This document discusses luxury fountain pens from various manufacturers that are encrusted with precious gems like diamonds. It provides details on 10 high-end pens, the most expensive being an Aurora fountain pen encrusted with 2,000 diamonds costing $10,47,000. Other luxury pens featured are from manufacturers like Caran d'Ache, Anita Tan, Mont Blanc, and Visconti and are made with gold and encrusted with hundreds to thousands of diamonds and sometimes other gems. The document outlines the features and prices of these highly decorated limited edition luxury fountain pens.
5. Parker v/s Pio Cardin
PARKER
More Demand
More Durable
Life Time
More Smooth
Best Design
Best Quality
Metal Body
PIO CARDIN
Less Demand
Less Durable
3 years Warranty
Less Smooth
Good Design
Low Quality
Brass Body
8. Aurora is a pen manufacturer based
in Italy known for its luxury writing
instruments. The company’s
Diamante fountain pen is known for
its smooth flow of writing delivery,
though it may be hard to
concentrate on your penmanship
with this pen when it has around
2,000 diamonds encrusted all over
its body. Yes, 2,000 diamonds,
making this pen not just a writing
instrument, but a veritable jewelry
as well. To top off the statement of
wealth that this pen seems to
proclaim, the nib of the fountain pen
comes in gold. Only one Diamante
pen is created each year by the
manufacturer, thus making it a rare
collectible.
Price :
$ 10,47,000
9. Caran d’Ache is a well-regarded
manufacturer of pencils, writing
instruments and fine art products
based in Switzerland. It should
probably add designer of
gemstones to its list of
credentials. After all, it has
created a limited edition fountain
pen that is encrusted with 850
diamonds. The cap of the
fountain pen also has 26 lines
that are studded with 22
baguette-cut diamonds. The
entire body of the fountain pen is
already luxurious enough, as it is
made from white gold. And yes,
this limited edition pen does
write quite well. Even if it does
not, you certainly would not be
throwing this away.
PRICE :
$10,00,000
10. Touted as a girly pen as the body
is molded from 24k pink gold.
Originally called the First
Diamond and Gold Pen, it was
created by Anita Tan and features
1,888 diamonds weighing 48
carats, including 161 that have
brilliant colors. Tsavorite
gemstones estimated to be 2
billion years old and weighing 43
carats also adorn this pen. The
gems form diamond, heart and
flower shapes in the middle of
the pen. Tan supposedly drew
inspiration from the cosmos at
the start of 2012 when the stars
and planets realigned.
Price :
$10,00,000
11. What happens when one of the best
creators of luxury watches, writing
instruments and leather team up with
one of the most prestigious high
jewelry manufacturer in the world?
That was what happened when Mont
Blanc and Van Cleef & Arpels
collaborated on this limited edition
pen, aptly named the Mystery
Masterpiece. The luxury-writing
instrument was meant to celebrate the
centenary of the German giant, and it
did not disappoint. The pen was
studded with 840 diamonds. Clients
can then choose whether to add
emeralds, rubies or sapphires to
provide the contrast to the diamonds.
The result is truly a masterpiece in
every sense of the word.
Price :
$730,000
12. Only 1,140 were
created by Caran
d’Ache in this tribute
to Gothic art. The pen
is made of sterling
silver coated in
rhodium, with a
Gothic window of
rosette and fleur de
lis on both sides
combining in brilliant
colors.
PRICE :
$406453
13. The La Modernista
pen has 5,072
diamonds weighing
30 carats encrusted
all over its body. It
also features 96
rubies, while the nib
is made of gold
weighing 18 carats
and coated in
rhodium. It took the
manufacturer six
months to finish this
pen by hand.
Price :
$275,000
14. The pen was given this
name to honor Prince
Rainier III of Monaco who
passed away in 2005 at the
age of 81. Only 81 pieces
were made. The body of
the pen is molded from 18-
carat white gold and is
encrusted with 996 facet-
cut diamonds and 92
rubies. The clip ring also
has 19 rubies on it. The
nib is made of gold
measuring 18 carats.
Price :
$260,200
15. This pen is
available in white
gold. The body is
made of white gold
weighing 18
carats. Diamonds
are encrusted in
the body, and the
nib is made of 18
carat gold. The
pen features a
double reservoir
filling system.
Price : $57,700
16. The Forbidden City
fountain pen from the
Italian pen
manufacturer Visconti
is made of black resin.
It features an innovative
filling system called the
Power Filler, and boasts
of gold and diamonds in
the body and nib.
Price : $42,200
17. This pen is made from
yellow gold weighing
18 carats. An
Acanthus leaf is
engraved into the
pen. It is coated with
rhodium and tipped
with iridium. The pen
is made by hand and
customized in
Germany.
Price : $24,000
18.
19. Ever sharp Skyline (1941-1948): Let’s
call it the Balance 2.0. This pen looked
great, and that elegant derby and
excellent nib has made it a well-
deserved, all-time classic. Think you’re
an alpha collector? Let’s see you run
down un-dinged sets of both the gold
fill and the solid gold pen/pencils —
that’ll take a while.
Price : $46,120
20.
21. Sheaffer Balance (1929-
c. 1942): Not only a great
design that changed the world
of pens forever from staid
stuff to exciting streamlined
shapes, but a well-built pen:
Many Balances are still in
service.
Price : $60,000
22.
23. Waterman Patrician (1929-
c. 1939): A stunner in looks, rarity,
size and desirability among
collectors. Sadly, I’ll never own
one because they’re too fragile
and too much of a display pen —
and not a user — for me. Plus,
they cost way too much for a
working dad to be collecting.
Price : $80,000
24.
25. Wahl metal pens (1920s): Greek
key, lines, silver, gold. Not only do
these 1920s classics boast some
of the nicest nibs in all of pendom,
but they have phenomenal
economies of size: Small in the
pocket but long and lean when
posted. For magpies like me, it’s
where style, quality, and price
meet in collector heaven.
Price : $140,000
26.
27. Parker Vacumatic (1933-1948): If
you don’t like Vacs, you’re either
scared of the funky filling system
or, like me, scared to get too
involved with them because there
are a daunting number of styles
and colors and sizes to collect and
once you’re hooked it’s an all-
consuming passion. Whatever.
These are great pens, men
amongst boys.
Price : $200,000
28.
29. Wahl-Ever sharp Doric (1931-
1938): Another great pen I can’t
own because they’re just too
valuable and beautiful for me. I’d
use ‘em, abuse ‘em, and break
‘em. That doesn’t mean I can’t
appreciate them. These and the
Coronets are simply the most
elegant, high-class pens people
can collect nowadays.
Price : $250,000
30.
31. Sheaffer Snorkel (1952-1959): David Nishimura
put it perfectly in an interview I did once with him
— vintage Sheaffer are inexpensive for
collectors today because they were the best
pens made at the time they were current. And
they still are, today. That’s why they’re so
plentiful, easy to get up and running again after
years of dormancy, and usually remain in good
condition. These are some of my favorite “road
warrior” pens to take on business trips and
vacations, from the cheapest non-White Dots to
the PFMs. Lever filling TMs, Touchdowns,
Triumphs and their cousins are all great pens
(and nice lookers) too, but I had to narrow things
down to wedge them into a top 10.
Price : $430,000
32.
33. Parker “51” (1941-1972?): The one, the
only, the greatest pen you can carry in
your pocket. The Pen From Another
Planet that you find in the flea market
tomorrow can probably be inked up and
used after a good water flush — and
that’s because the design actually was
as perfect as the hype in the ads said it
was. There’s a first time (and last time)
for everything, even when we’re talking
about Madison Avenue’s shuck and
jive.
Price : $580,000
34.
35. Wear ever Pacemaker (1940s): Yeah, you heard me.
These great button fillers with the solid 14K nibs are
the most underrated, under priced pens in the hobby.
You can get them new in box, new old stock for $30.
With papers. And they look every bit as good as the
top-tier pens of the day, and are guaranteed to draw
attention and compliments from collectors and non-
collectors alike when you whip one out and start
writing. I shouldn’t be saying this, exposing a hidden
gem for the rest of the pen world to exploit.
Price :
$730,000
36.
37. 1948): Simply the best vintage
pen, in my view. Solid
construction, great looks
(especially the blue ones),
excellent nibs and for my hand,
the ideal size. The Vacumatic
mechanism holds a gallon of ink
when filled, and the semi-
transparent barrel let me know
when we’re on the last lap, ink-
wise.
Price : $850,000
