Rotring ballpoint pen

[Carloa]

 

This ballpoint pen is probably the thinnest in the world; thinner even than the famous Tombow Zoom. It is the only pen that fits in my small wallet. Along with a calendar, a homemade leporello, a pocket mod, and two or three small index cards, I am fully equipped - office-wise - with it.
Of course, I don't like ballpoint pens and only write with them in emergencies, practically not at all, because so many emergencies don't happen. 
But if they did, I would be ready to write immediately.

 

It is strange that capitalism and its commodity production provides writing utensils in such a multitude that one cannot keep track of them at all, but always serves only a uniform middle and practically never the edges: Such a thin pen is not available at all: Six millimeters in diameter! 125 millimeters long! 
If one day I should lose this Rotring, I will not be able to get an adequate replacement, because there is no such thing anymore.
I will then have to insert a naked refill: an aesthetic faux pax and a silent impossibility; degoutant!

 

There are many people who no longer leave the house without their cell phones, because they feel naked and unprotected without them; and they often carry them around the house from room to room, even taking them to the bathroom. 

 

I feel that way about pens. I always have a pen with me. 
Well, that's an exaggeration, not always, but most of the time. 

 

It's not that I'm waiting to write down the license plate number of a fleeing criminal, but I'm waiting for the brilliant thought, the ultimate world knowledge, global enlightenment and heavenly insight, and it would be silly if the Holy Spirit came to visit me and I didn't have a pen with me to record his message.

 

Probably however the world spirit will communicate itself not at all in tidy grammar, by means of fountain pen, ball-point pen and paper, but completely differently. 
That would be fatal. All my ink supplies, all my fountain pens, all my notebooks, all that would then be completely useless and superfluous. 
My God, what a fool I am!

 

 

[tmurfet]

Hi Carloa,

I don't see a rOtring on your rOtring. Does it say rOtring on the clip? Did the rOtring fade away? Inquiring minds need to know. :.)

[Carloa]

It is almost gone. Only the 'r' is visible. (Don't search google. I've done it before... Nothing ...) This pen should be 40 years old.

 

[JosephKing]

I love this post; good job Carloa!

[NightMind]

What kind of refills does it take?

[tmurfet]

33 minutes ago, NightMind said:

What kind of refills does it take?

The answer is evident from the photo:

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Schneider-Express-75-Refill-Documents-12757-2-A2-Pack/dp/B004GTMOP0

[Mangrove Jack]

I would bet that the Sailor Chalana is thinner. I have the Chalana Set - the fountain pen, which is considered the slimmest fountain pen in the world and which actually writes very well and is reliable; and the ballpoint.

Smart looking and well made.

[tmurfet]

I'm not a gambler 🤑 but according to Pen Chalet the Chalana FP is 6.4 mm while the ballpen here is 6 mm.

[Mangrove Jack]

4 hours ago, tmurfet said:

I'm not a gambler 🤑 but according to Pen Chalet the Chalana FP is 6.4 mm while the ballpen here is 6 mm.

That's the FP. The ballpoint may be slimmer. 

I need to pull mine out of storage and see.

[Carloa]