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Re:Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product fr... by iancmceachern on Monday May 15, 2023 @08:36PM (#35956442)
Absolutely do. My wife and I regularly attend pen shows, own many different brands of pens not just monte blanc pens, in fact monte blanc are the minority in our collection.

In the fountain pen world Monte Blanc is like Rolex or Tag is to the watch world. One od the foundational brands of the genre.

Re:Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product fr... by toadi on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:32PM (#35957179)
My personal favorites are waterman just because during highschool this was my favorite tool to write. The one I had at that time was expensive for me at that time ;)
Re:Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product fr... by iancmceachern on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:32AM (#35963229)
They make very nice pens, a few others to check out besides Waterman and Monte Blanc would be Sailor, Pilot, Carolina pen company, Kweco, I'm sure I'm missing lots...
Re:Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product fr... by iancmceachern on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:34AM (#35963260)
Replied to my own comment to share what people do with these pens:

https://www.artistandmasterpenman.com/

Re:Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product fr... by pyuser583 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @10:48PM (#35983647)
In the watch world Rolex has a bit of a “poser” quality to it. It’s what watch people who are trying hard to show off get.

Unlike Patek Phillipe which is for true sophisticates.