It is bitter cold this morning. My weather app said it was 3 degrees and my car’s dashboard said 3 degrees when I left for the coffee shop at 7:02 am. Two hours later it says zero degrees. It’s going the wrong way. We are looking at 2-3 days of this cold. I’m home and in for the rest of the day!!! Okay, enough about the cold and on to something new.
This something new is a new Pelikan M205 Apatite Special Edition Demonstrator fountain pen. This past year Pelikan announced the Edelstein Apatite ink for 2022. Since I’ve been pleased with the seven Pelikan pens I already have, I didn’t even know this new ink or pen had come out until a week ago. After all, I can only write with one pen at a time. 😳 Needless to say, I fell in love with this color immediately. The pen is the newest in a series of eight demonstrator pens they have come out with since 2015. I only have one other demonstrator, the Smoky Quartz, which came out in 2017. All my other M200x pens are a marble swirl. Pelikan calls the Apatite color a Turquoise-Blue and is part of the M205 series which has the silver trim rather than gold. It is also a part of their gemstone inspired models that have been a popular mainstay of the company’s annual line-up. Apatite is a phosphate mineral which was first discovered in 1786 by the German geologist A.G. Werner. As a demonstrator pen you are able to see the internal piston and ink which I like. 👍 Being a special edition the price was higher than I wanted but…. So far I like the looks of the pen, the nib (medium) writes wonderfully and the ink shades well while pleasing to my eyes. So, my task now is to find all the words hidden within this pen by putting pen to paper in my journals. Enough gibberish from me. Stay warm and enjoy your day!!
8 Comments
Faye White
What a beauty! If it will also keep you warm, it’s worth every penny. 🙂
Monte Stevens
Absolutely! I like how you think! 😂 We’re back up to 3 degrees!
Tom Dills
Sounds like a good purchase. Lovely color and all the technical stuff sounds good, too!
Monte Stevens
I fell for the color immediately. And, like other pens I’ve purchased the one you get may have a slightly different color than the marketing image. This pen is a bit more green than I expected but I still like the color. The Pelikan pens are a good value for me, although this special edition was more money. I will still find words within it.
Earl
It’s a beautiful pen, Monte! So I take it the ink is Turquoise-Blue as well?
Monte Stevens
Yes. What I’ve seen is the ink is a tad bit lighter green than the pen or the pen is a tad bit darker than the ink. Doesn’t matter so much to me as I like the Pelikan pens and the writing experience they offer me. It’s words I’m actually searching for. It was -4 degrees this morning at 7:00. Bitter cold! Stay warm!
Mark
I could use a bit of Caribbean Blue ink right now. Colder there than here, but still – brrrr.
Monte Stevens
Right now the sun is shining in a blue sky but more baby blue than Caribbean. At 25 degrees it feels a bit like a heat wave. Seems much of the country is going through a cold spell. Talked with a friend who lives in Lander, Wyoming and the were -23 degrees this morning with about 3 feet of snow. Stay warm and shoot through the window.