There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
My current crop of inexpensive fountain pens are as follows: Pilot Metropolatain Collection w/fine nib Wing Sung 698 Piston Demonstrator w/fine nib Picasso 903 Sweden Flower King w/fine nib Jinhao X750 w/medium nib Jinhao 159 w/medium nib Rosso Bianco (Jinhao copy) w/ medium nib
My inks: Pilot Iroshizuku yu-yake (burnt orange) Pilot Iroshizuku kon-peki (turquoise / deep blue) Noodlers water/ bulletproof Black ink