caran d'ache 1010

[ppenloverr]

i saw this pen flashing around the pen shop in london on the window. awesome pen but do not you think it is a bit too much for what you get for it?. still i could accept it as a pressie and would never spend that much on a pen. and you?. :roflmho:

 

Caran d'Ache 1010 Pen

Posted Dec 8th 2007 4:05PM by Deidre Woollard

Filed under: Writing Instruments

 

 

Caran d'Ache has created a pen to honor Swiss watchmaking. The 1010 Limited Edition fountain pen takes its name from ten minutes past ten (10:10), the moment when the hands on a watch dial are perfectly balanced. The pen body is designed to resemble watch gears and is made of rhodium-coated silver. Two cages, one decorated with gear wheels, and the other with the bridges that link them, are fitted over a transparent body. The cap is inspired by watch crowns and the clip resembles a watch hand and is attached to a pinion. The piston pump set with a ruby and a sapphire crystal dome at the bottom tip of the pen containing a balance wheel poised between two rubies. The pen comes in a black lacquered box with a glass bottle containing blue-black ink and a palladium-plated silver stopper. The pen is a limited edition of 500 and sells for $19,000.

Tags: fountain pen, pen', watchmaking, writing instrument

Edited December 12, 2007 by ppenloverr

[WhosYerBob]

awesome pen but do not you think it is a bit too much for what you get for it?

Hmmmmm... But how does it write? Doesn't matter if it's spectacular looking if the lines it lays down are junk.