Crónicas Estilográficas

Ah, the fascination for the third tine… Today’s pen is a so far unknown model. We can date it, however, to have been made in the second ha...

This is a Chronicle with a lot of pics… The Platinum #3776 series of fountain pens is an old one. Its first mode l was launched by 1978. I...

The Platinum 3776 Century is the current best selling fountain pen in Japan. It is, by now, a well known product even outside of Japan—a bal...

The Birdie was an inexpensive fountain pen made by Pilot in the 1980s. In a nutshell, it is an all metal pen, stainless steel, with ...

The current Pilot model Custom in the all-too-well-known balance shape, so dear to Montblanc, has its starting point in modern times in 1983...

The pen of the day is not Japanese, but German. In fact, it is a full fledged Montblanc in its biggest and more representative model—the 149...

Music nibs are rare finds in the wild, save for the obvious exception of those currently on production. From a purely statistical considerat...

I will be a bit narcissistic today and will show my collection of music nibs. All of them are Japanese. Clock-wise from the top, the...