Crónicas Estilográficas

The first Pilot Capless , we saw, cost JPY 6000 in 1963. The second model, in 1964 , JPY 3000. In Spring of 1965, the price went down to JPY...

On a recent chronicle I spoke of the Pilot Capless as one of the very few iconic pens made in Japan . Now I am showing the first model of t...

Some weeks ago, the author of the blog Write to me Often –Zeynep— spoke of the Turkish brand Scrikss and about the Spanish origin of the br...

The current Pilot’s Capless line of pens is formed by three basic models—the regular Capless (Vanishing Point in some markets), the slim Cap...

Some weeks ago I describe a green celluloid Pilot pen . The main argument of the text was about the uncertain manufacturing date given the m...

The long awaited book Fountain Pens of Japan , by Andreas LAMBROU and Masamichi SUNAMI , is expected to be released in time for the incoming...

I can think of very few truly iconic pens in Japan. On the contrary, in the West it seems that all major brands have one or several icons th...