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So I have been getting some better pieces in the store lately and thought I would write a pen review when I have some time. I have not been in the shop since I came back from LA. I got a little burned out turning for the last couple of shows and needed a break and have been playing catch up on other things like book work. So this is for those of you who do not subscribe to pen magazines and fountain pen forums, but want to see some unussual pieces now and then and also for the pen junkies. 
Visconti Alchemy-
So like any great pen design, there has to be a good story to go with it. Well this is about good and evil, light and darkness and all the other mumbo jumbo about the pen that makes for a really neat bed time story. You can read all about it in the book that comes with it
Now the pen, It is a limited edition
1088 pieces in silver & vermeil List price $4,250.00
38 pieces in white/yellow gold with diamonds List 47,500 (sold out)
This is a massive desk pen, make sure you have a sturdy desk to place it. The pen is large as well.
This is a dual nib pen, can be ordered with a fine on one end & medium on the other or medium & broad. The pen is suspended by magnets and it is fun to spin it, but only the onwer is allowed to do this The pen fills by an eye dropper and when the top of the ink well is unscrewed, it reviels two small ink wells. I have not ink the pen, but is very comfortable to hold and does not feel akward or unbalanced. I have not seen a desk pen as impressive as this ! The only down side I see to this pen, is you would want to display it proudly on your desk, but would have to kill the person who comes in and grabs your pen without asking
Massive in size and weight
Dual nibs in different sizes
Turning the ring, will reviel a hole with an O ring. Use an eye dropper to fill then rotate the ring closed.
I hope you enjoyed this little pen review. Here is some more of the mumbo jumbo if you want to keep on reading
Homage to C.G. Jung
Alchemy - a pen divided in two: two are the nibs, where symbolically the dualistic thought still lives, before the necessary transformation; which will make Jung say - as already anticipated by Alchemy - that we cannot speak of Good without Evil, of Light without Darkness, and of Above without Below.
Alchemy is one of the forgotten finds that Jung has brought to light from the darkness of our past.
From the Emerald Table
(VI-VII century)
That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.
And all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one; so alll things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse.
Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
It ascends from the earth to the heaven and again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
Visconti has gathered in the Alchemy pen the most significant symbols of the Alchemic Opus:
Ouroboros: the figure of a snake eating its own tail. With this imaginary symbol the pagan world wanted to represent the perpetual movement of the world: the unity of everything (the circle), which is distributed in the multiplicity of its cyclic transformations (the coils of the snake symbolize the lunar phases), returns in itself (the junction of the tail of the snake with its head), thus reconciling the apparent contradiction between and the unity and the multiplicity.
Red colour: Rubedo, or the final phase of the alchemic process or great work, consisting of the philosophers' stone.
Cosmic diagrams: from the Sylva Philosophorum. They represent the macrocosm and the philosophers' stone with their relationships.
Androgynous: gold and silver. The philosophers attribute the female character (the Moon) to the humid and cold matter, and the male character to the hot and dry matter (the Sun)
Alembic: the inkwell. It represents the laboratory of alchemy and the necessary work to complete the Opus.
Its large two-tone nibs are 18 kt gold, available as F/M or M/B.
Filling system: eye dropper.
Now if you really read all the mumbo jumbo, can I sell you a pen
Visconti Alchemy-
So like any great pen design, there has to be a good story to go with it. Well this is about good and evil, light and darkness and all the other mumbo jumbo about the pen that makes for a really neat bed time story. You can read all about it in the book that comes with it
Now the pen, It is a limited edition
1088 pieces in silver & vermeil List price $4,250.00
38 pieces in white/yellow gold with diamonds List 47,500 (sold out)
This is a massive desk pen, make sure you have a sturdy desk to place it. The pen is large as well.
This is a dual nib pen, can be ordered with a fine on one end & medium on the other or medium & broad. The pen is suspended by magnets and it is fun to spin it, but only the onwer is allowed to do this
The pen fills by an eye dropper and when the top of the ink well is unscrewed, it reviels two small ink wells. I have not ink the pen, but is very comfortable to hold and does not feel akward or unbalanced. I have not seen a desk pen as impressive as this ! The only down side I see to this pen, is you would want to display it proudly on your desk, but would have to kill the person who comes in and grabs your pen without asking Massive in size and weight
Dual nibs in different sizes
Turning the ring, will reviel a hole with an O ring. Use an eye dropper to fill then rotate the ring closed.
I hope you enjoyed this little pen review. Here is some more of the mumbo jumbo if you want to keep on reading
Homage to C.G. Jung
Alchemy - a pen divided in two: two are the nibs, where symbolically the dualistic thought still lives, before the necessary transformation; which will make Jung say - as already anticipated by Alchemy - that we cannot speak of Good without Evil, of Light without Darkness, and of Above without Below.
Alchemy is one of the forgotten finds that Jung has brought to light from the darkness of our past.
From the Emerald Table
(VI-VII century)
That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.
And all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one; so alll things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse.
Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
It ascends from the earth to the heaven and again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
Visconti has gathered in the Alchemy pen the most significant symbols of the Alchemic Opus:
Ouroboros: the figure of a snake eating its own tail. With this imaginary symbol the pagan world wanted to represent the perpetual movement of the world: the unity of everything (the circle), which is distributed in the multiplicity of its cyclic transformations (the coils of the snake symbolize the lunar phases), returns in itself (the junction of the tail of the snake with its head), thus reconciling the apparent contradiction between and the unity and the multiplicity.
Red colour: Rubedo, or the final phase of the alchemic process or great work, consisting of the philosophers' stone.
Cosmic diagrams: from the Sylva Philosophorum. They represent the macrocosm and the philosophers' stone with their relationships.
Androgynous: gold and silver. The philosophers attribute the female character (the Moon) to the humid and cold matter, and the male character to the hot and dry matter (the Sun)
Alembic: the inkwell. It represents the laboratory of alchemy and the necessary work to complete the Opus.
Its large two-tone nibs are 18 kt gold, available as F/M or M/B.
Filling system: eye dropper.
Now if you really read all the mumbo jumbo, can I sell you a pen
