Montblancs: What Percentage Sold Are Fountain Pens?

[meiers]

What Percentage Sold Are Fountain Pens?

 

As we will never get exact data from the Montblanc distributors or the Montblanc Headquater we only can guess.

And you have to keep in mind: Each country has it's own consumer habits and within the countries all business is local, so there is no generally binding for the following data.

 

But due to the 10 years sales statistics of the Montblanc Boutique Bremen from 1996 to 2006 :

More than 50% of all Montblanc pen sales are ballpoint pens, just ballpoints and no rollerballs, pencils or so.

This means in quantity and not in value. In value it's more than 50% for the fountain pens.

 

And there are more data:

More than 50% of all Montblanc pen sales are black Resin Meisterstück pens.

About 20% are Starwalker, Less than 15% are Boheme and far less than 10% are Meisterstück Solitaire pens.

 

More than 50% of all Montblanc fountain pens were sold with a M nib, nearly 20% with a B nib, 12% with an OB nib and 10% with a F nib.

 

The pen with the highest sales volume is the Meisterstück 164 Classique ballpoint pen.

The number one at the fountain pens is the Montblanc Meisterstück 146 LeGrand followed with a very small distance by the Montblanc 145 Classique / H. a. Frederic Chopin. (But then there is a big distance to the number 3)

 

All these data do not include any Limited Editions!

 

Mazed or amused?

 

Axel

 

Thank you Axel.

Vielen Dank!

[Blade Runner]

Thank you Axel. And Eric mentioned in another thread, that for the first time last year, MB made more profit on non-pen items than pens.

[Tom Kellie]

~ There are 11 Montblanc pens sitting on my desk.

Two are ballpoint, the other nine are fountain pens.

The ballpoints are exclusively used to fill out forms during overseas travel.

The fountain pens are working pens, used to grade student homework and the like.

What I enjoy is the flow of the ink onto fine grade paper.

Now that a B nib has joined the bevy of EF nibs, the enjoyment has ratcheted up several notches.

Tom K.

[niksch]

Tom K.

 

How many of those pens did you buy in an MB Boutique? That is the point of the OPs question.

[Tom Kellie]

Tom K.

 

How many of those pens did you buy in an MB Boutique? That is the point of the OPs question.

 

~ @niksch

 

All but one were purchased at the Oriental Plaza Boutique in Beijing.

The first — a 149 M — was received as a gift about 25 years ago.

Tom K.