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What is the most sophisticated, classy, beautiful, elegant fountain pen and couldnt ever forget about it?

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Montblanc Greta Garbo!

 

It's the pen that turned me into a fountain pen user and started all this madness. :lol:

 

http://penfountain.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Montblanc-Greta-Garbo-283x300.jpg

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I had a chance to see the Hemingway Mont Blanc when it came out. It was way out of my price range, but I thought it was a beautiful pen. Wish I had purchased it. That is the one that I regret letting get away.

Sigh,

Jim

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I had a chance to see the Hemingway Mont Blanc when it came out. It was way out of my price range, but I thought it was a beautiful pen. Wish I had purchased it. That is the one that I regret letting get away.

Sigh,

Jim

+1 on the Hemingway -- another very classy, memorable pen.

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Montblanc Greta Garbo!

 

It's the pen that turned me into a fountain pen user and started all this madness. :lol:

 

http://penfountain.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Montblanc-Greta-Garbo-283x300.jpg

 

The Cross Sauvage must have been inspired by this pen.

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Pilot's M90 and the original 701.

 

I had just been dabbling in fountain pens, buying very inexpensive ones and only using them sporadically when I stumbled across a photo of the M90. Took my breath away. I had to have one. When I finally got it, it pushed me over the line that separates "dabbler" and "obsessed." I have a larger assortment of nicer pens now, but my two M90s and my one original 701 still catch my breath when I look at them.

 

(I sound like a lovesick puppy.) :wub:

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The Sailor 1911 "international" (black with rhodium trim) is the most beautifully understated, sophisticated and all around classy pen I've ever seen.

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There is a curves theme to the pens chosen so far and I am going to continue that with the MB Jules Verve and a Conklin Herringbone

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What is the most sophisticated, classy, beautiful, elegant fountain pen and couldnt ever forget about it?

Black DJ "51" with a fish scale (aka barley corn) 14K gold cap.

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Those are all very nice! I personally like the ST Dupont Libertie in white that I'm giving as a present. It's beautiful!

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There is a curves theme to the pens chosen so far and I am going to continue that with the MB Jules Verve and a Conklin Herringbone

+1

 

The MB Jules Verne is absolutely beautiful. I love blue pens.

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Still one of my favorites - not super luxe or anything - but definitely fits the elegant bill: Levenger's Isaac Newton fountain pen. Great shape and the logo on the cap is awesome. Got one from my wife when I passed my test to become a licensed Architect but also got an MB 149. I thought it would be crazy to own two fountain pens so I sent the Newton back. I hope to one day get another.

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Michel Perchin's Blue Serpent Pen paying homage to Jeweler Karl Faberge's Blue Serpent Imperial Easter Egg presented in 1886 to the Czarina Empress Maria Fyodorovna by her husband Czar Alexander III

 

Carved from a single block of English Hallmarked Sterling Silver. Deeply engraved with serpentine guilloche and sealed with coat after coat of translucent blue enameling. The pen glows as if lit from within. The pen glides across a page. Functional art.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52092

 

http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr131/yachtsilverswan/BlueSerpentlarge-1.jpg

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David Oscarson Valhalla in gray (Thor) with Broad Binderized CI nib

Michel Perchin LE Blue Serpent (reviewed) with Binderized CI nib

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Could be these Sheaffer Triumphs. . .

 

http://zobeid.zapto.org/image/pens/triumph_family.jpg

 

Or maybe this Wahl Gold Seal. . .

 

http://zobeid.zapto.org/image/pens/wahl_deco_02.jpg

 

Or maybe this Edison Morgan. . .

 

http://zobeid.zapto.org/image/pens/morgan_bedrock_flake_2.jpeg

 

I have a hard time deciding.

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Any overlay by Henry Simpole....can't pick just one...They all make my heart beat faster....:wub:

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I'd say either an MB 139 or a green striated 146:

 

http://www.maxpens.de/bilder/139km01.jpg

 

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/146green6.jpg

 

Funny... I'm not an MB fanboy, but they really do have some incredible pens in their back-catalogue...

Too many pens; too little writing.

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To my mind, understatement is the essence of classiness and elegance, particularly in a functional object. That is why I would put forward the Nakaya Decapod, Aka-temenuri. It's functional art without gratuitous ornamentation. For this same reason, I think the MB 149 is elegant and the WEs and other SEs usually aren't. That's not to say they aren't attractive objects, just not truly elegant.

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