![]() The 10mm cap ring is also repeated and like the Grande Bellezza bears the company logo and the legend: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. The pen has the same patented distinctive, soft, magnetic cap closing mechanism found in all three pens. ![]() This is also echoed in the 14k quill-nib (made by Bock), dubbed hyper-flex and with the same soft tip found in the La Grande Bellezza. For example, the Pineider pen clip design features a feather, symbolic of the history of writing instruments. Thus, there is a distinct design evolution in the Arco model carrying on from other models. For the latter, Pineider developed a new material “ultra-resin” to emulate the panache and appearance of celluloid but without the fragility. Stunning and unusual materials are a key design motif of his career in pen making for example, in La Grande Bellezza and the Avatar. The opulence of the material is what you would expect of a Dante del Vecchio pen. The Pineider Arco Blue Bee looks and feels beautiful. The model reviewed here is the Arco Blue Bee. The Pineider Arco is one of the latest offerings from Pineider and comes in three flavours: Blue Bee, Oak, and Desert Beetle. He has produced a series of very beautiful and well-received fountain pen models at Pineider: the Avatar, La Grande Bellezza, Full Metal Jacket, Honeycomb Black Prince, and other limited edition models such as Trilogy and Night and Day. Dante del Vecchio certainly breaks all those assumptions. In the modern world, venerable tends to conjure images of things old and musty, passe and analogue in the digital age. Widely recognised as one of the most creative, productive and driven makers in fountain pen design and manufacturing, he joined the business in 2018. The key to this melding of traditions and modernity was Dante del Vecchio. ![]() Pineider adopted a strategy walking a fine line between its legacy craft design and of embracing modern technology and materials innovation. The reinvigoration of the brand was paralleled by a move into making pens in its own right. However, in 2017 new investment and leadership from the Rovagnati family saved the business and sparked new life and pace into the brand and its activities. However, the brand went through some torrid times under a new owner: Gucci, which did not really understand the stationery and related products market. In the late twentieth century it also designed and sold fountain pens sourcing them from American and Italian pens makers. ![]() Pineider is a venerable Florentine brand, which since 1774 has supplied popes, princes and heads of state with the finest of paper and letters for correspondence, as well as the luxury leather cases to carry such materials. Magnetic cap closure with unique soft-turn opening.This review is a meta-analysis and synthesis of the collective wisdom of the United Inkdom group.The pen is fitted with the 14k gold Hyperflex nib which is available in Extra Fine, Fine, Medium, Broad or Stub ![]() There are only 888 Arco Blue Bee fountain pens available, making this great beauty the opportunity of a lifetime. This fine writing instrument is complemented by 14 kt Quill Nib, a twist magnetic cap lock, and a piston filling mechanism. This new resin is more durable and does not face the crystallization issues of celluloid, making the Arco an amazing upgrade. After intensive research, Pineder has been able to replicate these famed hues with several layers of resin, creating a visual effect that mimics celluloid-a once popular material in pen manufacturing. The unique design of the Limited Edition Arco fountain pen is a stratification of layers of materials, creating a design with colors that were popular in the ‘30s. ![]()
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