A fine fountain pen is a lifetime companion ... feels good in the hand and sits reassuringly snugly in the pen storage loop. Established in 1919 by Syunchi Nakata, the Japanese company Platinum Pen Co ...

unlike their fountain pen counterparts, once the nib is washed in water. She also said demand for glass pens took off again as items of cultural value featuring the beauty of Japanese traditional ...

Waterman’s fountain pen has been handcrafted in France. The design is timeless with a brushed stainless steel body and a 23-karat gold nib. The latter is fine to enhance delicate handwriting.

I go through phases where I’ll use a rollerball or a fountain pen for a while, but I always come back to gels. They’re easy to carry around, especially the pocket Cross pen I’ve had for ...

Most pen lovers who have been nurturing their fine pen fixation for more than a ... the oldest Italian trademark for fountain pens, registered back in 1911,” Marino explains about initially ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

There’s nothing quite like using the best fountain pens to get your writing done. The whole experience is rewarding, from purchasing one and unpacking it, to using it for the first time.

Pen dealer Roy van den Brink-Budgen, 40, said there is “real warmth and personality” to writing by hand. “Even if you don’t ...

Its products are popular among stationery enthusiasts. Fountain pens are not in Mitsubishi Pencil’s product lineup. The company, which dates to 1887, is Japan’s first industrial pencil producer.

New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain ... Indian pen, I look for individual craft instead of factory engineering perfection, as I would with German and Japanese pen ...

Passengers in Japan who pay an extra 5,000 yen (US$34) can expect a dramatic drop-off as their taxi drivers transform into bodyguards or ninjas. Sanwa Koutsu, a Japanese taxi company with a 59 ...