New Pelikan M670 Warm Grey.

[Christopher Godfrey]

@Bo Bo: excuse the temporary hijack -- you mentioned above a Parker Duofold Jr. and I think that was what I had as my very first fountain pen at boarding school at age 8!  (Or was it perhaps a Slimfold?  What was the difference?  I think I had the Junior).

 

Sorry: back to matters Pelikan...

[Mercian]

9 hours ago, Christopher Godfrey said:

@Bo Bo: excuse the temporary hijack -- you mentioned above a Parker Duofold Jr. and I think that was what I had as my very first fountain pen at boarding school at age 8!  (Or was it perhaps a Slimfold?  What was the difference?  I think I had the Junior).

According to…

https://parkerpens.net/ukduofold.html

 

…the differences between the UK Duofold ‘Slimfold’ and the ‘Junior’ are in their sizes, and the numbers on their nibs:

 

Model                  Length(mm)    Girth (mm)    Number on nib

Duofold Junior        135                   12                          10

Slimfold                   125                   11                            5

 

Unless one has both pens side-by-side, I reckon that the easiest way to work out which one one has is the number stamped on the nib.

 

Slàinte,
M.

[Bo Bo Olson]

10 hours ago, Christopher Godfrey said:

excuse the temporary hijack

Of course, but I wander all over more than you by far....IMO with out little hijacks, this place would be short posted and boring.

[PAKMAN]

On 8/10/2024 at 3:16 PM, encremental said:

DilettanteG - not long to wait!

 

 

 

Classic 200 Golden Lapis - Passion (pelikan-passion.com)

 

John

OK now stop! Now I have to have this one! SO pretty!

[carola]

I have to say, I do like the looks of this one. In the pictures the colour of the body looks pretty much like the M600 White Striped should have looked like according to the promotion pictures (a warm off-white like ivory instead of the cold, flat white which made me definitely NOT buy it). I also like the black trim and nib that make it look like a grown up Stormtrooper. 😊

 

I hope I will be able to see it in person some time soon. Until now, I have refrained from buying any white Pelikans, this one might be able to change my mind (if it looks like its promotion pictures, mind you).

[Bo Bo Olson]

This 200 is nice, and I too had worries about the white, section and cap, which as of yet is not a problem.

[carola]

I didn´t buy any of the white Pelikans simply because I don´t like their looks (almost made an exception for the M405 Silver White, but then went "Naaaah, I´ll pass" again). The cracking and discoloration reported by some people doesn´t help their cause, but my main objection really has to do with the combination of colours, lots of cold white and gold. Nope nope nope.

[lamarax]

So... anybody got this? Supposedly it's come out by now (?)

 

No, apparently it hasn't yet 😑

[lamarax]

Soo... here are a couple of actual photos of the thing:

 

 

 

Also: a video from Appelboom

 

...quite interesting, me thinks 🤔

[Lam1]

Now, these photos make it much more interesting (thanks @lamarax ).

If only it were a M1000 …

[alfredop]

 

Coming back to the comparison with the M100, the pen is like a stormtrooper dirty after the Battle of Endor.

Here mine bought on Saturday in Hannover during the TintenTurme event.

 

I noted that respect to my last acquisitions the EF nib writes a little bit thicker, maybe this is due to the ruthenium plating that add thickness to the iridium point.

 

Alfredo

 

[Waltz For Zizi]

Can someone older than me (8 years in the hobby) chime in. It seems to me that since Pelikan has changed hands new special editions seem to be rolling out non stop. I seem to remember 5-6 years ago there were  at least 3 times less new special edition pens released in a year than now. I wanted to collect the m600 pens I like but even so, I quit. My budget is not so big that I can afford even only the special editions that I like from a single model. I guess I'm just too poor. LOL

DOn't get me wrong I like the variation, but when they pump pens like this, it feels less special and compeling to me to buy them, since I know there will be another one just around the corner, and just like this I haven't bought a Pelikan pen in more than 3 years, I just can't decide between them, so I don't buy at all. LOL

[Mercian]

11 hours ago, Waltz For Zizi said:

It seems to me that since Pelikan has changed hands new special editions seem to be rolling out non stop.

I suspect that the company is currently ‘experimenting’ with colours of resin, colours of ink-window, & colours of trim, in order to help it ‘test demand’ for different colours.

 

If, as seems depressingly possible, they are never going to return to making pens that have transparent bodies between the stripes, they will presumably want to make pens in a range of solid-coloured body/trim/ink-window colours that will be popular with the public.

 

Then again, the company could be making a series of special editions while they re-establish the production facility for making the traditional clear-bodied striped pens… 🤞🤞

[Bo Bo Olson]

The new French company bought Pelikan up only this year.

So the churning of models was the old company.

[stephanos]

@alfredop:  I didn't know that there had been an event at the Tintenturm in Hanover this past weekend. Where did you find the information that led you to go? I ask, because I live close enough to Hanover that I may have been able to attend... Sigh, my wallet thanks me.

 

Now, to the present M670 model. I'm very much on the fence. I really like my model 100 "stormtrooper", and this one looks like it might be a larger sibling of that. It looks really good. On the other hand, it's very expensive, there are other Pelikan models to spend money on (looking at you, Golden Lapis) and I do already have a stormtrooper. I really don't know if I could justify the expense, even using the sorts of very dodgy justifications that an enthusiast might use.

 

I hope that someone has a model that I can see in person at the Pelikan hub next week...

[Bo Bo Olson]

Out side 5-6 of the 200's, I've only bought 4 other new pens, and they were all on sale.

One a good decade ago was a Pelikan 605 at Galeria Kaufhaus for €99.

[stric75]

That warm grey is not bad. That dak gray trim… not so sure. Interesting 

[stephanos]

18 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Out side 5-6 of the 200's, I've only bought 4 other new pens, and they were all on sale.

One a good decade ago was a Pelikan 605 at Galeria Kaufhaus for €99.

 

The M605 wasn't by any chance a solid mid-to-dark blue? I too bought one of those about a decade ago (2015). Although it wasn't on sale and I paid more for it than you did, it was still comparatively inexpensive. I had gone in to see whether they had a Polar Lights (model M6xx), which alas they didn't, and the blue M605 was a consolation...

[alfredop]

On 9/20/2024 at 4:56 PM, stephanos said:

@alfredop:  I didn't know that there had been an event at the Tintenturm in Hanover this past weekend. Where did you find the information that led you to go? I ask, because I live close enough to Hanover that I may have been able to attend... Sigh, my wallet thanks me.

 

 

Hi Stephanos,

I was informed by another Pelikan collector. However you can see that there is Pelikan TinteTurme facebook group and the event is also on the European Pen Show Calendar (https://euroshows.wixsite.com/calendar).

 

Alfredo

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

7 hours ago, stephanos said:

The M605 wasn't by any chance a solid mid-to-dark blue?

Held in a 'forefinger up' grip.