The barrels of these beautiful writing instruments are made from especially hard-wearing materials. Piece by piece, a grain guilloche is engraved using a method normally used for jewellery or silver accessories. The barrel is then refined by hand-lacquering and polishing. The barrel and fittings of this rhodium version are fully rhodinised for hard-wearing beauty. The pocket clip is spring-mounted. The fountain pen features a hand-made 18-carat gold nib, rhodium-plated. Nibs are run in by hand at the workshop. The pen can be used with either international standard cartridges or with bottled ink using the supplied converter. All Graf von Faber-Castell writing instruments are supplied in luxury presentation boxes.