Lamy Lady

[Rique]

Has anyone ever tried / bought one of those? I know it is supposed to be a lady´s pen, but I´m rather tempted to get one... They are certainly very unusual looking, and the only pen I´ve ever heard of with a porcelain body. By the way, it is supposed to be a "lady´s" pen, but I read somewhere that they are bigger than the usual purse pens.

Any opinions?

 

Rique

[alexalex]

Lamy Lady (have you seen Penspotters article about Lamy?) is not the only porcelain body pen. Loiminchay FuShou is even more spectacular (but IMNSHO a bit over the top).

 

Regards

alex

[Kaweco]

Hi Rique

Gorgeous pen, I think. My daughter thought it was a give-away from Milka chocolade

But with 24 gramms without the cap the Lady is a little bit too heavy, the 2000 is only 13 gramms. Lamy had stopped the production 2 or 3 yeas ago. I bought one of the sold out for half the price.

Kind Regards

Thomas

[Maja]

They're supposed to be an uncommon pen, but I've seen two such pens in local shops :blink:

We've got some odd stuff for sale in Vancouver pen shops, I tell ya...

 

The pens I saw looked lovely, but I didn't ask to try them out.

[klemenv]

Actually it is a great pen.

 

I have purchaise one several years back as a birthday present for my girlfriend.

 

It is very, very reliable starter. It starts even after several weeks of non-use.

 

Porcelain was made by Rosenthal, a well known German tableware company.

 

Pen has 14k nib, that is very nice with a hint of flex. Not springy like Omas or Visconti, but actually flexy (altough very little).

 

Compared to Paragon, Duofold, Tibaldi, Visconti, ... well somehow it writes better than all of them.

[Rique]

Thanks everyone for the replies!

 

alexalex - yes, I´ve seen that site - that´s actually the only site I found that had information about the Lady, and it´s from there I got the idea about the pen´s size. Now, the Loiminchay pen - for me, that´s certainly way over the top.

 

Kaweco - thanks for the info about the weight. I expected it to be heavier, because of the porcelain. It´s actually lighter than, say, a Waterman Expert.

 

Maja - you should see the market here in Brazil. All sort of oddities surface here... For example, the Pelikan New Classic, a pen that discontinued in 1995 suddenly flooded the market here a few years ago and can still be seen on many shop-windows. This Lady is a newcomer - it´s only this year I saw one around here.

 

klemenv - I think that reliability could be expected - I´ve got several Safaris and AlStars, and they are some of the most reliable pens I´ve seen. One of them was left unused for several months, left at the bottom of a drawer, and still worked the moment I tried it... That´s one of things that attract me to the Lamy pens.

 

best regards,

Rique