Crónicas Estilográficas

In 2015 , a “techincal partnership” between luxury brand Davidoff and Sailor gave rise to the Very Zino line of pens which were, in actual t...

Yet another example of a music nib . Japanese pen makers have remained faithful to the idea of the music nib for a long time, and that de...

The Japanese word “kanreki” refers to the celebration of the 60th birthday. For the occasion, the birthday guy wears a red outfit composed b...

We know of the existence of Sailor nibs labeled as S –particularly in the 1990s- instead of as H, as is more common. The obvious understand...

We have just seen that the Pilot's model Custom 74 has been in the market for over 30 years . But what about the direct competitors in t...

If only for the sake of documenting Ban-ei (挽栄) pens at large, it might be worth to publish a family picture of nibs used on them. Ban-e...

In many a pen forum, the Pilot Custom Urushi , marketed initially in 2016, raised a discussion—what is better, a Custom Urushi or a Sailor K...

This text is just an addendum to the previous Chronicle . Soon after publishing it I could get my hands on another Precious Wood pen by S...

Dating Sailor pens in often tricky. As I have shown previously, the date stamped on their nibs between the late 1960s and 2017 wa...