Montblanc Heritage Rouge et Noir Child.
It’s exhausting to think about a time when the now-ubiquitous rollerball and ballpoint pens weren’t round. However that was certainly the case earlier than fashionable engineering introduced first the ballpoint and later the rollerball pen, and with them the convenience of a brand new cartridge-based ink provide. However there have been many modern strides alongside the way in which, providing writers one thing new and completely different and creative.
One such innovation was the diminutive fountain pens from the Nineteen Twenties, designed as an on-the-go various to full-sized pens. And Montblanc’s smallest pens from that period proved a boon. Thus the brand new Montblanc Heritage Rouge et Noir Baby Particular Version is a reference to the previous, however with a contemporary edge.
“Evoking the cosmopolitan aptitude of the Nineteen Twenties, when journey took off on a grand scale with extra folks than ever earlier than exploring the world by practice, airplane, ship and automotive, modern conveniences akin to Montblanc moveable pens have been de rigueur,” explains Alessandra Elia, Montblanc Managing Director Writing Tradition. “By introducing a brand new interpretation of this historic writing instrument with all the fashionable developments, Montblanc celebrates a fair deeper ardour for journey and mobility as we speak.”
I first noticed the pen a number of months in the past within the palms of Montblanc CEO Nicolas Baretzki, whom I used to be interviewing about one other subject. It had all the fitting Montblanc cues, like beautiful sharpening, extraordinary fittings and a powerful nib given the pen’s small measurement. It appeared an ideal pen for pocket or purse, and its cartridge filling system made it that rather more approachable. Baretzki wasn’t sharing—both the pen or a lot data apart from this very efficient visible teaser! However I knew it was within the pipeline, and I knew it could be a hit.
The Montblanc Heritage Rouge et Noir Child Particular Version is a mere 10 cm lengthy, with a spirit impressed by its Rouge & Noir forbears. As a fast evaluation, the unique Montblanc Rouge et Noir (“Purple and Black”), which takes its moniker from the eponymous novel by the French author Stendahl, was crafted in black ebonite and fitted with a red-crowned cap (and a newfangled filling system). The identify alone makes pen collectors swoon, each for what it meant to the German model within the early a part of the 20th century and for what it means as we speak as a part of Montblanc’s intensive oeuvre.
This just-introduced interpretation is topped with an ivory-colored Montblanc emblem surrounded by red-colored resin harking back to the crimson cap tops of the unique Rouge et Noir pens. The gathering is accessible in black lacquer with platinum-coated fittings in addition to in ivory-colored lacquer with gold-coated fittings, each devoid of clips. The gathering is provided with a handcrafted 14-karat gold heritage nib engraved with the emblematic quantity “4810” (the altitude of the Mont Blanc summit), in addition to a drawing of Mont Blanc taken from an early Montblanc brand. A ballpoint and rollerball are additionally a part of the gathering.
The brand new Montblanc Heritage Rouge et Noir Child could also be paired with a helpful and enticing accent, together with a calfskin leather-based pouch with digital embossing of a mountain motif or a black or a coral-colored calfskin leather-based Meisterstück pouch.
By the way, Montblanc’s Heritage collection has carried out an important job, I feel, of conserving the spirit of the Rouge et Noir alive. Numerous particular version fashions, all impressed by the previous, have been launched because the assortment’s launch in 2016.
