Aurora 88 Sigaro Blu Limited-Edition Fountain Pen

Name: Aurora 88 Sigaro Blu Limited-Edition Fountain Pen
Brand: Aurora
SKU: aurora-88-sigaro-blu-limited-edition-fountain-pen
Price: 554.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

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A variation on the original 88 Sigaro, Aurora’s Sigaru Blu uses the same lacquering techniques—this time with vibrant blue streaks against a black background. It’s handcrafted from Aurolaide: a proprietary celluloid-acetate derivative that boasts a great depth of color and a slightly warm feel in the hand Read More

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Nov 27, 2018

To me, life would be somewhat colorless if there weren’t examples of exquisite craftsmanship, even if their acquisition requires large expenditures of legal tender.

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Nov 26, 2018

Frankly, I would rather live in a world where $600 fountain pens exist than one where they don’t—despite Ray’s edicts and decrees—and even if I can’t afford them. He would prefer cheap Chinese pens to be the norm.

charlizeworshipper

Nov 25, 2018

Again, Massdrop tempted me – third time this week! – into almost ordering this pen… from LCdC which is offering this pen, with either an EF or a F nib, for less than US$488 shipped to Australia as a Black Friday special. If this pen (i) didn't have a smooth metal section, and (ii) wasn't a piston-filler – which to me does not inherently make a pen ‘high-end’, more valuable or otherwise inherently better – I would have been sold. I guess I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled to see if Massdrop will offer high-end Platinum and Sailor pens next more cheaply than I can order from proper Japanese retailers/dealers and shipped to Australia, since as far it doesn't look like I'll get the best offers in the market on European pens from Massdrop.

charlizeworshipper

Feb 28, 2019

charlizeworshipperI did end up buying one of these from Endless Pens in the US for US$426.25 (plus shipping) at the end of December. The glossy metal section, in actual use, bothered me less than I thought it would because I find myself holding onto the threaded part more often than not (with my normal pen grip), and the threads aren't sharp so it didn't pose a problem either. In spite of the pen's heft, it is very comfortable with which to write. Also, from product photos I thought the original Aurora 88 Sigaro in brown with gold trim looked better (and more like an actual cigar), but on the weekend I had the opportunity to see both the Sigaro and the Sigaro Blu 'in the flesh' side by side, and find myself actually preferring the Blu. As well, this is helping not want to also buy the new Aurora 888 Nettuno, which looks somewhat similar. I recently bought the Pelikan M815 Metal-Striped for US$425 as well from Endless Pens, and personally I think the Aurora Sigaro Blu pleases me far more in every way as a writing instrument and an object of beauty, especially for essentially the same price.

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Pierce_Everett_Nostrand

Nov 24, 2018

Stunning and beautiful. Too bad I can't afford it : (

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charlizeworshipper

Nov 27, 2018

I went to primary school with a boy who was chauffeured to and from school in a Rolls-Royce every day. Among the fleet of cars his family kept on the estate, there were three Daimlers of their favourite model in different colours to, um, ‘accessorise’? Now that was cool, even if it isn't something I personally aspire to. I do like vintage Daimlers, though.

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