Its pristine steel form is unadorned except for the simple Kaweco logo on the top of the cap and just below a laser engraved script Kaweco and then in plain sans serif: Supra Germany on the cap body. At the risk of threading where angels might fear to go, the pen definitely has a German cultural feel to it: it is well-thought out, beautifully engineered and finished, highly-functional: it looks good, fits together well and works perfectly. The overall impression is of a well-designed, engineered and highly functional pen that echoes the cultural and practical ethos of the Bauhaus movement that flourished in architecture, painting, design, furniture and typography for some of the interwar years, initially at Weimar (1919-1925) and then at Dessau before succumbing to suppression under the Nazis after 1933 because of its “cultural bolshevism”. The pen is made in Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) cut stainless steel with no coating or finish added. (Note: these nibs are not interchangeable with other Kaweco nibs found in their Sport range.) You can get the pen in nib versions of extra fine, fine, broad and broad-broad (or double broad, I suppose). It takes about 3 and a half full turns of the cap to reveal a Kaweco branded #6 nib that is made by Bock of Germany. The mini-pocket version (without the middle extension tube) comes in at 100 mm capped, 95 mm uncapped and 134 mm posted. The standard version of the pen capped and pocketable comes in at 130 millimetres (mm) uncapped: 125 mm, and posted at 165 mm (measured using a rule as too long for the digital calliper). Other dimensions of the pen are as follows: Item (My electronic digital calliper read the overall length assembled at 129.94 mm so operator error considered and mathematical rounding I will take it as 130 millimetres.) The pen body consists of 4 stainless steel parts that screw together to give a “standard” sized pen in its fully-assembled glory that measures approximately 130 millimetres and weighs 48 grams with an ink-filled converter. Inside the pen is a blank and a full mini international type cartridge of blue ink (more on this later). 30 by 40mm) fold-out leaflet with a company history, filling instructions and warranty details, plus a Kaweco logo sticker. Inside the box sits the pen itself, plastic sleeved, and accompanied by a little (c. The tin box is made in China, and the fountain pen in Nuremberg in the Federal Republic of Germany. The stainless-steel pen comes in a cardboard sleeve covering a beautiful retro, art deco presentation tin box with the legend: ‘license to write’. It came with a medium nib and Kaweco standard and mini international converters. The pen reviewed here was kindly loaned by the legendary Scribble Monboddo who had been given it by Kaweco. ![]() ![]() Headline: The Kaweco Supra stainless steel is a well-made, ultra-functional fountain pen (that can be adapted to a mini-pocket mode) and boasting a #6 steel nib that writes wet and fluently in medium, fine, titanium fine and double broad versions. A versatile, modern fountain pen for every-day use and life
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