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Visconti Homo Sapiens Fountain Pen
Homo Sapiens is a stunning new pen from Visconti. The barrel is made from basaltic lava from Mt. Etna in Sicily. This material has a matt dark grey finish; is virtually unbreakable; heatproof to over 100 degrees C; and slight hygroscopic, which means that it can absorb moisture from your hand. This last property in combination with the warm and surprisingly soft feel of the material means that this pen has a unique quality to the touch.
The cap has a quick-action bayonet fitting with a sprung pocket clip. All metal parts are high-quality polished bronze for superb wear properties.
The filling system is Visconti's High Vacuum Power Filler - from the top of the barrel unscrew the blind cap and withdraw the plunger; submerge the nib fully into the ink; press the plunger back down and count to ten; remove from the ink and screw the blind cap back down; blot the nib with tissue to remove excess ink.
The final part of the Homo Sapiens build is another unique feature - a 23ct Palladium 'Dreamtouch' bi-colour nib. Made from 95% pure palladium, Visconti claims this is superior in all respects to traditional gold nibs. More information about this nib can be found below.
The nib is available as medium, fine, extra-fine, broad and double broad. We have ALL nibs in stock for immediate despatch unless noted in the nib choice selector.
Supplied gift-boxed.
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Ref: CP15499
Our Price:
£370.50
£308.75 excl. VAT
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Homo Sapiens features a brand-new palladium nib. Here's Visconti's press release about this nib:
Visconti introduces the first ever produced DREAMTOUCH nib in 23 ct 950 Palladium .
The international classification system lists only four precious metals and their related percentages of content: platinum, palladium, gold and silver. According to these precious metals Visconti has been producing 18 ct gold nibs and 14 ct gold nibs on a regular basis and some years ago also produced a Platinum 800 nib.
The advantages and disadvantages of gold nibs are well-known, while platinum nibs have proved to be excessively stiff. Although it is a precious metal in itself, silver is not suitable to fountain pen nibs manufacturing due to the strong corrosive power of ink on silver.
Palladium however has very interesting physical features for the fountain pen nibs production due to its strength and resistance to corrosion and for these reasons, unlike gold, it can be used almost pure.
Palladium melts at much higher temperatures than gold - 1522°C against only 1063°C - hence it is obvious that any manufacturing process is more difficult and more expensive by using palladium. Being more resistant than gold it has also better mechanical features, but it is at the same time more expensive. Nowadays manufacturing palladium nibs is possible thanks to new metal fusion technologies and to the welding of iridium points.
Dreamtouch is the term Visconti registered to define a soft nib that requires no pressure whatsoever in order to put thoughts and words on paper in a gentle and smooth way for a dream handwriting.
Main features:
Value: the 23 ct 950/1000 palladium nib is the nib with the highest content of palladium ever manufactured in the fountain pen history. In other words, it contains 95% of pure palladium against the 75% of pure gold in the 18 ct nib and the 58% of gold in the 14 ct nib.
Flexibility and Memory: best possible for any type of writing, enhanced of 30% compared to the same nib in 18 ct gold.
Writing comfort and reliability are guaranteed.
Resistance to ink corrosion: improved up to 100% thanks to the pureness of the material to an extent to which no protection treatment or plating is needed.
Originality: the palladium nib will make your Visconti even more exclusive, either as a collection piece or as a daily use instrument. |
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