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Today, I was over at my B&M, and wanted to see the new MB bottle, while waiting for a clerk, I looked in the glass covered display case on the wall.

E-6,000, then the next was E 4,000++, the next was E 2,500....then I realized I'd missed, the 1.....E-16,000 for a gold MB...it was hard to read the box, I think it said 1987....

E-16,000 for a gold MB.(@$25,000)

It wasn't that it was too ornate...but it did not look like a comfortable writing pen.....sort of clunky looking.

My that pen next to it for only 4,000 Euro was cheap.

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I don't remember the price and the model but it was a LE pen from F.P. Journe, a watchmaker. It was expensive was all that I could remember. I didn't get to touch it as it was in a fancy glass case.

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Most expensive FP I've ever seen in person? Probably some FP in the bottom of a box I saw at a fleamarket one day and passed over to look at a book or a bunch of vacuum tubes knowing my luck. ;) My L2K is the most I KNOW I've seen, though I'm sure I've seen MB's and such at some point...

 

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In person, it was a Japanese made Urushi or Maki-e for somewhere around $15,000. I was not comfortable handling it, and could not stop looking at the cheap clip on this otherwise gorgeous pen.

Then there is the The Aurora Diamante: Price $1,300,000.

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Thus, far it would have to be a Waterman Serenite made of platinum and 'stuf'. This pen was part of a set of four and they each themed an element. Each pen approx 33000USD? The pen had a certain heft to it...

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Is there some sort of scale or unwritten law somewhere that the more expensive a pen is the uglier it gets?

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Is there some sort of scale or unwritten law somewhere that the more expensive a pen is the uglier it gets?

 

Seems like it. So many of them seem to be exercises in just how much bling one can possibly cram onto a single pen.

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The most expensive pen I have seen is the Visconti Divine Proportions (non-LE) which retails at about $800.

 

The most expensive pen in the world is not a MontBlanc -- it is the Aurora Diamond, which has 30 karats (!) of diamonds coating the pen, and is made in a quantity of one per year. It retails for around 1.3 million dollars, or 1 million Euros.

 

 

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Is there some sort of scale or unwritten law somewhere that the more expensive a pen is the uglier it gets?

 

Seems like it. So many of them seem to be exercises in just how much bling one can possibly cram onto a single pen.

 

I think all that ugly is a bad joke primarily done to keep Chinese pen makers busy trying to incorporate those design elements into inexpensive Chinese pens using cheaper materials. And I don't mean fakes. Its just that every ugly Chinese FP I've ever seen has copied the ugliest part of the pen from some high end or 'luxury brand' European pen.

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The one I used to sign the marriage license.

 

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Well this thread is just in time for a couple of pictures I took at the Chicago Pen show. This thing was massive. This would probably qualify as one of the most expensive and the biggest functional pen in the world. Yes it was a Parker and the gentleman who had it on display was not into pens; just a seller. He did not know much about it and said it was from 1920s. The pen uncapped was almost 10 to 11 inches long and about an inch in diameter. The seller wanted a cool $75,000 for the beast. You can also see a miniature pen of unknown origins on the right.

http://imgur.com/8rUMm.jpg

http://imgur.com/3WQyo.jpg

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Handled: MB Cervantes LE.

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Handled: a vintage Namiki clipless jumbo/Emperor sized maki-e by Matsuda

...and it was not at all ugly!

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Well this thread is just in time for a couple of pictures I took at the Chicago Pen show. This thing was massive. This would probably qualify as one of the most expensive and the biggest functional pen in the world. Yes it was a Parker and the gentleman who had it on display was not into pens; just a seller. He did not know much about it and said it was from 1920s. The pen uncapped was almost 10 to 11 inches long and about an inch in diameter. The seller wanted a cool $75,000 for the beast. You can also see a miniature pen of unknown origins on the right.

http://imgur.com/8rUMm.jpg

http://imgur.com/3WQyo.jpg

I saw this one at the show but I didn't ask the seller what he wanted for it. The most expensive pen I've ever handled was a Tibaldi Bentley pen at the Chicago Pen Show that retailed for $8500.

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Question: how much would it really cost to make a superlatively functional fountain pen? $200? Take that away from the price of any of these bibelots and the difference is nothing but ego-polish.

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I do my best not to touch pens I can't afford, and am still trying to figure out how rich/crazy you have to be to buy a $750,000 fountain pen instead of a house, car or any number of other things.

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Can't really say which one was the most expensive. Probably not even one of these, but the Parker archives 3-ton solid steel safe had a few nice ones (see below). The Archives

 

 

 

 

http://parkercollector.com/bilder_pennor/_parker_archives/overlays-archive.jpg

 

 

Outside of the Archives it's probably my own Parker #30.

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http://parkercollector.com/bilder/parker-30.jpg

 

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