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Most people cannot do this on their own. We look forward to absolutely best quality when we buy pens from these brand. They shd be perfect out of the box. So my comparison makes a lot of sense for most people who buy these pens. They shd never feel the need to get them tuned and the quality shd be top notch out of the box

@@Soon2berich I respectfully disagree with you. Anyone that has the dexterity to write as well as most do can look through a loupe and figure this out. I did, and so can everyone else. I agree that all nibs should be perfect, but we should also have universal health care in this country and well, world peace. We can stamp our feet about these things but it won't change them today. The reality of manufacturing means that most nibs are substandard, especially at the lower end of the spectrum. People should stop expecting this and learn a few techniques that are as simple as learning how to properly clean a pen.

@@lennyeiger4097 playing with nibs is not everyone can think of doing with such costly pens. Brand need to provide an almost perfect quality like Rolls Royce and Rolex. I love collecting and writing with these pens. I spend arnd 30% of my usable income on them. I can tell you that I cannot gather enough courage to play with any of these nibs. If I were earning 10x, I would have played with the nibs all day long.

@@Soon2berich Everything is hard when you don't know how. The tines need to be aligned vertically, and this only needs a good loupe and the use of ones fingers. It is a very small adjustment and one uses one's fingers. It's easy, and you can be very gentle. The lapping sheets come is 16,000 grit and it is almost impossible to hurt a nib, the finer one is 60,000 grit. Using that, you can't hurt a nib. I also have very expensive pens. Every one of them writes smooth. I like things very smooth, most people like a little feedback, they can't please everyone, so they leave a little more than I like. Takes me about 3 minutes to get it right with a good nib....

All Waterman pens are extremely smooth. I have had 4 of them over past 20 years and they were all AWESOME

@jim5199 i have mentioned in my video that this ranking is amongst my collection. May be you missed it. Feel free to watch the video again, but this time please pay more attention. Also, when you are paying so much for a pen, you expect it to be the absolute best. You dont pay for the two items of the same model and brand to write differently.

I have very limited number of watches. Hoping to add more to the collection before moving on to watches. I recently moved to our own home with my wife. So most of my savings went into it.

You can buy it from Appelboom pens, they ship world over. Please check for the taxes as they change by country. In US, you can also check Goulet pens. In India, you'll get the best deal at Makoba.

Thank you! 💕

Coming soon

I actually had it checked. No issues with the nib. I dnt find Montblanc nibs to be as good as others. I have 4 of them and I have issues with 3.

Thank you so much!!! 😊

Oh gosh! Thats a horrible experience. Fortunately, my visconti is working well till now but this makes me worried. I hope the company replaces it with an upgraded model. I agree... The smoothest is Pilot. Nothing comes close to it. But for my comfort, I find it a bit too smooth.

Sorry, what?

Pelikan M1000 18k Medium writes like a broad and the nib is extremely bouncy. Where as Pelikan M800 18k Medium is sleek like MB or Pilot Medium and its quite a hard nib. Sailor KOP 21K is soft and not just bouncy. The nib gets deshaped quite too often even with minimal pressure. I find KOP and Pilot Custom Urushi medium nibs to be almost as wide as MB and Pelikan mediums. The difference is negligible.

@@Soon2berich I was wondering about a 21k nib keeping its shape! I once got a gift of 21k broach - it was torture I kept having to get it restored to the proper shape! Thanks especially for the data on the M800. huge help!

@@agabrielhegartygaby9203 happy to be of assistance. 21k jewelry is also too soft to handle. So for writing, while it feels soft and bouncy... It is however a problem as the nib doesnt hold shape. For M800, its my best pen ever! Hope you are njoying your M800 as much as I am enjoying mine.

Yes, you are right. I face this issue with my Sailor KOP. However, I havent faced this issue with Pilot Custom Urushi

Great. I have never tried the gold nib range from Parker. Are the nibs soft or stiff?

@@Soon2berich it is soft...but I do get a scratchy sense at times in the flow... probably because it is old and my tinkering with the nib has caused it....

@@ashokviswanathan920 whats the nib size?

@@Soon2berich medium

@@ashokviswanathan920 i am amazed that the pen from 1995 still works really well. I hope to keep my pens safe and working for so long.

Thank you. I will soon be coming up with videos on a new topic. Just abt to complete our home interiors and bought everything needed in a household. Made so many mistakes which I shall be sharing so that everyone gets to know what to take care while buying household products.

Just 5 to 8 percent

Just 5 to 8 percent

Thank you

Its a 0.9 mm and soon it will touch the hands of 4th generation in our family.

Sorry, I dint understand

I would surely prefer to stay away from any sellers on Amazon due to authenticity issues. I can suggest that you take a slightly coarse paper and write 8 on it about 100 times keeping the nib in different orientations. That should help out a bit.

Also check for the alignment of tines. I faced this issue in Pelikan M1000. after aligning the tines, it worked like a wonder.

Finally EFs of all Japanese brands are extremely thin, thus, always a bit coarse. I have a Sailor EF and I hardly write with it

@@Soon2berich thanks for the feedback 😀

Hopefully soon. For now my eyes are set on Namiki Emperor

Hopefully soon. For now my eyes are set on Namiki Emperor

Yes, I agree it does. But what also matters is the consistency of a brand. For Pelikan, Sailor and MB, I have multiple pens and I have tried many more at stores. I have always found Pelikan and Sailor to be consistent, whereas MB is not that consistent with the nib quality. For Pilot, I have tried just 3 or 4 pens and again all of them have been good. This comparison however is for the ones I own while hoping that if people buy on basis of this comparison, they will also get the same quality as I have.

What abt Namiki, Pelikan or Visconti?

@@Soon2berich Entry-level Namiki pens use the same nibs as Pilot pens, so I noticed no significant difference. I heard that more expensive Namiki pens have better quality control and attention to feedback. I tried the Pelikan M400, which is good but not my favourite. Can't say what exactly I don't like. I have not yet had a chance to try Visconti. Hope someday I'll be able to buy Homo Sapiens. I heard a lot of great feedback about it.

@@pengovan I have heard Namiki nibs are even better than Pilot. Specially Emperor nibs. For Pelikan, I find M800 to be the best in overall writing experience for daily usage. Visconti...I am a fan of my EF Homo Sapiens

Thank you! No, I havent. I only have Medium nib. Based on how M nib is, I am sure Fine will also be super smooth.

Start and skip are extremely important parts of the experience. Montblancs hardly have any hard starts even after you use them after months. But however Montblancs have skipping problem. I faced it in both 149 and starwalker. But not in hertitage and writer's editions.

Yes, this video is based on my collection and preferences. But my experience with Mont Blanc has been a mixed one. 149 and starwalker were not good at all whereas heritage and writer edition are amazing. My experience with Pelikan and Visconti has been amazing. Sailor has again been a mixed one. There are so many more pens I want to try, buy and review. And I would love your opinion on other brands and pens as well so as to narrow my choices for my next purchase.

Thank you so much! Yup, proud Indian. I am a punjabi based in Haryana. I havent tried SD Dupont bt a lot of people have commented great things abt their pens. I want to try them. Do you have any of them? I would love to hear your reviews. For Caran D'ache, I find them to be pretty expensive for me as of now. For my collection, I want to focus on pens that can also work as investments.

@@Soon2berich very nice to know about you. Yes I have 3 Line Ds, one is a LE, one a Special edituon and one is their flagship ones.outstanding writers they are. Pls do try a Leman ag a pen show or boutique..even I was hesitang but they are mind blowing..my EDC now.

Absolutely. I'll check those out.

Yes of course. I am planning to buy Namiki Emperor and then another MB Limited Edition. But I can only afford to buy 1 pen every 3 months. The wait seems never ending.

Yup. This has a 14k nib. Small in size so feels very firm.

@@Soon2berich one of my two favorite MBs

It is an awesome pen. Do you face the issue where the ink darkens in this pen?

Most of these pens have medium sized nibs except for Visconti and I usually write with very little to medium pressure. Smoothness is not so much dependent on the pressure as on nib size and craftsmanship. I prefer to use Visconti most often due to line height in my notebook. As Visconti HomoSapiens is EF, its easier to write in the tighter lines. For larger notebooks, I prefer M800. I also love to write with MB Rouge ET Noir but as it is made of sterling silver, it darkens the ink color. I used to write a lot with Sailor KOP but even with light pressure, its tines used to tilt after a few pages. So now I dont write with it much.

@@Soon2berich I do have similarities to your collection that being the custom urushi, montblanc heritage, M800, Sailor KOP, different color scheme and all, my nib for CU is an FM, so it's less wetter than a Medium, but it's one of my favorite pen in my collection. where I don't really see an equal to its writing style as compared to any of the size 8/9 nibs out there. I believe pilot has created a nib that is like a grand sekio but not the highest end GS but top of range sekio but it's still a GS in any sense. (This is just my analogy) pilot has now deployed this size 30nib to their namiki Aya range of pen. Cheers:)

​@@Govinkunawow... Tell me more abt your collection. How are the other pens? You are right abt CU....it is the most premium pilot bt still something feels lacking. I want to buy a Namiki emperor soon. How your M800? Does it have a chalk like feeling? I dnt know why I feel that the ink from my M800 dries very fast. Its pretty wet bt dries fast too. Doesnt make sense....bt thats how it is. Hows the MB Heritage? Do you also see the ink turn a bit blackish or darkish in it?

@@Soon2berich I have these as well apart from those I've mentioned earlier, MB Egyptomania in fine, Namiki Yukari Royale in medium, Delta DB ver2.0 in fine, another LE delta in medium, two pilot 823 in fine and medium, pilot 845 in fine, pilot 743 in stub, Platinum izumo in Board, Waterman carene in fine, and other brands that are more of my play around pens.

@@Soon2berich Namiki emperor I would highly recommend you get to try it out first as it's a size 50 nib which I would say isn't for everyone frankly, the distance from paper to you holding the pen is a different feel on its own.. Takes time to adjust.. If you just want to have it in ur collection, Noone Is stopping you as well.

Thank you so much☺️

@@Soon2berich what pen(s) are next on your list to acquire?

​@@Ali4451_ I am planning to buy Namiki Emperor and another Visconti Homo Sapiens. And after that only MB limited editions. After these initial ones, I now want to use the collection as an investment. So MB limited Edition seem to be the best choices.

@@Soon2berich very interesting. Thanks. The Emperor is a fascinating one. I enjoy your videos. They are more analytical than most and your framework for evaluating pens is a good one. Keep up the good work.

@@Ali4451_ thank you so much. You just made my day.

Strange. I can understand every word, despite an accent.

@spruceguitar Well, strange that you cant understand what I am speaking. May b English is not your native language. I interact with Americans all day and none of them have had difficulty understanding me.

Thank you so much for the kind comment. I do have a mix of US, UK and Indian English but more or less it's my native language as I have been interacting with global clients everyday for past 8 years. I actually have a much poor vocabulary in Hindi which is my native language.

It was not meant as an insult. It is my native language, I am Canadian. -Glad to hear that people can understand you as well as you say they do. -But I do not hear the tinge of UK accent, I must say. And I am very used to the British accent.

@@spruceguitar in India we are taught British English and we develop an Indian accent too. I have also lived in South India, so I have a hint to their accent too. Along with that I talk to Americans all day so its a mix of everything.

Heard a lot about this pen. Will check out some reviews and then plan to buy.

Thanks for the suggestions I'll look these up and try them. I too have observed that limited editions of Montblanc are better writers than normal ones.

Something that is awesome abt Montblanc is that even if you use the pens after weeks, there are no hard starts. Same is not true for Sailor, Pilot or Pelikan.

Thank you so much. I think fountain pens make handwriting better. I cant read my own handwriting when I write with a ball point.

Yes. Its just a factor in the overall experience. Thats why in my short reviews I compare a few more factors such as wetness, softness, grip size, feedback and more. In lengthy reviews I also consider the weight of the pen, how well the pen can be gripped and more

I also like my Sailor KOP a lot and its way better than MB149. But I find MB Brothers Grimm to be slightly better than Sailor KOP. One of the major reasons for that will be that the nib feels quite sturdy compared to KOP nib which is very soft and bends over time. I had to straighten it a few times already.

Thank you!

Oh yeah! And I am in love with it. It is such an amazing nib.

My M1000 oozes ink. Otherwise its a wonderful pen. Thanks, I look forward to add a few more brands to make the comparisons even better.

I agree but I had already filled up different inks. Also, I find that wetter pens work better with dry inks such as Pelikan 4001 and drier pens or EF nibs work well with Pilot Iroshizuki. I will also try Edelstein soon.

Sure. I'll plan to buy it. I hope I will also become a fan of it.

I guess it might be an issue with the one I got. Everyone is praising this product.

Well functionality wise, it cant cut my toe nails because of the small size. Sharpness wise its just okay. I have used better quality nail cutter from Revlon which costed me much less. So for the price, its absolutely not worth it.

@@Soon2berich It is a voyage nail cutter. Revlon isn't a watch maker, even less a swiss watch maker and they aren't working with metal for more than 140 years, when I'm talking of quality, I'm talking of built quality. I already manipulate both, Revlon's one isn't even close of the built quality of the victorinox. And Revlon is a cosmetic compagnie and they aren't transparent about their way of making their nail cutter, so ethics and ecologie are from far away for victorinox.

​@@suisseanonyme1033End of the day as a consumer the overall value of the product vs the price matters. And in that case, this product isnt worth it. I have other products such as knives and swiss cards by Victorinox and I find value in those.

I agree if you're just buying a nail clipper by itself, but there's nothing hard about opening it. You said it was hard, yet you had no trouble opening it in this video. No disrespect but I don't think you're very familiar with Victorinox SKA quality or products. I got this same clipper in the "Nail Clip 580" on sale for $26 in Amazon. It comes with these clippers, a nail file/flathead screw driver, tweezers , toothpick, scissors, knife blade and most importantly, a key ring so you can attach it to keys and won't lose it. I don't always remember to clip/file/clean my nails so this has been a lifesaver for me ahead of important or impromptu meetings. It is worth every penny I paid for it.

@@bplus2625 trust me its hard to open it. I can make another video showing the difficulty.

Thank you for such detailed info. I will include this in my next video that will be a detailed review.

The ink is Pelikan 4001. I usually use it for pens that ooze a lot of ink. This ink hardly feathers. I bought this from Makoba - their showroom in GK Delhi. You may also find it on tatacliq luxury website.