What Visconti Fountain Pen Do You Find Is Your Favorite?

[Johnboy976]

The title says it all. What Visconti fountain pen (for those who love Visconti) do you find is your favorite?

[Schadenfreude]

I love visconti rembrandt (ivory, black, special ops and purple), van gogh (portrait in blue CMIIW), and Salvador dali (green).

[zaddick]

The Carbon Dream and the Chatterley Ripples are my favorites. Behind those are the Wall Street LE pens and the Manhattan pens.

[macaddicted]

Cosmopolitan that Bryant had done. Stacked coin celluloid, divina shape.

[MBFan]

Only have the one, a Homo Sapiens Bronze Age.

 

The HS is the first pen that really impressed me; it's the first pen that I've owned that I look at because it looks SO amazing, the first one that I reach for, not only for its gorgeous nib, but because of the sheer joy of holding and using it.

[mirosc]

1) Homo Sapiens Bronze

2) Divina Elegance

 

If Visconti only changed the obtrusive clip...

[Johnboy976]

The clip has always been an irritant of mine, but since I never clip pens to my pocket, it's always a minor irritant.

Edited March 5, 2016 by Johnboy976

[migo984]

My favourite by a very long way is my Opera Tramedautore. A really beautiful pen that writes like a dream.

 

I did love my new Rembrandt in Pearly Green, until some bright spark sadly decided to call the finish "Special Ops". I really dislike all things military, so that description made it ugly in my mind, and turned me off the pen, which is sad. So I'm going to fill it with a really bright pink ink in protest and to counteract the military association. Hopefully the pen really will end up being mightier than the sword :-)

[zchen]

Homo Sapien Maxi

Opera

Van Gogh Maxi

[mulrich]

My Homo Sapiens Bronze would be my favorite if it weren't for the EF nib, which is a bit sharp for my liking.

[aderoy]

Would have to be:

 

1) Millennium Arc Rainbow EF

2) Van Gogh Maxi F (old style with K-Lock not screw cap)

[thott]

Beside my other Viscontis my absolute favorites are my both Homo Sapiens Bronze with B and Stub nib.

These both pens are since years in daily use.

 

http://www.dg8fbv.de/img2/HS-2.JPG

 

Greeting

Thomas

Edited March 5, 2016 by thott

[Calamus plasticus]

Homo sapiens steel midi: my unexpected classic

[Johnboy976]

It seems as if the Homo Sapiens consistently wins out.

[Joe in Seattle]

HS Bronze, EF nib. Writes like a dream. Perfection in lava.

[PAKMAN]

It's between these

AG925 Titanium Skelton or

Divina Elegance Maxi in Blue

[mreich1964]

Michelangelo. Nice weight/balance smooth nib.

[Appelboompen]

The 23kt Palladium Dreamtouch nib of Visconti is amazing, any pen you put this nib on is great!

 

But especially the HS Lava has a great balance and performs great with this nib.

[s_t_e_v_e]

Look what you guys have done!

I have to start saving up for a Homo Sapiens now

I never though I would want that pen. I saw it for the first time at the Atlanta Pen show in 2010 (Visconti was there to launch it) and really wasn't interested because of the material used. It looked too crude to me. I even stopped by their table, not to take a look at the Homo Sapiens, but to get the broad nib on my Van Gogh maxi exchanged for a medium, which they so graciously did even though I had purchased the pen from someone on FPN rather than an authorized retailer.

 

Now the lava material seems too cool to pass. The power filler is cool but hard to maintain, I will live with it, I guess. Overall, I think the Homo Sapiens would be a good addition to my modest collection.

[TheGreatRoe]

My top 5

 

1. Cosmos (American Dream) *
2. Millennium Arc Rainbow
3. Homo Sapiens Maxi Bronze
4. Opera Club Nordic Fjord
5. Rembrandt

* The Cosmos is made from a composite of the Lava rock and resin, but doesn't have the same feel as the Homo Sapiens. It feels much more like resin but is far less slippery.