The Most Elegant You Ever Saw..

[olivier78860]

Purest line : Waterman Edson (with the blue colour, but that's me). Uncapped, I think no pen beats that.

Pure line : Nakaya cigar.

Discrete luxury : Parker Duofold Centenial / Waterman Man 100 / Montblanc 149 / Pelikan Toledo M900

Edited July 31, 2011 by olivier78860

[mirosc]

I absolutely agree with mirosc, shl and ArchiMark.

 

Here's mine, a real beauty (just flew to Hamburg to visit him 3 days ago):

 

Congratulations on your pen. I envy you for owning one!

That's a real beauty, without all that unnecessary bling, stones, metal ornaments or whatever else.

I like your taste!

[georges zaslavsky]

Discrete luxury : Parker Duofold Centenial / Waterman Man 100 / Montblanc 149 / Pelikan Toledo M900

Totally agree, except that I prefer a m1000 over a m900

Edited August 1, 2011 by georges zaslavsky

[psrivats]

There are so many nice pens shown in this forum.

 

The most recent one I saw was this brown tortoise celluloid Edison custom #76 that I saw in this thread. Looks very elegant to me!

 

http://i.imgur.com/F2Xf6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0a0YK.jpg

 

I also like this Edison Urushi pen a lot.

 

http://i.imgur.com/HGvrq.jpg

Edited August 1, 2011 by psrivats

[Yaniel]

The 75th Anniversary MB 149. The rose gold trim and mother of pearl star have an understated elegance to them that is very appealing to me. It's a pen that would look as beautiful today as it will in 100 more years because nothing is ostentatious about it. That's what I consider elegance.

[olivier78860]

Discrete luxury : Parker Duofold Centenial / Waterman Man 100 / Montblanc 149 / Pelikan Toledo M900

Totally agree, except that I prefer a m1000 over a m900

I agree with you, but was more talking about style than about writing ability. It's the main reason why I have a M1000. Well I've ordered a Pelikan Concerto lately, I hope I won't regret the nib-gap, and that the B nib will compensate the stiffness of those nibs.

[Moham1287]

I don't know how some of these pens are considered elegant. They are certainly very fine indeed, but elegance suggests understatement and beauty rather than excessive adornment with ostentatious detail. I would call the Pilot Myu series pens some of the most elegant I have ever seen.

[Rogue07]

My muse has been the MB F Scott Fitzgerald... For me, it's understated and a harmonious blend of metals and textures without being obnoxious. It's on the perennial grail list for me.

[Russ Prechtl]

For me:

 

Modern Montblanc 146 with the two-tone nib

Parker Duofold Pearl and Black

[Triplet Mom]

Another vote for the Mont Blanc Greta Garbo. It was also the pen that sucked me into this vortex of fountain pen addiction in the first place!

[aawhite]

In my opinion and as alone in that as I may be ... an elegant pen makes a statement of the holder's confidence and makes a subtle statement of unmistakable class. No need for flash and noise. For me, that pen is the Sheaffer Valor.

 

Hear, hear!

 

+1 to that.

[Susanna]

I think that also the latest Visconti is very elegant:

 

http://www.giardino.it/pens/visconti/IMMAGINI/NozzeChiusa.jpg

[Granzon]

I think Mont Blanc Gandhi is one of the most elegant pen I saw. My boss brought it one day to work. It was very elegant.