Originally Posted by meat01
I really like your Mont Blanc, but they are a little to expensive for me. I like how they have special editions, like Pelikan has the city pens. Are Mont Blanc's piston fillers?
Thanks! I'm currently using a piston converter. The 145 Chopin is a cartridge/converter pen. I believe the larger models 146 LeGrand and the 149 are piston fillers. Surprisingly, my 145 Chopin writes better than my dad's discontinued 925 sterling silver, 750 gold plated body 144(?) Solitaire (Classique size). His pen skips occasionally, which is absolutely disastrous when one is using it as a signature pen. The Mont Blanc rollerballs are superb though... It's too bad they don't do Mozart-sized rollerballs.
Some say Mont Blanc pens are horribly overpriced and not worth it. Others going as far as saying that Mont Blanc is the Bose of audio and the Rolex of watches. Well, I personally thought that my money was well spent. It writes beautifully and also looks gorgeous. I was going to get the gold trim, but after some consideration, I went with the platinum trim. I definitely haven't regretted my purchase at all even though I had a chance to the try the Waterman Exception Slim GT, Pelikan M600, Mont Blanc Starwalker, Mont Blanc Boheme Bleu Platinum, Parker Duofold International, Mont Blanc LeGrand, all of which were properly amazing pens (with the exception of the Starwalker, which I didn't like the design of. Weight distribution was poor.). I was tempted to get the LeGrand, but I thought it was slightly too big and flashy for a university student. So was the Mont Blanc Boheme Bleu Platinum (the retractable nib takes too long).