The Most Expensive Luxury Pens in The World

Luxury pens are not only practical, they’re also a status symbol and even a popular form of investment amongst the wealthy.

Don’t believe us? Keep reading for some of the most expensive luxury pens in the world!

The Four Seasons Pen - R 500,000

The cheapest luxury pen on this list is worth a staggering R 500 000 (yes, for a single pen) and features 18-carat gold. However, this is not its most interesting feature. Just as the season’s change, so does the Four Season’s pen, in spring the fountain pen spews green ink, red in summer, brown for autumn and grey for winter! 

To add to the exclusivity, there are only 33 pens created and each is set at R 500 000. However, if you can find one on sale today, you’ll likely pay significantly more for this interesting collector’s item!

The Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece - R 10,6 Million

This edition is the lovechild of Montblanc and Van Cleef & Arpels and is certainly one of the most beautiful and expensive pens in the world. In fact, each pen is decked out with 840 diamonds and more than 20 carats of gemstones set in Van Cleef & Arpel’s signature ‘Mystery Setting’ that conceals the stone settings. 

This masterpiece is almost too dazzling to use!

Heaven Gold Pen by Anita Tan - R14,5 Million

This luxury pen is out of this world! No really, this pen is inspired by the celestial movement of the planets in the solar system and is fittingly known as the ‘Heaven Gold’ pen. 

What’s more, it’s designed by a woman for women! Canadian jewellery designer, Anita Mai Tan with 161 vibrant diamonds circling a 43-carat Tsavorite gemstone estimated to be over 2 billion years old.

Aurora Diamante by Aurora - R 21 Million

The Aurora Diamante is more than just a pen, it’s a practical piece of jewellery. In fact, it might be called a Diamante, but the pen is completely dazzling with over 30 carats of De Beers diamonds on a solid platinum barrel. Additionally, it features a two-tone, rhodium-treated, 18KT solid gold nib and is personalized with a coat of arms, signature, or portrait.

This luxury pen is definitely fitted for someone with a million-dollar signature!

Montblanc Boheme Royal Pen - R 21,9 Million

To those who truly know luxury pens, it should come as no surprise that Montblanc is on this list again. 

This stunning pen worth a staggering R21,9 million forms part of Montblanc’s Boheme collection and is crafted with 18-carat white gold and studded with over 1,430 diamonds of the very highest grade. What’s more, the stones have a light colour that adds a unique touch to the pen’s aesthetic. To top it all off, even the Montblanc logo is dazzling in 18-carat white gold and 19 diamonds. 

Lastly, this is also one of the only fountain pens in the world with a retractable nib.

Fulgor Nocturnus by Tibaldi - R 116 Million

In 2020, the Tibaldi Fulgor Nocturnus pen was sold for a whopping R116 million and is thereby well-deserving of the number 1 spot on our list of luxury pens. 

The fabulous Fulgor Nocturnus luxury pen by Tibaldi’s design is based on the divine proportion of Phi. This means that the proportion of the pen’s cap and the barrel of the pen when closed are equal to the phi ratio which is 1.618.

What’s more, this luxury pen is dazzling with 945 black diamonds, 123 red rubies, 16 clips above the small button on the cap and a golden nib for durability. Needless to say, this luxury pen is the gold standard that every pen collector dreams of. However, there is only 1 in the entire world. 

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