A classic Rotring 600 Newton set of fountain pen, ballpoint pen and pencil in matt chrome finish complete in the case.
The pens are made of brass finished in matt silver with the Rotring trademark red circle on the barrels. Pens and pencil and the case are in excellent condition.
The fountain pen has a medium nib, a smooth firm writer. It comes with a Rotring converter and also takes the industry-standard ink cartridges such as Diamine. It is for this reason that this set has been my favorite pen set to take travelling since I bought it from the late Ian Williamson 10 years ago. It dates from the 1990s I believe. The fountain pen has been discontinued and these pens are now relatively expensive to buy new and used.

The ballpoint pen takes widely available Rotring cartridges and has a working cartridge fitted. Rotring pencils are marked with the lead size; this one is marked on the cap for 0.5mm leads. It has an unused eraser. The leads are also widely available.

Rotring is most famous for its technical drawing instruments, starting with a Stylograph pen allowing rapid drawing with well-controlled ink feed. In the Second World War the factories in Hamburg were bombed but the company was saved – ironically – by an order from the RAF for 1000 Stylograph pens a month, a tribute to their reputation. In the 1950s the company developed a successor to the Stylograph, a ballpoint piston filler for technical drawing using ink. This pen was identified by a red ring on the end of the barrel and following its success the company was renamed Rotring in 1968. Following the takeover of Graphos from Pelikan in 1970 Rotring diversified into a wider range of pens for both technical drawing and art and calligraphy. The 600 series was launch in 1989 as a higher end offering made in brass with matt chrome and black finishes, which continue to this day.




Price: £169 ($225 €210 ) ….. plus postage
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