… before you commit to buy one for yourself or as a gift for a person you care.

Yes, it’s a leader of the pen market. And it puts a special accent on everything that the company makes for its customers. Read the following and decide if you want to know more about Mont Blanc pens.

1. Mont Blanc pens do not send out spare parts for repair, so you will lose your time requesting such. This is done to ensure the best quality of craftsmanship, assembly and repair possible. If you are not skilled enough, you can damage a pen even when using original authentic spare part. The company does not want this to happen with your pen.

2. The company started over a century ago, in 1906. When you buy an authentic Montblanc writing instrument, be sure it’s backed up with long history few other pen makers can show off.

3. Mont Blanc is a German company. Its pens are manufactured in Germany, and only there. Montblanc’s products are thoroughly representative of German pens: conservative in style, heavily built, and expensive.

4. In 1992 Montblanc made expansion onto things other than luxurious pens. It started manufacturing accessories like leather cases, satchels, sun glasses, watches, wallets, etc.

5. Montblanc pens are tested by hand in absolute silence; their craftsmen listen for the “melody” of the pen’s nib on paper.

6. There are just two (yes, 2) lines of pens Mont Blanc produces; Meisterstuck (started in 1924) and Boheme (since 1990′s). All of Montblancs are either models of these, or limited editions.

7. Each Mont Blanc pen now carries figures ’4810′ on the nib. It’s the height of the mountain namesake in meters.

8. Mont Blanc writing instruments are identified by the white, six-pointed start on top of their pens.

9. In 1999, the company celebrated 75th Anniversary. Just 7 years later, it announced 100 Anniversary editions. It was so because different anniversaries were celebrated. The one in 1999 was in memory of Meisterstuck, the model that made Mont Blanc so famous over the world. The 100th Anniversary was celebrated as the date when three Germans united to found the ‘Simplo-Filler Pens Company’, which gave birth to Montblanc brand. Thus, the market faced Mont Blanc Mozart 75th special anniversary edition, and Mont Blanc Mozart 75 anniversary ball point pen. If you are interested in buying a Mont Blanc pen set of these 75th anniversary Mozart Edition pens, then you should know that this is one of the most searched for mont blanc pen gift sets found online.

10. The first pens produced by ‘Simplo Pens Company’ were named ‘Rouge et Noir’.

11. Mont Blanc Meisterstuck series pens were manufactured for each market individually. That is, Spanish Meisterstuck was called differently from Mexican. For English market, Meisterstuck was named Masterpiece (which is logical, isn’t; it?).

12. Some Montblanc pens were made with octagonal-formed bodies to prevent rolling off the table.

13. Mikhail S. Gorbachev used a Montblanc to sign his resignation; ironically, this pen can be considered as the instrument that was used to sign the treaty between republics of ruined USSR.

14. In “Never Say Never Again”, James Bond used Mont Blanc 149 (an old style) with a Union Jack flag on the barrel.