Would you buy this fountain pen for US$1.3 million?
We look at four of the world’s most expensive - and coveted - fountain pens by Montblanc, Dunhill-Namiki, Caran D’Ache and Aurora
Gone are the days when fountain pens were essential parts of our daily lives.
For decades, students in the West were forced to practise using them and use them exclusively when writing in their exercise books and exams.
They were so ubiquitous throughout Western society that expatriates hoping to master the essentials of the local language, when arriving in Hong Kong in the 1970s, would have found themselves having to learn the name for them, mak sui bat, as early as Lesson 2 in Sidney Lau’s definitive Elementary Cantonese textbook.
Those days seem a world way from today’s focus on our digitalised way of life – writing with desktop computer keyboards and texting on smartphones.
Yet there is still huge interest in using – and collecting – fountain pens.
Many of the world’s leading pen makers and luxury brands are continuing to improve the quality and craftsmanship of fountain pens, which are sold to connoisseurs and collectors for millions of dollars.
Here we take a look at four of the most expensive fountain pens ever made.
1. Montblanc – Atelier
