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Pelikan Edelstein Ink - Apricot Achat

Pelikan's Edelstein Ink of the Year for 2025 is the Apricot Achat. I do not have any original photos in-hand because the product has only just been announced and has not yet ship at the time of this blog post. However, product pictures are available in the internet and a simple search will bring up lots of similar photos if one is interested to know what the newly announced ink looks like. 

What will the ink swap of the newly announced Apricot Achat looks like? We will all have to wait for someone somewhere to get those first bottles in hand, have that ink swap done and to post the photos online. Fingers crossed that this will be a good ink to add to my ink pool! 

Pelikan Edelstein Ink of the Year, Moonstone in 2020 and Star Ruby in 2019

I am an avid collector of the M200/205 series of Pelikan pens that are usually released each year in conjunction with the Edelstein Ink of the Year. The first of this series was in 2015 starting with the M205 Amethyst and the most recent release being the M200 Golden Lapis in 2024.

However, I missed out on the Amethyst in 2015 because I was not into fountain pens yet at that time. Thus, my collection only started with the 2016 release of the M205 Aquamarine. It has continued since and if Pelikan stays with the trend and release another M200/205 based on the Apricot Achat this year, I will likely be adding this pen to my collection. The year is still young though at this point in time. Pelikan will typically announce the matching pen to its Edelstein Ink of the Year only sometime later in the year, with the pen usually starting to ship to retailers around the third calendar quarter. 🖋


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