Montegrappa Marconi Model 150 Fountain Pen (Limited Edition)Medium

Coming July 2024

Montegrappa’s Marconi Model 150 Fountain Pen pays tribute to an Italian icon and titan of technological achievement.

The inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was a a Nobel Prize-winner whose curiosity and ingenuity led to one of historys most consequential discoveries. Todays connected world is built on Marconis groundwork, while the wealth and celebrity he enjoyed during his lifetime make him a notable precursor to todays Silicon Valley overlords.

To commemorate 150 years since the inventors birth, the Marconi Model 150 is a period piece that elaborates Marconis work. Material, design, and engineering details return to the aesthetics of a pioneering age in editions of 150 fountain pens and rollerballs. Our design uses high-tech modular componentry, interactivity, and imaginative accessories to let owners share a profound sense of invention.

Brass is used as a principal material for the body and grip section and for framing modular segments made from palisander rosewood, braided wire, and polycarbonate. All brass elements are precision-milled on CNC-machines and use rose-gold electroplating to mimic copper ferrules, winders, and other details. A steel-wire pocket clip also uses a copper effect to simulate a vintage transmitter.

Mechanical complications provide additional highlights via a domed resin cap top with telegraph key haptics and a polycarbonate, particle-filled barrel segment a reference to the coherer wave-detection device that was pivotal to Marconis discovery.

Fountain pens use a concealed Power-Push mechanism, and carry an 8mm, 18K rose-gold nib (EF, F, M, B, Stub 1.1) with an ebonite feed. On the nib, custom engraving reproduces wave forms on a copper-colored ground, and pens are supplied with a custom-engraved bottle of black ink.

Custom packaging is perfectly married to the editions theme, providing owners with a wooden work cabinet finished with steel plaques, mirrors and an acrylic lid. The designs spring-loaded cap top allows it to be suspended between two Montegrappite nodes. Alternately, owners can dismantle the pen and use the bureaus compartments to clean, charge and arrange the various components.

Specifications:

• Material: Stainless Steel, Rosewood, Polycarbonate
• Trim: Stainess Stell, Brass
• Nib: 18k Gold
• Filling System: Piston
• Packaging: Special
• Included: Ink Bottle (50ml)
• Length: 162 mm
• Diameter: 20.0 mm
• Weight: 136.00 gr

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