What's The Most Expensive Fountain Pen You Ever Bought?

[J85909266]

ST Dupont Orpheo XL, Platinum-plated furniture, Midnight Blue Chinese Lacquer, 18k Fine nib

 

Purchased used. I did not pay full retail. Still my most expensive pen.

[888007888]

Picked up a Montblanc Leonardo da Vinci Limited Edition.

Edited December 1, 2015 by 888007888

[usk15]

These two:

Bexley Simplicity transparent blue - £100.00

Bexley Stalwart Oxlood - £70.00

 

[MarineDad]

I ordered a F-C Model 20 Marietta with the Masuyama medium italic nib.

[abstract49]

Visconti Divine Proportion - the original in the big, fancy box - about 61.75% of retail at the time; would not have bought it at full retail. Must be about six or seven years ago (feel free to correct my history; I don't have time to check it out), while it was still very new, first edition. It is still a lovely, smooth writer, but I had to send it in to have one of the silver strips on the cap replaced/reattached a couple of years ago.

[notsimar]

Nakaya Dorsal Fin 2 in Suzu-ishime Ishi-me Kaneshitsu

[flipper_gv]

Recently got an Omas paragon ARCO brown. It didn't write really well because of a feed misalignment. Also, it was a really thin medium nib and was a bit too extravagant for me (was afraid to use it) . Returned it and expecting a pelikan M1000 in broad.

 

Sad thing is I had an insane price on the omas and the pelikan is just a solid price.

[sidthecat]

The nouvelle ringtop I'm contemplating ordering from Shawn Newton...even with a minimum of gold it will be a healthy five bills.

 

i may have to wait for someone in my family to die.

[lurcho]

Boringly, the Montblanc 149.

 

I bought it from Brown's of Chester, a posh-ish pen shop in a posh English town, in about 1999.

 

It's hard to believe, now that that pen costs about £850 (I understand), but I paid about £250.

 

I spent months trying to convince myself that it was the bee's knees and the dog's (bleep). But it wasn't.

 

It wrote very mediocrely.

 

It was sold through a newspaper ad for £100 to a hard-nosed Scouser (Liverpudlian). I was a mature student and had a greater need to pour beer down my gullet than ink onto paper.

 

That price rise amazes me whenever I think about it.

 

Edited for typos. (Hic!)

Edited December 2, 2015 by lurcho

[jkingrph]

Montblanc 146 Barley Solitaire Doue

[wspohn]

Montblanc 146 Barley Solitaire Doue

 

I bought a vermeil version of that for around $600 and probably did pretty well at that. Not my most expensive pen by far. Ironically I also have a brand new 149 that I paid nothing for - got it free with Visa card points years ago, as well as a 144 solitaire doue

[lurcho]

The nouvelle ringtop I'm contemplating ordering from Shawn Newton...even with a minimum of gold it will be a healthy five bills.

 

i may have to wait for someone in my family to die.

 

Kill the one you like least. (Discreetly, obviously.)

 

I would for a Shawn Newton.

 

I've got someone in mind now.

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Not quite in the same league as some of the other folks on here, but mine is the Pilot Custom 823.

[dadbar]

I have 4 fountain pens in regular use....I've never bought any of them

 

My Scheaffer 330 was a purchase in the 1970's on my parent's credit card while I was in college. I used it to take just about every exam so we have a lot of "history" together. I love this pen.

 

The Cross Century is from the 1980's and I requisitioned it as part of my job one day when I was feeling particularly frisky..and to my surprise, it showed up on my desk, no questions asked.

 

My Montblanc Traveler 147 was a re-gifting from my brother-in-law (the only decent thing he ever got me)

 

My Cross Townsend was "bestowed" upon me for a special project I worked on at a past job. Hero one day with pen in hand....a few years later I got blamed for doing the project and got fired. I replaced the engraved cap with a blank one so it wouldn't serve as a constant reminder, but I still like the pen.

[jsolares]

It would be the MB WE Leo Tolstoy

 

[Highbinder]

Not quite in the same league as some of the other folks on here, but mine is the Pilot Custom 823.

 

Same here.

 

And then I lost it in a pub in Amsterdam about 18 months after buying it! I was gutted and haven't come close to spending the same kind of money on a pen again.

[dylim1]

The top among mine are Franklin-Christoph Model 66 with a gold nib, Pelikan M605 solid blue, Pelikan M405 White Tortoise, and Graf von Faber Castell Intuition in Ivory. I didn't pay full retail price for those. The price I paid for each were about the same (about $210 or so).

[Dragonmaster Lou]

 

Same here.

 

And then I lost it in a pub in Amsterdam about 18 months after buying it! I was gutted and haven't come close to spending the same kind of money on a pen again.

 

I heard that the Custom 823 (and other Pilot pens) are significantly more expensive in Europe than in the US and especially Japan. From what I heard they go for in Europe, I absolutely don't blame you for being gutted! Ouch!

[lurcho]

 

Same here.

 

And then I lost it in a pub in Amsterdam about 18 months after buying it! I was gutted and haven't come close to spending the same kind of money on a pen again.

 

My heart goes to you. my friend.

 

In 2004, my great aunt gave me a new-in-the box Parker Duofold that her husband had received as a prezzie in the 50s. The nib was a 14K nail that needed Binderlization. What came back was a miracle.

 

Two months after Richard sent it back to me, I mislaid it in a pub quiz. (A British thing where idiots get drunk and usually lose their dignity and their biros.)

 

There's no need for that kind of regret. It's like Debbie... It's all,coming back, man...

 

EDIT: Highbinder. Sorry. Obviously you know what I'm on about because you're Scotch. I just realised.

Edited December 4, 2015 by lurcho

[kestrel]

Pelikan M800 bought off the bay a decade ago to celebrate a major life event. 6 years later I had another one of those events and splurged to get a .9 mm Binder Italifine for it. I have used that pen every day since and don't regret the expense.