New Parker Sonnet Finishes

[Vicary]

I just got the latest Fahrney's catalog, and on the back page there's a full page ad for new finishes for the Parker Sonnet. I can't find any additional information on them- they're not even on Fahrney's website yet. So I figured I'd post a picture. There are four different patterns of plated steel caps on lacquer barrels, all with 18k nibs. There's also a new pattern in sterling silver called Mistral. I like the looks of a couple of these...

 

 

 

[alfredop]

I little bit too much.... I do not know what, but it is too much

 

Alfredo

[Mercian]

Ooh, shiny

 

I would like an FP whose body was finished entirely in the pattern on the cap of the pen marked ‘A’, or the one off to the left that has the blue barrel.

[Boston Brian]

D gets my vote, nice to see new models!

Brian

[Mr.Rene]

What about cap problem? Was mended in new Sonnet production ??

[jchch1950]

Yes D looks nice.

[The Blue Knight]

I can kind of understand the appeal and possibly rational but I think but if you keep trying to invent something that works your eventually going to end up with a worse product. In my view original Sonnet with the thin band was of the best looking one.

 

If the finishes were on a brand new pen I might be tempted but I've got 2 gold nibbed Sonnets I don't really need another. I think I might be right in saying Parker's last new pen came in 2012?

 

I kind of like C but not enough to probably warrant £250 which will likely be the MRSP.

Edited May 20, 2020 by The Blue Knight

[Mercian]

If the finishes were on a brand new pen I might be tempted but I've got 2 gold nibbed Sonnets I don't really need another. I think I might be right in saying Parker's last new pen came in 2012?

Well, the ‘refresh’ that they did on the IM & Urban in 2016 was so thorough and profound that I (I know, fully one pseudonymous guy on the internet - ‘big whoop’ ) consider the post-2016 Urban to be a ‘new’ pen.

 

More relevantly, as recently as February of this year Parker were intending to launch a new version of the “51” this September (a c/c filler with a screw cap).

Those plans may, of course, have been scuppered by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Glenn-SC]

I can kind of understand the appeal and possibly rational but I think but if you keep trying to invent something that works your eventually going to end up with a worse product. In my view original Sonnet with the thin band was of the best looking one.

 

If the finishes were on a brand new pen I might be tempted but I've got 2 gold nibbed Sonnets I don't really need another.

First you say Why change something old that works? And then you say I have enough of the old ones that I wont buy any more.

 

If a company doesnt revise their product periodically people have no incentive to buy more of it (excluding consumables like food) until the original purchased item fails/breaks to a point beyond economic repair.

 

I presume that most pen makers would go bankrupt if they ever only sold no more that 2 of any pen model to any particular buyer. While I own no Sonnets I own probably 80 51s and am always looking for more.

Edited May 20, 2020 by Glenn-SC

[ArchiMark]

Thanks for sharing, Vicary.

 

Some very handsome designs.

 

Mark

[pajaro]

Perchance the rollerball "A." Most of my Sonnets are pre-2000.

[vicpen123]

Will it be a better writer than my existing Sonnets or is it just the looks?

[PAKMAN]

I like some of the caps but not sure I care for the metal sections!

[death89]

I think I like my plain SS ones better 😅

 

Though I majorly bent the clip on my FP Sonnet (got caught on a door frame while in my pocket, how?!) and am now going through the hassle of rebuilding a tassie. It only took me 10 years to get around to fixing the nib and poor starting problems 😭