Lamy Lx? What Is This?

[DrDebG]

This is one I will have to keep my eye on.

[a m a r g o]

Double the the price for an Apple-AlStar-Lamy pen?

 

Soon we're going to have a very creative individual in the cutlery business getting inspired from unknown sources...

[rollerboy]

I'm curious as to what people are excited about. As far as I can tell the biggest distinction between these and the regular AlStar will be the price. The physical differences apparently are some PVD on the nib, and a "precious metal" coating on the clip which I gather results in it looking subtly different than the regular chrome finish (or whatever the regular clip is).

 

Are people really getting excited about the PVD and the clip? Is it the colours? The palladium looks like the pearl from a couple of years ago and the ruthenium looks like the regular production graphite (in the photos I've seen so far).

Edited July 5, 2016 by rollerboy

[KTNJ]

While I am not overly excited about the new pens, I think the ruthenium one is nice. I don't think there is enough to distinguish them as a new line in terms of marketing - I think most responses will be "isn't that just an Al-Star?"

 

I think more of the excitement isn't necessarily over the PVD nib/anodized clip, it's more for the fact that there are more new colors to obtain. I think there is a large portion of the Safari/Al-Star market that views these pens with a Pokemon mentality - gotta catch 'em all. They are inexpensive enough to shell out for a new color for each series every year, but once you start introducing too many variants, it becomes hard to keep up. Hopefully this doesn't mark the start of a trend of over saturation of special editions.

 

Does anyone know if these are special editions or will these be around indefinitely?

[rodja]

At the moment there is no indication that this is a special edition.

Edited July 5, 2016 by rodja

[pkotrcka]

Double the the price for an Apple-AlStar-Lamy pen?

 

Soon we're going to have a very creative individual in the cutlery business getting inspired from unknown sources...

just an idea.. how would Apple call ther ink? Would they patent the name ink (like iNk) or use a word iink? :-)

[Ted A]

The Goulet post indicates that this and the metal 2K are to celebrate 50 years of Lamy design and links here: http://www.lamy.com/microsites/50years/index_eng.html

 

So the question I have is why they are calling this the Lamy 60? even if they do use Roman numerals.

[cameron331]

Where are they calling it the Lamy 60?

[MediaVita]

The Goulet post indicates that this and the metal 2K are to celebrate 50 years of Lamy design and links here: http://www.lamy.com/microsites/50years/index_eng.html

 

So the question I have is why they are calling this the Lamy 60? even if they do use Roman numerals.

Lamy LX is supposed to be LUXE, afaik. Also, I read Live Deluxe. But nothing to do with 60 I think.

[bureaudirect]

How soon will you have them in stock?

 

Don't have any info yet, rumor has it September?

[Ted A]

LX is the Roman numeral for 60. Whether they call it "luxe" or something else, it still shows in print as Lamy LX or Lamy 60. It's not as bad as the car name that translated to "won't go," but still, marketing companies are paid extremely large sums not to do stupid silly things

[sail0rm00n]

Lovely pens, but it seems retail will be $70 US. Quite a bit over-priced for a glorified AL star.

Edited July 8, 2016 by sail0rm00n

[Pen Engineer]

just another whimsical marketing gimmick... nothing new, just cosmetics

 

wake up

[visvamitra]

just another whimsical marketing gimmick... nothing new, just cosmetics

 

wake up

 

+1

[Inferno2Inferno]

While it may be a glorified Al-Star, it certainly has my collector's itch going wild! I hope these arrive in Canada and that the mark up is not ridiculous!

[twdpens]

Does anyone know if these are special editions or will these be around indefinitely?

 

We've been told that it will be launched in September and it will be part of the core range next year. That's all the availability info Lamy has released so far.

 

HTH,

 

Martin

[Glenn-SC]

just another whimsical marketing gimmick... nothing new, just cosmetics

You could say that about every Safari after the first model.

Other colors? Just marketing!

Aluminum instead of plastic? Gimmick!

[Slider20]

I like them, got an AL-Star recently, kinda worked my way backward. First foutain pen was a MB 149, them and M800, slowly working my way through Pilot, Platinum and finally got a Lamy. Really a great pen, looking forward to getting one of these, although I would like a more saturated color.

[Calabria]

I'm seeing a lot of my (style-conscious) students sporting gold toys (gold notebooks, pen cases etc.)

 

How odd, this sudden turn to "live deluxe."

[Pen Engineer]

You could say that about every Safari after the first model.

Other colors? Just marketing!

Aluminum instead of plastic? Gimmick!

yes, I could. If they add colours or change material, fine... satisfy more customers and get more buyers, but giving it a new name, no.