Top 10 Most Expensive Pens In The World

January 7, 2011

If you love expensive pens, Expensive brands and information related to them, then here is the list of Top 10 World’s Most Expensive Pens with price and Brand name

Top 10 Most Expensive Pens In The World

10. Conway Stewart Westminster Teal Pen

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Priced at $1,800, British pen company Conway Stewart has released the latest version of this popular pen this time in teal enamel. The pen takes its design cues from the palace of Westminster with its Gothic style engraving on the cap and barrel. The small diamond-shaped recesses mimic the detail on the palace and the tiny oak leaves are a symbol of England. The pen is available in an edition of 100 fountain pen or rollerball writing modes.

9. Graf von Faber-Castel Pens

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The core feature of the Graf von Faber-Castell Custom Pens is wood in different variations. In Pen of the Year 2008, the outer layer of the barrel is made of Indian satinwood. No fewer than 84 Satinwood rectangles are hand-cut for the filigree herringbone pattern. The pen is crowned by a chessboard-facted citrine gemstone, platinised fittings and an 18-carat bicolour gold nib, carefully run in by hand. It comes in a wooden case with a brochure and a certificate for the pen collector. It’s priced at $2,000.

8. Fifth Avenue rollerball and fountain pens

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Each of the 1,929 luxurious New York Fifth Avenue rollerball and fountain pens hand-made by S T Dupont required about 160 hours of supervision. Result was taupe- and brunette-coloured lacquer fountain pens worth $2,400. These pens are embellished with a gold and silver relief overlay, which features a central globe design.

7. La Dona Menagerie Fountain Pen

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Handcrafted by Cartier, these pens belong to the most exquisite designer range of writing instruments priced at about $4,000. Cartier La Dona Menagerie is named after the 1940′s, cine star Maria Felix, who was also known as ‘La Do�a- the Mexican Marilyn Monroe. It was on her request, the luxury jewellery designer Cartier customised a crocodile necklace in gold. This necklace inspired Cartier to design and develop 888 individually numbered fine pieces of La Dona pens, the second offering in the Menagerie Collection. Made of expensive materials, such as gold, Cartier pen has a gold-plated nib, which is carved with a crocodile head.

6. David Oscarson Pens

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Of these lot, the Pierrot White Fountain Pen is the most expensive costing about $4,900. Through Pierrot White Fountain Pen, David Oscarson has introduced a unique collection representing the old world craftsmanship in an attractive range of designer pens. In fact, David Oscarson is the first pen making company to integrate five colours of hard enamel and three levels of guilloche on each fountain pen, which is finished in rhodium vermeil with natural backgrounds.

5. OMAS Limited Edition Pens

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These pens are sold for $16,500. The Corinthian style votive monument erected by Lysicrates is recreated on the cap and the Laocoon sculpture dominates the barrel. The clip of the pen is one of the columns of the votive monument. The cap has a pure diamond set on the end of it.

4. Grayson Tighe Limited Edition fountain and rollerball pens

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These pens are sold for a price of $22,000 to $24,000. They are 18K gold Victorian royalty executive custom made collectors pens.The nib of Grayson Tighe fountain pens is custom hand-made in Germany with 18K yellow gold. It’s engraved with a specially designed Acanthus leaf, tipped with iridium, and two toned with rhodium. Grayson Tighe rollerball pens have an advanced refill that has a 1 Year cap-off time.

3. Ripple HRH Limited Edition Visconti fountain pen

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Made of 18K white gold and diamonds and with two-tone 18K gold nib, it costs $57,000. It has double reservoir filling system and is sold in two variations — white gold and black. Another distinguished Visconti pen is the Forbidden City HRH Limited Edition fountain pen. Made of black resin, 18K gold and diamonds and boasting of Power Filler innovative filling system invented by Visconti, it is sold for $42,200.

2. La Modernista Diamond Pens

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It was made by the Swiss company Caran d’Ache in 1999 as homage to architect Antonio Gaudi.
The fountain pen was sold in Harrods, London, for $265,000.
La Modernista Diamonds is made of rhodium-coated solid silver components.
It boasts of an 18-carat rhodium-coated gold nib and is set with a total of 5,072 Wesselton diamonds weighing in at 20-carats, as well as and 96 rubies totalling 32-carats.
The pen was hand-made by master jeweler Robert Perron and it took him six months to complete this true masterpiece of writing instruments.

1. The Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece

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A joint creation between Mont blanc and Van Cleef & Arpels, this is the most expensive writing pen ever created. It costs $730,000!

Each pen has 840 diamonds and more than 20 carats of gemstones set in a Van Cleef & Arpels patented ‘Mystery Setting’ that conceals the stone settings. There are three variations of the pen, set either with rubies, sapphires or emeralds, and accented by diamonds. Artisans took over 18 months to create this pen.

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Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1 Home Theater Price In India & Review

January 6, 2011

Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1 Home Theater is a latest buzz in India Home theater market .

Main Features :

  • 5.1 AV receiver, 55 watts per channel
  • Three HDMI 1.4 inputs (with audio return channel and pass-through)
  • 1 HDMI 1.4 output which is 3D-compatible (able to pass 3D HDMI signal from 3D Blu-ray player to 3D TV)
  • Onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio
  • Includes Onkyo U-Port for connection of proprietary iPod docks and HD Radio tuners

Onkyo Ht-s3300 price in India
Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1 Channel  Home Theater  Review

If you’re looking for a high-performance AV receiver and good 5.1 speaker package for less than INR 25,000 then Onkyo Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1 Home Theater is the best home heater for your budget . Onkyo hts-3300 is entry level home theater but it has almost all latest features making it future proof .

Pros :

  • Sound Quality is Excelletn
  • 3 HDMi 1.4 inputs , so that we can connect bluray player , gaming console  and HD  Dish at a time
  • 3D-compatible
  • Value for Money
  • looks Good with black shinny finish
  • color coded connectors which makes east to connect

Cons :

  • Woofer is weak , if you have big room like more than 14×14 woofer sounds looks weak
  • It is mainly for Movies ,  if you want to mainly use it for listening music like 90% times music , you need to find other HTS

Onkyo HT-S3300  Price In India : INR 23,000 ( showroom guys will say 25,000 ) .  It is available in almost all cities in India , after bargaining if you can get it for 23,000 and some showrooms giving HDMI cable free ( hdmi cable is not company offer , you need to bargain with showroom for HDMI 1.4 cable )