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Platinum 3776 Century Nice Rose Gold
Platinum 3776 Century Nice Rose Gold
The southern French resort town of Nice has long been known for its sunlight, mild weather, and clear waters. The Platinum 3776 Century Nice Limited Edition fountain pen pays homage to this relaxing beachfront town by utilizing a ""diamond cut"" shape and transparent cap and body. Rose gold trim and a 14k rose gold plated nib add to the image of luxury, perfect for a town known for attracting aristocrats, celebrities, and artists since the 19th century.
The Platinum 3776 Century Nice Limited Edition is offered with your choice of 14k solid gold rose gold-plated nib.
The faceted finish mimics the softly rippling waters and the way sunlight reflects off of the water's surface.
The light texture of the barrel and cap of the translucent Platinum 3776 Century Nice Limited Edition fountain pen can be felt between the fingers. This pen can be filled with bottled ink using the provided converter, or with Platinum brand cartridges. It can also utilize Nakaya's hand-painted Maki-e converters.
With a surface as clear as the waters of Nice's "Bay of Angels," you can see the ink as it travels to the nib and onto your paper.
The first 2000 Nice fountain pens will be engraved with a serial number. For a highly affordable price you can own a limited edition fountain pen with excellent writing capabilities.
These 14k Platinum nibs are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, or Left Oblique, as well as the modification for added flex. Platinum's "Slip and Seal" cap system is designed to keep ink fresh and the pen ready to write. The rose gold clip is elegant and functional, allowing you to affix this mid-size writer to a shirt pocket.
The 3776 Century Nice Limited Edition fountain pen comes attractively packaged in a white presentation case and includes converter and a starter ink cartridge.
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Customization Guide
Stub
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Above is the same size nib after a regrind to Stub. A regrind to Stub is often a good place to start for your first customization. A Stub nib provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes while writing, and is less position-sensitive on the paper than the crisper and slightly more demanding cursive italic.
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Cursive Italic
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More demanding, but also providing crisper edges and more line-width variation, is the very popular customization to Cursive Italic. This also provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, but is also more position-sensitive in terms of how the pen is held and requires more skill on the part of the user. This is a common customization for artists and calligraphers, but is still smooth enough to make for a good everyday writer.
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Formal Italic
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Formal Italic is an even crisper and more demanding customization than either cursive italic or left oblique, and is usually utilized for calligraphy and by the most experienced users. This provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, with even crisper corners and edges than a cursive italic - this is an extremely position-sensitive customization.
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Left Oblique
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Commonly used for signatures and correspondence, the Left Oblique customization provides broad diagonal strokes and narrow cross-strokes, and like a cursive italic, is more position-sensitive and demanding than a stub. The whole pen must be rotated to the left in order to write smoothly, without skipping. The "Left" in Left Oblique refers to the cut of the nib itself, and does not refer to the handedness of the writer. |
Architect's Point (Also for Arabic and Hebraic writing)
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A more exotic regrind is that to Architect’s Point. Named after the style of writing used by Frank Lloyd Wright, this regrind is the opposite of cursive italic, and provides for broad cross-strokes and narrow down-strokes. This also tends to be a particularly useful customization for those practicing Arabic or Hebraic calligraphy. |
Spencerian
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Perhaps our most popular customization, but also one of the most advanced, the Mottishaw Spencerian Customization has gained special attention from being featured in a customer's YouTube video which has now received over twelve million views! The Spencerian starts from a semi-soft 14k nib and adds additional flex and a regrind to needlepoint to create a specialized writing point used for copperplate calligraphy. For more details, visit our special Spencerian page.. |