Montblanc Heritage Rollerball

[A1979]

Here we are:

 

[gerigo]

I don't understand the design of this pen.

 

Wasn't the original 1912 Heritage an homage to the 1912 safety fillers? What has the roller ball got to do with safety fillers? It's just borrowing the design language without the conceptual follow through.

 

Or it's just my prejudice of roller balls talking...

[jsolares]

I don't understand the design of this pen.

 

Wasn't the original 1912 Heritage an homage to the 1912 safety fillers? What has the roller ball got to do with safety fillers? It's just borrowing the design language without the conceptual follow through.

 

Or it's just my prejudice of roller balls talking...

 

It does say first capless rollerball, My guess is you turn it to extend the rollerball which is otherwise protected from drying out, etc.

[Toll]

Thanks for sharing the photo -- I had heard a couple of months ago that such a pen was in the works. Now that I see it I am a bit underwhelmed.

[orfew]

Thanks OP for the photo. I have seen a few photos before and I really want this pen. It will be a nice match to my Heritage 1912 FP. My boutique already knows I want one and so I will order one as soon as it becomes available.

[meiers]

Tempting.

[A1979]

It does say first capless rollerball, My guess is you turn it to extend the rollerball which is otherwise protected from drying out, etc.

It's also my guess.

[A1979]

Thanks OP for the photo. I have seen a few photos before and I really want this pen. It will be a nice match to my Heritage 1912 FP. My boutique already knows I want one and so I will order one as soon as it becomes available.

Excellent! Don't forget a little review when you receive the pen...

[orfew]

Excellent! Don't forget a little review when you receive the pen...

I will absolutely submit a review after I receive the pen. I am looking forward to this one.

[Toll]

I was in a local MB Boutique (US) today -- the Boutique Manager told me these pens would become available in October. I also checked on the new Blue Hour line -- still no fountain pens or ink. They have had one each of a roller ball and a ballpoint and they both sold.

[SE1980]

I was in a local MB Boutique (US) today -- the Boutique Manager told me these pens would become available in October. I also checked on the new Blue Hour line -- still no fountain pens or ink. They have had one each of a roller ball and a ballpoint and they both sold.

 

Was at one of my local MB boutiques to pick up a toffee brown ink pot, saw that the Blue Hour pens are in but no ink at all. There's no Heritage 1912 rollerball as well as no Leo Tolstoy. Seems like the boutiques here are quite slow in getting new stocks too.