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
From left to right:
TWSBI Mini AL Gold - filled with Iroshizuku ama-iro “sky blue” ink
Monteverde Monza - filled with Monteverde Charoite “purple” ink
Lamy Vista - filled with Diamond Poppy Red ink
TWSBI Eco - filled with Iroshizuku shin-ryoku “green” ink
Wing Sung 698 - filled with Iroshizuku you-yake “orange” ink
TWSBI Vac 700R - filled with Iroshizuku kon-peki “blue” ink
I decided to go with demonstrators because they write well, look great and all possess a very high fun-factor - I love seeing the ink slosh around in the pen. The other 3 pens are my Jinhao X750 & 159 both with medium nibs and filled with Noodlers black ink and a gold Pilot Metropolitan with a fine nib filled with iroshizuku kon-peki “blue” ink.