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This one is a Milord Vision in green with a factory stub nib. Its my only Omas with a stub. I was always under the impression that their broad nib was considered a stub but this one is very different. I picked it up secondhand but the nib profile appears to be factory stub along with the engraving on the nib. I cant confirm or deny if someone besides Omas had worked on the nib but it looks and writes like it was ground by a drunken baby. It railroads at the drop of a hat and the grind on the bottom of the nib is super uneven and grainy. I can see the unevenness by eye. I cant believe this nib ever wrote well and whoever worked it must have been late to a lunch date. I did some work to it tonight and heat set the feed. Its ridiculously wet and there was a good gap from feed to nib when I received the pen. It still throws down so much ink that it will not completely dry on paper after a good amount of time though. I cant get a sheet of paper between nib and feed after heat setting so the gap is right but its still crazy wet. The tine spacing looks pretty even so its not like theyre spread out too far or anything. This one is kind of a mess! The rest of the pen looks great but the nib and feed is just ridiculous. The QC seal says the nib was originally in fine so I assume it was sent back for a nib exchange to a stub. God I hope this nib was not ground by Omas. Its just all kinds of screwed up. I worked on it for a while with a 10x loop but Im going to need to continue with a proper microscope to get it right. Im planning to sort it out next week. The problems with this nib/feed are new to me though so it should be interesting. Usually a heat set has sorted the super wet condition in the past but not this one. Its going to be a challenge! My other Omas Vision is super wet as well in medium so maybe this is a factory tune but its just silly wet. None of my other Milords are like this and that includes the wet rosewood/ebony models. Theyre wet but reasonable. Also even the clip tightness is different. I dare you to get a sheet of graphene between the clip and cap on this pen! Going to need to adjust that as well. Totally different than all of my other Omas pens. Im really baffled by all this. This pen was one of the last Omas made as well as my factory tuned Paragon Ludovico Einaudi Signature. The Signature Paragon is perfect. I mean really, its the best pen I have! This Milord though is 180 degrees out. Omas must have been an interesting place to be during the last days. All I can say is that I sincerely hope the nibsmith who built my Signature Paragon has picked up a great job at Montegrappa or the like. That one is an artist whos talents should not be wasted!

So I have a bit of an issue with a new style Omas Paragon that Ive had for a while. The pen ran great when I bought it secondhand. For quite a while actually. The section threads have a bit of friction before the facets are aligned when capped though. This is my only resin section Omas so the feel was new to me. One day I ran the cap about half a facet passed tight with the facets lined up. I was distracted and slightly over tightened the cap a hair. Since then, Ive had an ink leak at the silver trim where the section meets the body (green arrow). Im in the process of taking the pen a part and have the piston out along with the nib and feed (disassembled passed both red arrows). The feed/nib collar are still in the section. Is there a joint where the round section meets the faceted body at the green arrow? Ive taken a part several metal section Paragons and am familiar with the joint from section to body on those pens. Is the Milord made in the same way? I dont see a clear tube reservoir as I did on the new Paragon. The pen body looks to be the reservoir on the Milord and the section is made of the same material as the body. The joint location is a little mysterious to me in this case. I dont want to attempt to find a joint where one does not exist if you catch my drift!! I did find that some ink had made it passed the piston filling assembly on the other end though despite not seeing any ink seeping here when assembled. Its a great writer so I would love to get it back up and running again. Thanks for your help FPN! Cheers!

I just picked up one of these about a week or so ago. Ive been trying to get one for almost 6 months now and out of nowhere, one was available from Bryant at a fair price these days. I jumped on it and pulled the trigger! Ive only started collecting Omas pens about 2 years ago and have had to make up ground quickly. First impression. This pen is extremely elegant with the diamond like carbon purple/bronze color and rose gold trim! Very exquisite! The nib and trim is a pink gold instead of red gold and very fitting for the look of the whole package. When I first saw it, I felt that it was a pen that would fit well in an older pen collectors private vault. I didnt feel like I was a seasoned enough pen collector to have such an exquisite pen. I have a fair amount of Omas pens in my collection, but this pen is on another level. The body and cap are media blasted so you get these amazing satin reflections in the light across the facets but the edges of the facets are laser sharp. Not rounded at all. In low light the pen is a sort of light plumb/purple. Really interesting colors from this pen in different lights. It rarely looks just bronze. Despite the media blasted finish, it does show finger prints easily. The box had an outer cover in a soft touch black with kind of rose gold embossed text. The main box is standard Omas for a Paragon and came with a bottle of Omas black. Omas black is a nice ink but I dont really use it much and find that its mild, and tad light and dry. Its a very safe ink in my opinion and I typically use it to run a fill to completely clean out highly saturated inks out of piston fillers. Its very easy to clean at the end of a refill. The paperwork had the standard QC card along with another soft touch black folded card with rose gold text about the titanium series. Also had the same brief booklet about Omas. The whole presentation was very nicely done. This pen feels like its absolutely bomb proof! It has a nice weight to it and the DLC finish feels very rugged. Im not sure how hard the titanium alloy actually is on this pen but it feels incredibly solid. Its such a beautiful pen but the way its built is beyond just durable. I feel like it would just last forever and be completely unfazed even with daily use over decades. The weight feels different than a brass pen. Its hard to describe but the feel is very unique. When you first pick up the pen, it feels cool to the touch but not cold. Its winter right now here so I imagine its a little cooler than usual. The pen heats up quickly and retains a nice warmth to it for a long time. I usually dont pay attention to these things honestly but it was immediately noticeable with this pen and very pleasant! The section is black resin with the serial number embossed into the material opposite the top of the nib. I have a feeling this pen would make an excellent EDC pen if the situation was a little different. Ive been using it daily at work but Im obsessively careful with the pen due to replacement parts being scarce. I think its really the most impressive overall Omas Ive seen or handled based on aesthetics and build quality. Its writing very well these days too after some work! Writing experience needed some effort to optimize. The nib was rotated on the feed and the tines were misaligned a little. This is pretty standard in my experience with modern Omas pens save for the one pen I received that was tuned at Omas, a Paragon Ludovico Einaudi Signature in broad. That pen is my best writer and has never had a problem. Epic pen! The rest of my Omas collection made past 2004 are pretty much all tuned the same from Omas. Maybe I should say not tuned. Nib slightly rotated on the feed with some unique feedback. I was only able to get a fine nib these days on this pen in 18kt. The nib was rotated on the feed as usual and the tines a little misaligned. The misaligned tines was not usual though. I pulled the nib and feed to re-seat it correctly. I had to heat set it and then align the tines. I ground the nib and polished to a 6k micromesh finish that still maintains the spirit of the original feedback but is tuned correctly for my hand. The pen writes more like a medium now and has a nice wet line. Im very happy with the nib after working it for a good amount of time. I had to heat set it one more time as it broke in also. Might need to heat set it a 3rd time as its on the edge of ink pooling up when writing. Overall, Im very impressed with this pen! The writing experience is nice but there isnt a novelty to it like a stub or italic. Its just a good medium-ish writer now with nice feedback. I find myself staring at the pen kind of a lot. Its not as crazy as a brown arco, but the reflections are really cool over the facets! It must have taken a long time to make this pen. Its the best built Omas Ive seen by far. Its a very striking pen but verges on being understated until you really start looking at the details. From 10 feet away, it just looks like a brownish-bronze pen, but if youre writing with it, its quite spectacular and flashy in a very refined way. I would say its a must have in any Omas collection!

I found a kitchen scale laying around the house tonight so I weighed some inked pens for fun. The silver vermeil section on the brown arco really seems to add some weight! The Titanium Omas Paragon came in at 41.29G Omas new style brown arco Paragon at 49.88G Visconti Millionaire at 55.97G Lamy Studio at 32.96G

Is there a list out there of all the celluloids that OMAS made pens from? Also are the Autunno celluloids and Saft Green celluloids the same?

Hello Everyone, So Before Omas went out of business, I was able to get my hands on a Omas Ogiva Cocktail Lemon Vodka. It was my grail pen at the time and ever since it arrived it has had one problem after another. The piston seal kept leaking and I was forced to replace it myself and that has partially solved the problem (ink still gets behind the seal on occasion). However, the biggest issue happened when the pen leaked from the nib while it was capped. I did not notice it while it was inside my carrying pouch and the ink completely flooded inside the cap. It was probably sitting like that for about a week while I was at school and when I finally did notice what has happened, the ink completely destroyed the inner cap seal (the clear plastic part inside the cap). The inner cap seal was practically eaten away by the ink (MontBlanc corn poppy red) and no longer kept the air from coming in from the hole in the cap where the clip is inserted. Not only did it not hold the air seal, but it was also permanently stained blood red like a crime scene and being a almost completely clear yellow pen it did not look pretty. So after attempting to clean it for days with no success I was forced to remove it. All this happened last July and ever since the pen keeps drying out and I cannot find anyone able to a fix it or sell a replacement part. I have checked all over the web with Mr. Mottishaw of Nibs.com, Tom Weserich of penboard.de and of course ebay with no success. The pen is basically unusable and I don’t know what to do. I cannot insert the part back because it shriveled up and no longer creates an air tight seal and does not fit back into the pen. If anyone has any extra seals they are willing to part with or sell or just any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I attached an image of the part that I'm looking for here if anyone is confused about what I'm talking about. Thank You, Alex

Does anyone know the name of this fountain pen and the name of the color? Thanks!

Initial impression. This is a really cool ink! My test pen is my favorite Omas. A Ludovico Einaudi Signature Paragon with a broad nib. The ink is a highly saturated dark metallic blue on Rhodia paper but doesnt seem to dry out very fast. Ebonite feeds actually turn an iridescent red after a short time in air! The feed regulator fins turn red while the lower portions remain a metallic blue. Its a very unique effect. The pen kept writing though after being uncapped for a few minutes. The color of the metallic at the bottom of the jar looks a lot like Diamine Tropical Glow but the base ink is much darker blue so on paper they are very different inks. Its a silver tone and not gold. I have a good amount of Diamine inks from the shimmering collection but none are like this one for saturation and color variation. If you wait for a minute with the pen uncapped, the first letter written has an awesome red sheen and then the rest of the writing fades into a gradient metallic blue with red edges. With the broad nib I saw some shading as well. Its not a very wet nib but does flow pretty good so the shading and color could be a mechanism of the feed on this pen. A wet nib might not have the safe effect. In any event, it looks great with a fair flowing broad nib. It ran great and didnt clog the feed. There was no dried ink left on the nib. Seems like a well behaved ink despite the saturation and shimmering effect. The flow on paper is very nice and fluid. It never dried out, with reasonable time un capped, on the pen even with the high saturation. Overall a very interesting and well writing ink. I highly recommend picking up a bottle. I think it has unseated Blue Lightning as my favorite shimmering ink! Theres more depth to the Arctic Blue and its very different from the other inks I have had. I can see this one being restocked as I quickly run out! I hope the pictures convey what Im trying to describe.

I've fulfilled a pen bucket list item tonight my friends! I've been actively bidding on/searching for an Omas Titanium Paragon in bronze PVD for 6 months now. There's a seller on eBay that seems to have several of these but with the diamond encrusted cap band. He has the listed buy it now for an insane price but every few months, he'll put one up on auction no reserve. I've been tracking prices to plan my bids accordingly but prices just keep going up exponentially! Pen emporium has one of these listed without the diamond cap band for a fixed price but they want about the last sale price for one with a diamond band. Crazy! I got an email the other day from Bryant Greer (Chatterley Luxuries) about what's on sale......I dread these emails but love them at the same time! There were no less than 4 pens on my list at insane low prices. I was surprised to see the Omas I had been looking for on sale! The price was hundreds less than Pen emporium. I just about fell out of my chair! I immediately got a hold of Bryant and made a great deal. Great guy to work with! I'm really excited about this pen! I feel I caught it right before they became unattainable at any reasonable price! No plans to sell, just write!

I just got my first Omas pen with the funny "Advanced" Cartridge System. I don't like the cartridge only system and I want to use my bottle inks. However this is not easy and I googled around for a while without finding a satisfying answer. So I decided to try something myself and actually find a "solution" I want to share with you guys: You only need three things which I think most of us can find pretty easily: 1. A short international converter. There are a couple of them around and I think any of them would be fine. The main criteria is that the ink reservoir part of the converter should be shorter than a short international cartridge so it fits into the upper half of the metal basket. This way, the bump at the middle of the basket will not be a problem 2. Some sort of tube that fits into the end of the basket. One easy choice, which is what I chose, is a short international cartridge with the top part cut down. 3. Some spring that fits onto the handle of your converter and about the same diameter as your tube (international cartridge). With these three things, you simply put the spring onto the handle and put the lower part of the handle into your tube. To install the converter into the basket, you first put the tube end into the basket and then compress the spring by pulling the converter until you can fit the converter into the basket. The spring will spring back and make sure everything stays in place. I'm quite satisfied with this solution for now and hopefully this will be helpful for some of you.

Hello everyone, I've only started getting into OMAS pens after the company went under and after writing with one... I just love their soft, mushily smooth nibs

Hi folks, a heads up for you Omas lovers; here are links here and here to a couple of very nice, pretty rare 360 with the Burkina Celluloid: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3EwAAOSwIaFZKCbq/s-l1600.jpghttp://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3EwAAOSwIaFZKCbq/s-l1600.jpg http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QHIAAOSwi8VZPIB1/s-l1600.jpg I am not affiliated with either of the sellers, just passing on a rare find, though an expensive one!

Hi! Some time ago I had the opportunity to try Omas EF extra flexible nib (from calligraphy set). It was wonderful! For me the nib was perfect. Unfortunately, it's hard to get a pen with this nib. I will not mention the price... That's why I'm interested in Pilot Falcon.I'm wondering about buying a Falcon resin with SEF or SF... It seems to me that the writing experience may be similar ... but I'm not sure. Does anyone have both, Omas with EF Extra Flexible and Falcon SEF and could solve my doubts? Show me some comparision maybe? Which nib is closer to EF Extra flexibility (impression, writing, thickness)? SEF or SF? Or maybe none? Thanks!

Are these two pens among of the many versions of the Ogiva? The only barrel imprint is these three words in a row: "Omas Extra Italy." I'm not at all well informed about Omas pens, but I was guessing the 1980's, give or take, and that these are pretty low end, as far as Omas pens go. Anyone know anything about them, like what the material is, or what they might be worth paying for nowadays to use as knock around (to and from the office) writers? Some of you are bound to know, but I'd appreciate even a somewhat informed guess.

I have a lovely OMAS Extra 556/S with a (presumably) rolled gold cap and black barrel with striped ink window. It has a wonderful fairly flexible fine nib with a heart shaped breather hole which is embossed such that it could be from the 1940s according to this link https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/277324-clarifying-vintage-omas-extra-nibs-as-much-as-possible However, I could not find trustworthy information about when this pen really was made. I hope that some of the experts here will know and would like to share their knowledge. Thanks in advance. Edit: The original sales price was L. 8.000. That seems quite substantial for the time...

Omas was a great brand and part of that "Made in Italy" that made my country renown around the world. Unfortunately Omas shut down the last year, leaving us pen enthusiast, all a little poorer. For this reason I was very happy to find in an old stationery near where I live, two bottles of ink from this brand: Omas Blue Black and Omas Blue (Roma 2000 edition) Omas Blue-Black is a colour that I would define a dark sapphire. A dark royal blue, with hints of purple, stronger when wet and that tend do disappear while it dries. A closer look to the cromatography shows a strong similarity with the one I've made for Pelikan Edelstein Sapphire . The ink behaves quite well on all sort of paper, with little bleedthrough and feathering on cheap copy paper. There's not much to ask to shading as it is a quite dark colour, but there's some, especially on fountain pen friendly papers. There's a really little waterproof purple component in this ink, but does not keep texts and drawings to fade. In the end, is this ink worth it? It's a discontinued ink in a beautiful bottle. It's a decent blue black which stands out amont other blue blacks. If you find it, grab it, at least you may say that you've acquired a piece of a great Italian story, unfortunately ended the last year. COPY PAPER PIGNA EXTRA STRONG TRACING PAPER INKDROP CROMATOGRAPHY WATERPROOF TEST (SOAKING 15 MINS) - BEFORE - DURING - AFTER

Not exactly your prettiest pen or your best writer but the pen that you get along with the best. The one you would never flip for whatever reasons ignoring sentimental value. An absolute keeper. For me it's my Omas Paragon Ludovico Einaudi signature edition with a broad nib. I know we have pens on the opposite spectrum that have been combative every step of the way for no reason at all. I have one in mind right now so there must be something to this both positive and negative. I ordered this Omas new after they went under. It was one of their last pens and the only year of the "signature" collection as far as I know. I got the pen from a retailer in Germany about a year ago. The deal almost didn't go through though due to a clash in price and some translation issues but cooler heads prevailed, and I'm glad they did! I've never had a seller simply respond to a reasonable offer with just "no". Then there was the USD to Euro exchange rate. Lots of obstacles in this transaction. This is the only Omas in my collection that was tuned at the factory and it's just perfect! It's never had a bad day and looks great no matter what. Always a perfect writer regardless of ink. It's even my girlfriend's favorite pen, connoisseur of pilot G2's with only a Platinum Preppy to her name. There's something about this pen. I swear it was blessed by the Pope himself! Let's hear your stories of special pens that can do no wrong!

Hello, Just recently got a few NOS Omas pens, and decided to ink one of them, picked an Amerigo Vespucci and inked it with Parker Quink blue-black, when started to write realised in is driping from under the nib on both sides, I want to take out the nib and re insert it, my question is if the feed and nib are friction fit or screw in? Thank you in advance.

There are lots of "show me" threads where people post photos of the pens they are using, but I have not recently seen one related to OMAS. I know they are out of business now, but the pens are still selling well on the used market so they are popular. Also, with 90 years of pen making, I am sure there are at least a few dozen still out there. So, let's share what OMAS pens we happen to be using today. Pictures are preferred, with a writing sample if possible!

I have a question regarding the Omas Milord fountain pen. I have been trying to research this but I get nowhere it seems. I know there are the models 555, 556, 556 (Sizing difference). But nowhere have I been able to find info on the 154 (other than someone mentioning the number. So --- what is the 154? And what does HT refer to? Thanks so much for the help. Richard

A quick search on ebay will reveal a considerable number of pages for Omas pens and I've always dropped a few of them into my watch list each week to see what they end up going for. They never go cheaply. In fact, most of them seem to go for considerably more than what they originally sold for. I get that there is a certain Omas fever currently and that ebay isn't always the best indicator of what something is worth (is it ever?), and that Omas is available in a lot more places. It does seem strange to me though that there never seemed to be this kind of 'hype' about Omas or the kind of feeding frenzy over their products when they were in business; which makes me rather sad because if the current market is anything to go by then it seemed a perfectly viable business. Since Omas closed their doors I've had at least three of their pens in my watch lists each week and so far not a single one of them has failed to sell for a price that was either a very close equivalent or for more, and in most cases it is more. I don't know the ins and outs of all their dealings and maybe they had bad investments somewhere, but it seems rather sad to me that a company which seems today to be in high demand ever went out of business. I came rather late to the party when they were still in business and bought one a year from them. I couldn't afford any more as they were never exactly cheap. Now the prices seem to be rocketing and even though I thought things would have died down by now, they show no signs of slowing. Is it just a period of fever still or was there something else at work?

Douglas Kennedy's novel Temptation describes the Waterman Edson as "the Ferrari of writing instruments." When he moved back to Manhattan, he had an Omas pen and a Moleskine NB. https://therealdeal.com/2015/01/10/inside-the-home-of-author-douglas-kennedy/

Hi, I am trying to figure out the Omas Marconi Sterling series. It looks like the Sterling model comes in two flavors, One has gold trim, the other has silver trim and blue on the clip. I think both are limited series. From pictures, it looks like the blue clip model also has darker lines in the body and caps lines. Beside trim level, is anything else different. Thanks Mark

Hello everyone - long time lurker, (almost) first time poster here. In memory of OMAS, I thought I would take - and share - a picture of my 360 collection... missing from the photo are only a clear demonstrator and a second ebony pen. What the sharp-eyed among you may have noticed is that these, apart from the Imagination, are all rollers! I like writing with them, and since I prefer rollers to fountain pens, this has dictated the direction which the collection has taken over time. Clockwise, from the top: - Lucens (gold trim) - Wild (Ltd Ed) - Wild - Blue cellulose - Burkina - Titanium (not numbered) - Imagination - Snakewood - Snakewood - Ebony wood - Translucent Amber - Translucent Smoke (Ltd Ed, ruthenium trim) - Translucent Red (Ltd Ed) - Translucent Turquoise (Ltd Ed) - Green (Omas 75th) - White (Omas 75th) - Cranberry - Blue/black (gold trip) - Blue/black (HT trim) - MoMA A few versions are still missing, but I am hoping to still be able to add those at some point... You can see a larger version of the picture here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92915341/360large.jpg

I have snagged my first Omas. In this case a Pearl Grey Paragon style pen. To be honest, a large part of the purchase was the celluloid rod that came with it. I know it is a Paragon style pen. In my googling, there is the Paragon, the Milord, and the Arte Italiano. I haven't found the dimension differences between the Milord and Paragon, and the Arte Italiano seems to be a throwback or limited edition. Doe you guys know of a site with more detail or have some detail you could share with me? Thanks.