Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece, The Most Expensive Pen Ever Created

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 9th 2007 at 11:02AM

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.

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StickItToEm Feb 18th 2007 12:35PM

The pen is what it is, a pen. To everyone who thinks its only for self indulging folks who have nothing better to spen their money on, thats true. But to the "save the starving African" people, you are way out of line. If you posted on this, you probably own the computer you used and that could be 400 to around a thousand dollars. How much good could that do? How many Africans could you save with that money? A lot! Everyone sees the commercials "save a kid in Africa for less than a dollar a day" all over TV. You want rich people to save Africans all by themselves? Do something yourself before you criticize them. You are as insignificant to starving Africans as they are.
Think about it.

nick b Feb 18th 2007 12:37PM

How do u turn it on?!

Melissa Feb 18th 2007 12:30PM

Just one word describes this " WHY ?? "

merell Feb 18th 2007 12:31PM

I'm wondering? hmm... is the ink just a cheap replacement cartridge? Or does it not have ink at all? Just for looks maybe? I have some super glue and plastic gems. I might make one LOL.

steve anthony Feb 18th 2007 12:31PM

most of you are missing the point! wealthy people aren't foolish with their money. the people that would buy this pen a) seek to sell it at a hire price down the road, like art, and b) buy it because they can. please remember, all you bleeding heart libs, most rich peoples money represents years of inovation, dedication to a dream and hard work!
btw, if they didn't buy this pen, children would still be starving---and you would still be jealous!!!

not rich in pa.
steve

Jim Feb 18th 2007 12:39PM

Isn't it strange that a company can even think about making a pen like this when millions of children go hungry every day!!!

Hal Feb 18th 2007 12:46PM

Frankly it is ugly! Give me a beauiful, elegant, beautifully writing Sheaffer any day!

jim Feb 18th 2007 12:42PM

This is really amusing. If some idiot
created a roll of toilet tissue with
a price tag of $500,000, some other
idiot would buy it. Sigh, you can't
take it with you, right?

luara sucks Feb 18th 2007 12:45PM

Hahaha, all this crap about starving children and pissing about how rich people spend their money. I would buy one of these pens just to spite all you ignorant people that talk all day long to make your selves feel better about doin nothing but living for yourselves. I am proud to live for myself and will choose how, when, and what i spend my money on as i see fit. Using guilt and accusations of living shamefully are tools of a coward and show them for being the exact person they accuse others of being.

mmora Feb 18th 2007 12:46PM

It fails my 'spilled milk' test: If I should lose it, or it were stolen, would cry over it more than if I spilled milk? I think I would whimper to my death if I lost a pen like this.

Pens, hats, and sunglasses - always keep them within the spilled milk boundary.

Now, if that pen came with a money back guarantee of a mind bending poem or great american novel, well then...

Lucia Feb 18th 2007 12:46PM

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

mmora Feb 18th 2007 12:50PM

Dios los hace, y ellos se encuentran

someone for every pen, and a pen for every somone...

Kal Feb 18th 2007 1:14PM

It will run out of ink same as my bic did, then what?
Is the refill about $100.00 ?

corky Feb 18th 2007 1:47PM

ITS ASHAME THAT SOMEBODY WITH THAT MUCH MONEY COULDN'T FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR MONEY THAN TO SPEND IT ON A PEN LIKE EDUCATE SOME OF THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD THAT DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO GO TO COLLEGE OR FEED PEOPLE THAT ARE STARVING OR HELP KIDS GET OUT OF GETTOS BUT I GUESS IT'S THEIR MONEY BUT I WONDER WHICH ONE GOD WOULD REWARD BETTER A JEWELED PEN OR HELP PEOPLE IN NEED.

Jo Lavender Feb 18th 2007 6:00PM

So someone like Elizabeth II or Donald Trump, with more money than they know what to do with, will buy this and casually lay it on a desk...meanwhile, in 3rd world countries, there are starving masses who can't read or write and have no need of a pen.
Van Cleef and Arpels should have more sense.

janet Feb 18th 2007 1:32PM

I loved the technical question posed by Jon Stevenson regarding the refill! How can we take ourselves so seriously...

mmora Feb 18th 2007 1:49PM

I'm feeling quite like Golum this morning...keep coming back, again and again to look at that damn pen...my precious...

Damn you trixies Montblanc and Van Cleef & Arpels...

(it's actually what I imagined the pen in The Shadow of the Wind to look like...I coveted that pen too).

Leroy Feb 18th 2007 1:55PM

I think that Congress should buy the President one so he can use it to sign his ZILLLLLLOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNN dollar budgets

cewoodruff Feb 18th 2007 1:59PM

Oh please. All the hype. People who can afford this and love pens can have them. And they probably do give money. Stop judging. Is it different than jewelry? Or a designer gown for thousands? Or whatever else people spend their money on? Get over it! If I could, I would!! We are still free in this society to do what we want to. Aren't we??

jerry Davis Feb 18th 2007 2:09PM

This is truly amazing. Here I'm an educator teaching students everyday, working extremely hard to educate them. Yet, I'm not even able to afford some basic things, barely making ends meet. Meanwhile, there's a pen being sold for about 15 times my salary. Something is terribly wrong!

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