Mechanical Fountain Pen Priced At A $105,000

[proton007]

 

The reviewer wasn't even allowed to write with the pen and the website for Richard Mille doesn't even mention that the pen has a nib, lol.

 

 

To think of it, this pen would be better off as a rollerball. Atleast the cartridge lasts longer.

[Ink Blotto]

We need to remember the real purpose of this pen: advertising for the watch maker. It doesn't matter if it ever sells, it's brought the company a lot of press. I had never heard of RM before this press release. Even if it truly cost $50,000 to produce, and I don't believe it did, that's much cheaper than traditional advertising. The pen is a huge success in that way, even if it writes like a $5 fountain pen.

 

IB

[OakIris]

We need to remember the real purpose of this pen: advertising for the watch maker. It doesn't matter if it ever sells, it's brought the company a lot of press. I had never heard of RM before this press release. Even if it truly cost $50,000 to produce, and I don't believe it did, that's much cheaper than traditional advertising. The pen is a huge success in that way, even if it writes like a $5 fountain pen.

 

IB

 

Very true, Ink Blotto. The pen seems to have served its purpose well and has certainly generated some conversation on this site.

 

I know that there are people that frequent this site that are also avid watch collectors. Perhaps one of them (with apparently way too much money, ) will buy one of these pens and give us a real review of it as a fountain pen, not as an advertising gimmick. Just in order to assuage our curiosity - even if it is considered the best pen ever made, at that price, it isn't likely that it will be going on very many wish lists. I know it won't find a place on mine until it is discounted by about $104,900!

 

Holly

[Flounder]

Absolutely, it's a showpiece of talents, like that tiny working side-by-side Purdey's shotgun. I bet they could shoehorn in a self-winding mechanism for filling too, should the fancy take them in that direction. I would be dorkily interested to see if that were feasible writing-to-winding-enough-for-a-refill wise.

[mike.jane]

I'd like to add: Setting a large number of (little) gears in motion, making a portly Swiss banker get up from his desk to issue that payment, burning a virtual figure that the sweat of a hundred working Joes had to create, on something that will go into a vault and only once in a blue moon taken out again and marveled at, all meanwhile real people in the real world are busy starving to death. That is IMO in the realm of philosophical cabaret. It's entropy and stillness in one, it's meaningful and -less, it's a compliment to something/someone just as much as a big fat 'get bent!' to pretty much everyone who wants to care. But then again... isn't all art inherently superfluous? It's (possibly) beautiful.

 

or maybe not. What great luck that I don't know the existential burdens of way too much money.

Edited January 29, 2016 by mike.jane