Monde des Stylos

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 relea...

And so I attended my second Pelikan Hub event in my home city of Singapore on 27th September 2024. My first Hub attendance was last year, also in my home city. As usual with Pelikan Hubs, I got to make new friends in the community, tried out lots of fountain pens that I had never seen or held in my hands before and of course, I allowed my new pen friends to try out my pens as well. This year, I brought along 12 fountain pens for the Hub; mostly Pelikan.  M1000 Black & Green Stripes, M800 Green Demonstrator (Original 1992 version), M805 Black & Blue Stripes, M600 Vibrant Orange, M600 Glauco Cambon, M600 Green-White, M605 Stresemann Anthracite, M200 Smokey Quartz and M205 Aquamarine.  I also brought along a few pens from other make and models including a Pilot Custom 823 "Smoke", a Delta Gallery and a Sailor Shikiori "Manyou". And there were the usual Hub souvenirs courtesy of Pelikan; an event commemorative Notepad and a bottle of Pelikan's 2024 Ink of th...