I'm not sure how you would write with it, but the Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece, a joint creation between Montblanc and Van Cleef & Arpels, is one amazing pen. Both companies celebrated their centennials in 2006 and the pen is meant to showcase each company's area of expertise. There are three variations, set either with rubies, sapphires or emeralds, and accented by diamonds. There are three versions of each pen for a total of nine. Each pen has 840 diamonds and more than 20 carats of gemstones set in a Van Cleef & Arpels patented "Mystery Setting" that conceals the stone settings. A groove is made on the culet, the bottom facet of the stone, which is then slid onto the threads of the lattice design so that the stones can be held in place side by side without any visible support. The Mystery sells for $730,000, making it the most expensive writing instrument ever created. Truly a masterpiece of the jeweler's art, I just wish I could wear it around my neck.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
2-09-2007 @ 2:07PM
Dianne said...
A thing of beauty.
Reply
2-09-2007 @ 2:55PM
Mike said...
As big a pen-whore that I am, I think this is the high point of tacky. Do these rich folk not have anything better than this to spend money on?
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 6:43AM
Lisa said...
I have sincere reservations about letting someone borrow my RSVP pens.....I'd never take one of these out of my house! Under what circumstances would it be appropriate to use a pen as expensive as this? This thing costs about 10 times as much as my husband and I bought our house for!
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 7:21AM
Gregk6040 said...
It's Ugle
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 8:21AM
writerman said...
yeah, but are the poems it writes any better than the ones I write with my $1.99 Uniball?
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 8:30AM
Eddie Lucas said...
I agree completely with Mike. In a world where children are dying of starvation every day, where wars are raging, this is the high point of selfish indulgence.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 8:39AM
Donald said...
Im very dissapointed there were only nine made...
I wanted to purchase at least ten...
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 8:47AM
MICHAEL JOHNSON said...
NO DOUBT, BRITNEY AND PARIS WILL PONY UP FOR ONE EACH..YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT "STUPID MONEY"
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 8:50AM
kevin said...
a pen is a pen as long as it can write. i will never buy a pen that cost so much. buti will gladly take it as a gift.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 9:13AM
Pete King said...
I'm pensive about it.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 9:14AM
gretchen norby said...
I hope I find one of these someday at a garage sale or estate sale and can sell it on ebay.
I am kidding but you never know.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 9:55AM
Daniel said...
I would love one of those. Though, I'd surely tire of it. then what?
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:03AM
Daniel said...
sweet for just a little under 7 million i can own the entire set
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:07AM
Dmeje said...
Extravagance at it's best.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:09AM
babette said...
The ultimate in self-indulgence. I'm sure there will be people who would buy something like this, but when I think that what it cost could probably feed a Third World Nation for a month, it makes me sick. Of course, anyone who would buy it probably never thinks about starving people anyway.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:29AM
andy said...
I wonder if you can fill a scholarship or write an essay to win this pen, lol.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:32AM
John T said...
Its sad. My writing would look equally horrid with the Mystery pen as with my Bic Banana. One cannot buy penmanship.
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:34AM
kckia7 said...
You couldnt take it out in public and use it someone would steal it in a heartbeat what use is it then just a waste of money again... for silly things the rich can do if they want to spend there money what about spending it on something of real importance like the hungry children in this world ...kckia
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:36AM
Jon Stevenson said...
When it runs out of ink, do you need to throw it out and buy a new one?
Reply
2-18-2007 @ 10:39AM
ron said...
ha ha - wonders if it writes in platinum as well -
someone will leave the thing in the house on a table - a unsuspecting child will say wow nice and pick it up and take it to school unknowing its a ritzy flashy extravagant token of mere elegance - mom will say oh no how did I ever misplace my 700,000 pen - and crash about the place tearing up everything in sight to find it - only to find out when the child comes home he gave it to the teacher cause she said it was so beautiful - ha ha
$700,000 pen - pathetic -
give one to the president - maybe then he can make a few wise decisions before he signs something stupid ...
The Bandit !
Reply