what is MB's "precious resin"?

[chrevbel]

...they are using something very common and added the word "precious" so it could seem special.

While I try not to underestimate any company's marketing department's deviousness, part of the lingering problem in this case is the lack of a perfect English translation for the word Edelharz. Literally, Edelstahl, for example, means "noble steel" -- but it really just means stainless steel. So Edelharz has been translated as "precious resin", but it could just as easily be translated as "noble resin" or just "quality resin"; or I guess it could be called "stainless resin".

 

Monblanc's marketeers have definitely figured out how to sell a $100 pen for $400. I'll give them that. But they're not unique in that particular regard, and their use of the word precious is probably just more quirky than it is devious.

[Zaphodbeeblebrox]

If you are concerned or worried that a Montblanc Pen is made a plastic than you don't need a Montblanc pen.

 

You buy a Montblanc because of the way it writes, and also at times because of its artistic and collectible value, and by value I don't necessarily mean dollars. Plus if you understand how any truly luxury item it's sold you would understand why things are priced the way they are.

 

I'm not sure what they mean about being brittle, I use daily a Montblanc Starwalker Cool Blue Fountin Pen, I have dropped this pen on to hard concrete and tiled floors and it never shattered. And if it's made of plastic, well it's the coolest plastic I have seen!

 

I also bought a Montblanc Boheme Doue in Pirourette with Lilac Stone Fountain Pen, and WOW you have to see this pen in person to realize how absolutely beautiful a pen can be! And I use this pen regularly.

 

But it you want a good pen at a fair price try Lamy or Visconti, they both have good Fountain pens at cheap prices. However the nib will be steel not the preferred gold.