1. The Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece
This pen is a joint venture between Mont blanc and Van Cleef & Arpels, and is the most expensive writing device ever created in history. It carries a freaking price tag of $730,000!
Every pen is adored with 840 diamonds and more than 20 carats of gemstones set in a Van Cleef & Arpels patented ‘Mystery Setting’ that conceals the stone settings. There are three variations of the pen, set either with rubies, sapphires or emeralds, and accented by diamonds. It took artisans over 18 months to manufacture this pen.
2. La Modernista Diamond Pens
This pen was made by Caran d’Ache, a Switzerland based company in 1999 as homage to architect Antonio Gaudi.
At an auction, this fountain pen found a buyer at $265,000. The auction was held at Harrods in London.
La Modernista Diamonds is made of rhodium-coated solid silver components.
It boasts of an 18-carat rhodium-coated gold nib and is set with a total of 5,072 Wesselton diamonds weighing in at 20-carats, as well as 96 rubies totalling 32-carats.
Robert Perron personally hand-made this pen and it took him six months to complete this true masterpiece of writing instruments. He was acclaimed as a master jeweler in the UK.
3. Ripple HRH Limited Edition Visconti fountain pen
Ripple HRH Limited Edition Visconti fountain pen is made of 18K white gold and diamonds and with two-tone 18K gold nib, and costs a mind blowing $57,000.
It has double reservoir filling system and is sold in two variations : white gold and black. Another distinguished Visconti pen is the Forbidden City HRH Limited Edition fountain pen.
The pen is made of black resin, 18K gold and diamonds and contains a Power Filler innovative filling system invented by Visconti. The pen was sold at a price of $42,200.
4. Grayson Tighe Limited Edition fountain and rollerball pens
The nib of Grayson Tighe fountain pens is custom hand-made in Germany with 18K yellow gold. It’s engraved with a specially designed Acanthus leaf, tipped with iridium, and two toned with rhodium. Grayson Tighe rollerball pens have an advanced refill that has a 1 Year cap-off time.
These pens are sold for a price between $22,000 and $24,000. They are 18K gold Victorian royalty executive custom made collectors pens.
5. OMAS Limited Edition Pens
This Corinthian style inspired votive monument erected by Lysicrates is recreated on the cap and the Laocoon sculpture dominates the barrel. The clip of the pen illustrates one of the existing columns of the votive monument.
The cap has a pure diamond set on the end of it. This collector set is sold at $16,500.
6. David Oscarson Pens
David Oscarson has introduced a unique collection through Pierrot White Fountain Pen, representing the old world craftsmanship at an attractive range of designer pens.
In fact, David Oscarson is the first pen manufacturer to integrate five colors of hard enamel and three levels of guilloche on each fountain pen, which is finished in rhodium vermeil with natural backgrounds.
The Pierrot White Fountain Pen costs around $4,900.
7. La Dona Menagerie Fountain Pen
This masterpiece is handcrafted by Cartier, and they belong to the most exquisite designer range of writing instruments priced at around $4,000. Cartier La Dona Menagerie is named after the 1940s, cine star Maria Felix, who was also known as ‘La Dona- the Mexican Marilyn Monroe’.
Maria Felix requested the luxury jewelery designer Cartier to customize a crocodile necklace in gold. The necklace inspired Cartier to design and develop 888 individually numbered fine pieces of La Dona pens, the second offering in the Menagerie Collection. The pens are made of expensive materials like gold. Cartier pens have a gold-plated nib, which is carving of a crocodile head.
8. Fifth Avenue rollerball and fountain pens
Only 1929 of these pens were manufactured. The luxurious New York Fifth Avenue rollerball and fountain pens were hand-made by S T Dupont and teh task was arduous with 160 hours of supervision.
Result was taupe- and brunette-colored lacquer fountain pens, each valued at $2400. These pens are embellished with a gold and silver relief overlay, which features a central globe design.
9. Graf von Faber-Castel Pens
The Graf von Faber-Castell Custom Pens are made of wood, unlike the others we have seen so far and it comes in different variations.
The outer layer of the barrel is made of Indian satinwood and this pen was named as Pen of the Year 2008.
No fewer than 84 Satinwood rectangles are hand-cut for the filigree herringbone pattern.
The pen is crowned by a chessboard-facted citrine gemstone, platinised fittings and an 18-carat bicolour gold nib, carefully run in by hand.
It comes in a wooden case with a brochure and a certificate for the pen collector.
It’s priced at $2,000.
10. Conway Stewart Westminster Teal Pen
British pen manufacturer Conway Stewart has released the latest version of Conway Stewart Westminster Teal Pen in teal enamel.
The pen takes its design cues from the palace of Westminster with its Gothic style engraving on the cap and barrel. The small diamond-shaped recesses mimic the detail on the palace and the tiny oak leaves are a symbol of England.
The pen is available in an edition of 100 fountain pen or rollerball writing modes.
The Conway Stewart Westminster Teal Pen is priced at $1,800.
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