New Pelikan M205 Announced: Petrol-Marbled

[Muncle]

I couldn't resist. Ordered mine from Goulet this afternoon.

 

I may have to discipline myself, and make me wait until September and a new first day of school!

 

 

[mizgeorge]

I have to admit, I'm still on the fence about mine. I like it, but I don't love it. I can tell that because I've had it for several weeks and still haven't inked it (and I have plenty of inks that would work very well with it. 

 

I know I need to change the nib - the stock B's are boring, boring, boring, but I don't like it enough yet to be bothered to grind it or fit another one. 

 

It might just be that it's the wrong time of year for the colour - I'm still very much wanting to play with more frivolous springy inks in silly colour pens I think. Perhaps if it had come out when it was supposed to, I might feel differently about it. 

 

For now, it can stay in its box. Perhaps next time I look at it I'll feel differently.

[Calabria]

I ordered one from Fritz Schimpf with an IF grind. I’ve been looking for an excuse to try their nib services and this seemed a good one. I'm basing this on my blue marbled version which is rather beautiful in an understated way. 

[A Smug Dill]

On 6/12/2021 at 9:00 AM, mizgeorge said:

I have to admit, I'm still on the fence about mine. I like it, but I don't love it. I can tell that because I've had it for several weeks and still haven't inked it

 

Do you have the M205 Moonstone special edition from last year? Right now I'm tossing up between getting a Moonstone, which I have seen and handled in person in a bricks-and-mortar store, and a second M205 Petrol-Marbled as a potential giveaway to a family friend, but I still haven't seen the Petrol-Marbled I ordered for myself. (It was only dispatched by DHL less than 24 hours ago by LCdC, after a bit of repeated prompting on my part.) If you have both pens, I'd be curious to know which one you like better.

[mizgeorge]

3 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Do you have the M205 Moonstone special edition from last year? Right now I'm tossing up between getting a Moonstone, which I have seen and handled in person in a bricks-and-mortar store, and a second M205 Petrol-Marbled as a potential giveaway to a family friend, but I still haven't seen the Petrol-Marbled I ordered for myself. (It was only dispatched by DHL less than 24 hours ago by LCdC, after a bit of repeated prompting on my part.) If you have both pens, I'd be curious to know which one you like better.

Interesting question. And funnily enough, one that applies well to all of the 200/205 editions. This year's looks like a 'regular' Pelikan with the coloured binde, black cap, metal fittings. The Moonstone (like all the gemstone single coloured pens) looks less like a Pelikan but I do like the understated looks and the fairly subtle sparkle on this one (and Cult have it at a great price at the moment if you use the double discount and are happy with a F/EF nib!)

 

I think of the single colour series, the Aqua was my favourite, and then it's a toss up between the Olive and the Moonstone for second place. I actively dislike the Ruby one - I think it's to do with the gold sparkle which made it look rather cheap. 

 

For a gift - especially if it were for someone that didn't already have Pelikans, I think I'd probably go with the Moonstone and a bottle of the matched ink, which is one I like very much indeed. 

[A Smug Dill]

1 hour ago, mizgeorge said:

(and Cult have it at a great price at the moment if you use the double discount and are happy with a F/EF nib!)

 

Yes, I know, but thanks all the same for pointing it out; it's been sitting in my basket, but I'm still humming and hawing as to whether to pull the trigger. As for the question of the nib, I have a pile of spare M205 EF, F, M and B nib units anyway; but I'd be ordering the EF nib if I do go ahead.

 

1 hour ago, mizgeorge said:

I think of the single colour series, the Aqua was my favourite, and then it's a toss up between the Olive and the Moonstone for second place.

 

I didn't get into Pelikan until late in 2018, so Amethyst and Aquamarine had already past me by. I'm sure I'd have liked the blue while my wife would adore the purple. As it is now, I have the Smoky Quartz, and she has the Olivine and Star Ruby; but then I also have four other M20x and M400 pens, plus a M600 Vibrant Orange (which I love) and a M815 (which I don't), and now my M205 Petrol-Marbled is on its way.

 

1 hour ago, mizgeorge said:

For a gift - especially if it were for someone that didn't already have Pelikans, I think I'd probably go with the Moonstone and a bottle of the matched ink, which is one I like very much indeed.

 

Actually, for the recipient I have in mind, I'd previously offered her a M200 Smoky Quartz (of which I had a spare new unit) as a choice of gift, alongside an Aurora Ipsilon (black barrel, sterling silver cap), a Lamy Studio Lx All Black and a Lamy cp1; she picked the cp1. I don't think she's quite into the (coloured) demonstrator aesthetic, so I thought she might like the M205 Petrol-Marbled, but an M205 Moonstone would not be her speed and it'd be a pen I order for myself. The either-or way in which I framed the situation is because I'm just itching to spend that amount of money, but not double that and get both pens, considering I also still have a drawer full of various new pens I can give her next. Maybe a Platinum #3776 Century Black Diamond or Platinum Vicoh Maki-e, if she feels she's ready for a gold-nibbed pen and is prepared to accept one from us as a present.

[sansenri]

On 6/12/2021 at 1:00 AM, mizgeorge said:

I have to admit, I'm still on the fence about mine. I like it, but I don't love it. I can tell that because I've had it for several weeks and still haven't inked it (and I have plenty of inks that would work very well with it. 

 

I know I need to change the nib - the stock B's are boring, boring, boring, but I don't like it enough yet to be bothered to grind it or fit another one. 

 

It might just be that it's the wrong time of year for the colour - I'm still very much wanting to play with more frivolous springy inks in silly colour pens I think. Perhaps if it had come out when it was supposed to, I might feel differently about it. 

 

For now, it can stay in its box. Perhaps next time I look at it I'll feel differently.

 

It is really a matter of preferences...

I've skipped quite a few of the recent M200 releases, and I could not in any way make myself like the Moonstone, while this one has a classic Pelikan M200 look to me.

I managed to get it with a nice BB, but a B would have been good, I don't find Pelikan M200 B nibs boring at all, they are probably the most bouncy steel B nibs available on the market! Lots of B nibs around, but none is bouncy like these.
Also, Pelikan has done quite a number of blue pens, but this colour looks rather different.

The Gewitterwolke ink sample I got from Fritz Schimpf goes rather well with it too.

[Uncial]

I caved in. It arrived a couple of days ago. I'd kill for this as an m800 but it's a lovely pen.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I'll take back what I said back on May11th....I do need a B....and why just buy the nib?

 

I'm off to visit the Wizard, tomorrow ...gasp...morning.

If it's as pretty as it looks, I'll walk out the door with it.

 

I am weak willed......I do have enough semi-flex in BB, so don't need that on a 200.

[sansenri]

you will not regret a M200 B, Bo Bo, as you have many times said, M200 nibs are regular size, so a B is still a very usable size, and a bouncy B is even more unusual than a bouncy F. They are quite unique nibs, considering they are modern.

If you also get a nice pen with it... then congrats!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Dithering time,  BB...IM or IB??? Tomorrow.....so help me dither.

 

I found I have a B in that Ruby Star....that was less glittery than expected.

I have M's in two 200's and a 215. I do like them.

[chromantic]

4 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

[....] Ruby Star....that was less glittery than expected.

 

I'm relieved to hear that, Bo Bo, as I just ordered one.

[Bo Bo Olson]

No IB or IM in Pelikan catalog for the 200's ....so Fritz must have bought them all up. or Does have a nib grinder.

 

Only to B.....no BB in the catalog for 200's either.

 

So the owner of the B&M and I talked...I now have a price he's willing to pay for an Italic grind to the gold smith I know....now to find time to walk a mine and talk fountain pens.

She learned to be a gold smith in East Germany, so started with fountain pen nibs.

I can show her Pendelton Browns CI B, Francis Goossens BB down to B stub, , so she has an idea of what to do....if she want's to make some pocket money.

 

Got the pen in B. He ordered two, so I got choice, one was a bit more uniform, the other 2/3rs was more interesting, the last third too dull.

With some Edelsteine Sapphire....not a bad non-saturated; slightly pastel  blue (light shading in B), is one of his better selling inks here in Heidelberg at my B&M.....where no one ever heard of Parker Penmann sapphire; so couldn't be disappointed.

[Muncle]

Saw mine today. Beautiful. Deep colors, and one section where it just dives down to black. Almost feels like there is a spot in the universe absent of light.

 

I am waiting for a very, very special moment to ink it up.

[Calabria]

Mine arrived today after I got home from surfing - a true Pacific green. With a Schimpf IF nib. Inked with MB Midnight Blue for now.

 

The only question is: Should I swap the cap for one I have in a black M205 with silver finial? Or keep it minimal? How do you all feel about the black cap ring?

[A Smug Dill]

On 6/30/2021 at 9:53 AM, Calabria said:

Should I swap the cap for one I have in a black M205 with silver finial? Or keep it minimal? How do you all feel about the black cap ring?

 

I have a similar dilemma, and am very tempted to swap the silver-ringed cap from my M205 Blue-Marbled over to my M205 Petrol-Marbled. The chatoyance of the Blue-Marbled barrel makes the pen visually brighter or more silver (on the lighter-coloured sides) than the Petrol-Marbled barrel, and somehow better gets away with having a darker-looking, black-ringed cap that makes the Petrol-Marbled pen as supplied looks rather duller.

[Muncle]

On 6/29/2021 at 7:53 PM, Calabria said:

The only question is: Should I swap the cap for one I have in a black M205 with silver finial? Or keep it minimal? How do you all feel about the black cap ring?

Do it, knowing that in 50 years your pen will be a controversial topic among thisforum, with people pulling out marketing examples with a silver final, others pulling out anecdotal evidence, discussing about which model exactly it is!😆

[Bo Bo Olson]

Mine has a silvery cap band.,,,,I thought it was the black one that got changed out.

[Calabria]

5 hours ago, Muncle said:

Do it, knowing that in 50 years your pen will be a controversial topic among thisforum, with people pulling out marketing examples with a silver final, others pulling out anecdotal evidence, discussing about which model exactly it is!😆

Haha 

[aimi]

9 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Mine has a silvery cap band.,,,,I thought it was the black one that got changed out.

You're so lucky haha I think everyone wants one with a silver band