Mont Blanc Tribute to the Mont Blanc Special Edition

Mont Blanc introduced a snowy white collection to pay tribute to Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe. It highest peaking is 4,810 metres, and straddling the French and Italian border.

Mont Blanc adopted the six glaciers and the peak of the iconic mountain as the brand’s emblem.

For those of us who does not have the chance to visit this iconic mountain, Mont Blanc setup a very cool web site which give us a mountain view to celebrate this Tribute to Mont Blanc Speical Edition.

Sailor Classic Kyo Maki-e Kimono Bijin (Lady in Kimono)

The maki-e technique is thousand years old Japanese traditional decorative technique. It has developed into many maki-e techniques, Kyo maki-e techniques is one of them. Since Heian period, Kyo maki-e decorative art can be seen at the musical instruments at the Emperors palace, at ancient temples as well various Japanese lacquer ware products.

Pelikan Special Edition Souveran M600 Green O' Green

Pelikan released a M800 Special Edition Blue-O-Blue last year. One year later, they released a M600 Special Edition Green-O-Green.

The O in both Special Edition mean the same thing. The o' is short for 'Over', which represent the material design looks. It look like several broad strokes of green (not blue) in different shades are put one over another.

Rumours, Rumours Namiki New Yukari Royale

Two By Two. Namiki discontinue two Yukari Royale last year. This year they are introducing two new Yukari Royale design; The Chrysanthem Flower and Traditional Japanese wrapper.

We are suprised by these new design was we are expecting Namiki to introduce this design that is close to the two was discontinue as it very popular.

Well! I guess the Namiki Limited Edition already give us a hint that Namiki is trying to capture new market using non-traditional design.

Who is the artisan for this two beautiful maki-e pen?

Namiki is keep their lip close about it. Guess we will have to wait to Nov/Dec when we receive our pieces.

In the meantime, start saving for it.

Online Desk Pen Case

Now we have another option for our desk pen case - the Online Germany desk pen case is now available locally at Fook Hing Trading. It is able to hold 10+3 pens.

Faber Castell Elemento Olive Wood

Year 2011, Graf Von Faber Castell celebrate its 250th anniversary. Beside the Pen of The Year 2011, they released The Elemento in Olive Wood as a Limited Edition to mark this event too.

The Elemento collection comprises of a propelling pencil and ball pen, roller-ball and fountain pen. We will only show the Elemento fountain pen.

There is nothing special done on the pen cap, except you will be able to find a olive wood at the end of the cap.

Cross - 2012 Year of The Dragon

The launch of the Cross Year Of The Dragon (2012) pens reminded me of the launch of sales of the Chinese Mooncake in Singapore.

The sales of Mooncake started before the end of the lunar seventh month. Some suppliers even start selling it as early as week 2 of lunar seventh month. All this in the hope to capture more market share.

We are four months away before it come to an end for the Year 2011, the Cross Year of The Dragon is already available locally at all authorized retailers. Cross is not the first to launch a Dragon pen this year.