits at the end of the week but it takes me 10 seconds to come back to reality.

This reply is to HDoug

I must admit I didnt think the way you did "Emperor Doug" pen line sounds unique and interesting.
Lamborghini sounds VERY VERY good but I probably get a Porsche 911 Turbo
and a Mercedes ML 500 for the wife,or maybe BMW X5,or maybe Audi Q7.

I also would like to buy a Toyota Tercel and sup it up so it will be the ultimate stealth car.

Ah so many dreams and such a little bank account.

Parker 51 coronet cap
Parker Snake
Waterman Snake
Parker Aztec
Mandarin Duofold

Here's an idea: have a custom made car that acts as a fountain pen as well! Like a Pelikan m10,000. Just a one seater, with the driver seat in the gigantic 18k gold nib's breather hole. And a viewing window so you can see how much fuel is left. Of course it doesn't run on gasoline, but rather Noodlers Legal Lapis.

Having to gas up using the piston filler would be a pain though.

Parker 51 Plum
Have Diamine or Noodler's or PR produce my custom blended ink
Send all my pens to the Nashua Nib Spa
Fly to Japan and have custom Nakaya expedited
Buy the Sheaffer factory in Fort Madison
Hire OldGriz to snipe all the good pens on eBay
Quit my current job and become an employee or volunteer at Pendemonium

That's actually tricky for me! It wouldn't have been, a while back (full sized Omas 360 F), but now I'm not so sure.

I'd like a PFM-III. And a Rose Glow OS Balance. And a Duofold Striped Vac. And a Densho Raw Flexi XFine. And a Cobalt Vacumatic, a big one.

Ya know what? I think I'd just buy every single resin pen on Vacumania to start. I don't like heavy pens, so all the metal pens there are out.

Heh, you want to talk sleepers, I'll give ya a sleeper.

Take a Subaru Impreza WRX STi. Rebuild the front clip so that the hood is higher and the grill is bigger, to replace the (now eliminated) giant hood scoop. Shave the rear deck spoiler and all the performance badges and paint it white. Replace front and rear windscreens with polycarbonate, install carbon fiber driveshaft and a somewhat lighter flywheel, reinforce the engine mounts and engine/transmission couplings, balance the engine, polish the intake manifold and ports, replace all lubricants with diester synthetics, and install lightweight seats.

Now THAT is a high performance sleeper! Looks like an ordinary compact sedan, but is in fact a street version of Subaru's World Rally Cup race car, with improvements!

MORE great ideas!

A set of pens in colors matching my fleet of Type 57 Bugattis.

Ron

And maybe you'd be able to afford an ink cartridge or two!

Doug

If money was no object, I'd get a nice Nakaya made to my spec.
I'd also get myself a sweet custom road bike from Serotta or Independent Fabrication and spend the winter riding in Spain like the pros even if I'm an amateur. I would ride the Tour de France and the Giro with the crazy amateur roadies.

I love riding and I love writing, I guess I could get a nice saddle bag with a writing kit in it, so I can stop in nice little coffee shop on my daily ride.

Buying a pen company could also be an option

HI,
I would buy a Waterman Edison in Blue with a fine point (possibly an extra section witha Med nib). I guess my tastes are pretty sedate.

OK for those people who won't change their buying habits just because of a windfall (good financial discipline), what if you were given a large sum of money, enough for any number of pens, of any price, with the proviso that you MUST spend ALL of the money on acquiring pens? What would you buy?

I'd go to Japan, visit the best maki-e artists and pen makers, and get them to make me a series of unique maki-e pens to my specs, based on Danitrio and Nakaya models, customised to allow easy interchanging of nibs - flex nibs of all sizes, italics of various widths, stubs, you name it.

Yeah, I can dream.

The yellow gold parker duolfold in its presidential version and/or a 146 made from gold and/or an oldwin custom pen made of three golds.

Wow, the Omas Arco was my first thought, too!
Great minds think alike, eh Jim?

Excellent question, goodguy!

Likely go after a few long-'expired' Mont Blanc Limited Edition pens and some Conway Stewart's (vintage and modern). Oh...and contact Winedoc to chat about several of those extraordinary pens he occasionally posts pictures of (since having a few $$$ "desk-only" pens would be of no concern).

OK...back to reality.

I don't know if it is the first pen I would buy, but I would certainly have to buy one from David MacKinnon at MacKinnon Pens.

How great to have a pen in your own name.

Chris

a waterman serenite, no doubt (and thanks for not turning this into a poll! )

ive thought about this for many many times now...if i do win the lotto the first (two) pens id buy is the Omas 360 Vision Gold Trim.....for me and my cousin who just love the look........its s huge pen i know, ive tiny hands but its just gorgeous....something id use only to ehem, show off or for special occasions....the other pens id prolly are the Mont Blanc Chopin and Mozart....and a beautiful Conway Stewart...i dunno wot model but ill deifnitely get one of that cos they look beautiful/classic x

I would buy all of David I's double jeweled Parker "51"s at Vacumania.com. Then I'd make an offer for those in his personal collection. Then I would try one of Winedoc's more expensive models.

Ron

Holy cow! Just looked at MacKinnon's site. He does great work! I love those cuff links and shirt studs!

I would pile up Italian celluloid, new and vintage, also Japanese Urushi. Furthermore employ my private nibmeister.

Now to watches and cars ...

Nah, I would buy some more Sheaffers and Waterman. And ink.

I'd join in on the trip to Japan for some crazy custom urushi Nakaya, at least two of those, then some maki-e Danitrio, then some custom ink, and then David I. would be flooded with 51 and vac emails....
ah, shopping

oh yeah, and the most expensive Ducati (motorcycle, not pen) I could find.

You know what?

Given unlimited funds I would not be looking at new cars, I'd be looking at old ones!

I already have a clutch of old sports cars and I doubt I'd want a new one. The guys who own old Lamborghinis like my one Italian model are almost all real people - old car nuts who enjoy the cars and like working on them and sharing information and experience. The owners of new Lamborghinis are almost to a man, people that I wouldn't want to share a meal with much less any longer association. Self important twits that think the chattels they own somehow define what they are. If someone left me a big bag of loot, there might be a Miura SV out there with my name on it - there certainly would not be a Gallardo or Murcielago.

Easiest pen comparison (though I offer it tentatively given the recent laughable thread about MB) is Montblanc - compare a collector of old models with a collector that just loads up the platunum card buying every so-called limited release from modern times and puts them away in a cabinet for boasting rights, uninked.

As for watches (we seem to share more than one interest) I would also probably just buy more older watches, the ones I lusted after but couldn't afford before.

I have no urge to carry around one of the modern contraptions - the Breitlings for example, that double as wrist weights, the cases as large as their owners' egos, the tiny complex dials too small to read without optical aids (the catch 22 of that sort of watch - if you are old enough to afford them, you need glasses to see the subdials, if you are young enough to see them, you are either too poor to afford them, or you are in software development).

I'd most likely collect a few more vintage Le Coultres and such but wouldn't go crazy. I would not do the modern MB style thing and buy up every new model of Rolex. Frankly, Rolex are well made watches but not worth the inevitable asking price and they are a bit on the clunky unimaginative side, although some models (that they are older ones probably doesn't surprise you) do appeal to me.

FWIW my watch collection sits at just under the 200 mark, my pen collection at just over that number, so my manias are approximately balanced. I don't see myself buying many more watches (and I really should sell a few) while the pen collection will continue to expand slowly (and I should also sell some). The car collection should all be sold off according to SWMBO on a bad day - except for her MGC of course...

I would probably buy the Waterman Edson Sterling Silver LE. I like it, but I think it will be hard to save enough money to buy it.

It'll be pretty hard for me to win the lottery since I never play. Although I did get a few e-mails saying I won the lottery in the UK. But if I did win, I'd by this pen.

Ben

Picture borrowed from pens.it

Hello everyone! This is my first post here after a few weeks of observing. It's great to find a place with such knowledgeable contributors. Wonderful site.

My "money no object pen" would be the Dupont Olympio/Orpheo black and palladium with a medium nib. I've tried a bunch of pens lately (I happen to live near Swisher Pens in Virginia Beach), and this one is my current favorite. I'm saving right now to get one, hopefully in a few months. The only other pen I've tried that writes as smoothly for me is the Sailor 1911. I'll have to do a side-by-side comparison as soon as Swisher gets an Olympio in medium in stock.

mmmm not sure what I would buy.....but the picture alongside may give it away

Yes i have to admit it I would buy one of the eight made per year.......

I'll take the MB Kafka. There's just something about it that appeals to me.

Peliken " Dragon & Phoenix"; Loiminchay "Forbidden City", or Pilot/Namiki " Buddhist Scriptures" in sterling silver version.

David

Outstanding answer.

Hi,

Well, I don't play the lottery or anything like it, but saying that I just got a windfall, I use it to pay my bills, and put most of it to do God's work. I've done this when I get a large amount of money in a short time (Good sales), and when I shall do it always when such happens.

Most if not all of my laboratory samples are gotten already, so no pens this time.

And, since you asked about a pen, I'd get an Aurora Idea for someone.

Dillon

I'd have to take the other route.

My money would go on a fully kitted out Holtzappfel lathe, complete with eccentric, rectilinear and elliptical chucks.

It's the only way I could get my dream pen

Oh, and a fully restored E-Type Jaguar 2+2, in BRG.

Perhaps I may buy a ticket some day

Regards,
Ruaidhrí