The Parker Pen Company is an American manufacturer of luxury pens, founded in 1888. Parker Jotters were a favourite choice of President John F. Kennedy for signing legislation and to give as gifts. Indeed, successive presidents from Kennedy to Clinton used Parker pens for these purposes, and Parker retained a special representative to handle White House orders. In one of his early years in office, Lyndon B Johnson ordered no less than 60,000 Parker pens! From 1888 to present day, Parker’s craftsmen and designers have never stopped working, innovating, and reinventing the Parker pen. Modern Parker pens are complex mechanisms of up to 21 individual parts designed to work together to produce pens of discerning quality. Attention to detail is at the core of every Parker pen and it requires expert craftsmen and designers to create them.