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Wow, thanks for the responses everyone! @LizEF I hadn't seen the color picker before, that's really useful, thanks. @Mercian thank you for the very detailed and helpful response. Finding that review of Online Nachtblau has helped tremendously also. I'm going to order a couple of inks that seem close and see how it goes. I've been using task management apps (without success) for years now and recently decided to buy a new notebook and pen to try things a different way. I'm enjoying it all so much that I'm just finding excuses to write things. Help like this from the community is only going to feed my new addiction! 🙂

at precious prices

Even deformed, it's not THAT bad, just a bit wavy. I shall post a picture of my deformed 45 section one day.

I’m not the one who purchased it but it’s now showing as out of stock.

Where can I find kanwrite jowo compatible nibs in India other than the pen world with the ultra flex option available

There is a kanwrite jowo compatible nib is it the same as a normal Lenore #6 nib or is there a nib difference (not feed or housing)

That was very informative I didn’t know about that company itself

I live in India is the regular summer temperature too high and I have been thinking about buying a pen from my birthday in January and I still have not decided on what to buy🤦‍♂️

thank you. I didn't cover the specification measurement stuff in the video, which is considered regular and can be easily obtained once the pen is in your hand. My video thereby is not a "product review", and does not construce any purchase advice. What I did is bringing in "my thoughts". That's it.

Thank you. I re-design the scene of Low Ink Refill Demo in the video of Wing Sung 630.

for precious plastic

Thank you Misfit, it's a vintage Mabie Todd Swan, pretty celluloid with an ebonite section and feed, No.2 14k flexible medium nib. What do you think of the inks? I'm a little disappointed with them now I've seen them in daylight. Nice enough colours but dull, no sheen and little shading. The retro style packaging is nice and 30ml glass ink bottles .

I have more Montblancs than I care to admit, and do have a pen that is in the 10k range. But I have walked away from the brand myself because the prices are spiraling to a level that I can no longer sanely buy. Plus there are more interesting pens and makers coming out with pens that are in the what I would consider to be sane prices.

The boutique (and boutique only) idea is brought in by Omega around 2010. After that, many watch brands follow this trend and it has many benefits: 1) eliminate the middle man, means more profit for manufacturers 2) control the market stock, quickly know which design is better 3) better relationship with customers and most important, 4) avoid situation Rolex/Patek facing now(sales of those two brands now are mostly controlled by "God Fathers", see Chicago CD Peacock court record) Richemont group is a watch group, every step it has done on Montblanc follows the market direction that watch industry has taken. In a few years, I will not be surprised the Montblanc would be a boutique only brand. It might not be able to work with fountain pen, but this is a knowing direction.

I really like the Prera, so much so that I got all the opaque versions that were available in 2022. Then decided to get all the demonstrators or Iro-Ai versions. Most came from Amazon, all with the CM nib and priced in the $20 range. Some were gifts.

I had thirteen Kaweco Sport fountain pens with only the stonewashed blue as a metal pen. Then I got the Frosted Natural Coconut, put a black clip on it, and that opened the buying spree of both plastic and AL Sport pens. Is the top pen of yours the Raw Aluminum? If so, I have that one and the Brass Sport. I sometimes buy them on amazon, and don’t get much in nib choices. I almost bought the AL Rose Gold today, but managed to resist for now.

Lazy me didn’t look up the spelling of Terre de Feu. I have a bottle in the room too. I really like that ink.

a Montblanc Boutique

@Bo Bo Olson thank you for the compliment. Some day, I’ll get all my Kaweco pens together for a photo. Until then, here is the newest. There was a red box that seems to have added a touch of red to the pen.

Perhaps, or perhaps they're milking their customer eventually comes to a crescendo as others like me also walk from the brand. Sure, they have customers who spend more than $10,000 on a single pen, but I would still wager over $10,000 in Montblancs is pretty committed as far as customers go to now be walking.

I found an OB Z50 today. I may go back and get it in a couple of weeks.

There are only 2 conclusions I can guess at. If someone else owned the pen before, chances there are ink residue that is holding the nib to the section or the nib holder. If you soak the pen nib immersed into water or pen cleaner for a few days, it would dissolve the dried ink sufficiently for you to remove the nib. The other is that it's a bladder pen. If it is do NOT twist the nib holder as the sac is attached to this. Just pull the nib out.

Not to be rude, but if you feel that the products/ pricing/ approach no longer appeals to you, and that you're walking away from the brand, I guess that is a risk that Montblanc is willing to take. They seem to be going to strength to strength with their endless limited editions and constant price raises.