Introducing Grifos Eclipse Fountain Pen

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Hello, let me introduce this our new fountain pen we have prepared in these last weeks. It as our usuall is entirely handmade here in our craftmen pen company in Aosta Valley, Italy

 

The pen have a gleaming black lacque backgroung smoothing the shiny of solid silver barrel. All the details of the pens are made of 925 silver plated metal.

 

The cap is made of lacquered brass while the barrel is made of 925 sterling silver.

 

We as company are enrolled in the Italian Jewelry and silversmith guild and this is warranted by stamps always present on our precious pens (you may se these stamps here below in the third picture).

 

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Fountain dimension are 143 mm lenght (pen closed) with a maximum diameter of 12,7 mm (mesured on the cap body).

The lenght with the cap posted is 161 mm.

The weight of the empty pen is 33 grams.

 

All our silver barrels or caps are made from a fusion of silver, we cast silver into ingots shape and then roll it obtain a very long stripe (could be also 50 meters long) large only 45 mm with a thickness of only half millimeter.

 

Ended this first phase we use a first die that cut round coins of silver from the stripe. These 20 mm diameter coins are now put under 6 different dies that step after step in these 6 phases that from plain coin change the shape to conical barrel.

 

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Would be easier lathe barrels from solid silver bar but would be impossible obtain so light and at the same time tough silver without cold die processing. In other words a lathed barrel would be indeed heavier (to much for handwriting long pages) and also to much weak. This is the reason we have choose the long and more sophisticated die processing for our pens.

 

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In this pic you may see 2 or the 3 stamps we put on each silver made pen, the first is the stamp by the law ( 925 in oval) that warrant this is a solid 925 barrel and grant from fake silver plated ones or poor silver alloy with few silver and a lot of unprecious metals.

 

The second stamp is our own and represent the eye of one of our griffon in the company emblem. You know our company have rampant griffons as emblem (this emblem came from a 1000 year old mosaic we have in a old curch close to us). Again this stamp is the detail of an eye of these griffons and grant that is a real mady by us .

 

The third stamp (not visible in this pic, sorry) is letter AO 23 into a rhoumbus and it work as a car registration and allow to all to understand that this silver object was made from the silversmith company with enrolment number 23 of Aosta region (Ao). In other words from us. This die is as car registration released by government through Italian jewel guild and under its control.

 

 

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Our company has inside its building a guillochè machine (also know as engine turning). This allow us to produce inside all the patterns we or our customers would like.

We use an antique hand moved engine turning machine dated 1930 coming from Parker company. After we have purchase this old machine we have spent a lot of months to return it in working condition since its original condition after 70 years of works wasn't indeed so good! Now we have it working fine and all or pen sufaces are decorated with it using true natural diamonds tools to give deep and shiny engravings fantasy patterns.

 

This pen have a made in Germany nib (Bock company) to assure right writing experience and the refiling system is made with a converter pump but is possible use also international standard cartridges Pelikan-Waterman type.

The nib could be Extra Fine, Fine, Medium, Broad or Big Broad too, also could be required in solid 18 kt gold.

 

We as pen company release this to let you know our pen features and with open mind on your suggestions and requires even if negative! This will help us to give better service and featured pen to you!

Regards to all from Aosta Valley, Italy

 

Maurizio Stura .

[MYU]

Sorry, but this really isn't a pen review--it is more of a marketing plug for selling this pen. Please refrain from posting these in the pen review forum. It has been moved to Market Watch, accordingly...

Edited October 2, 2009 by MYU