Visconti Divina Proporzione Limited Edition Fountain Pen 18K M Nib - Perfect

Description

The Proporzione was the first of Visconti’s Divina series, released in 2007. A pentagonal pen with swirling facets lined by inlaid sterling silver, the Proporzione was built around the principles of the Divine Proportion of 1:1.618. (Also known as the golden ratio). It’s a mathematical representation of proportion that is very pleasing to our aesthetic sense and is found all over the place in nature.
The Divina is a lovely, oversized pen that just has that flashy-yet-refined look that Visconti pulls off perhaps better than any other manufacturer. The body of the pen is made of one of the most stunning burl wood celluloids I’ve ever seen in my life. It does look alarmingly like real wood. The dark browns and blacks are offset by the beautiful streamers of sterling silver inlaid into the face of the pen.
The cap features the MyVisconti medallion in the top, and the very standard Visconti hinged “bridge” clip. (Love it or hate it.) At the other end of the pen is the access to the pen’s “Push and Pull Touchdown” filling system, on which the pen’s limited edition number (xxxx of 1618) is engraved. Unlike later Divinas, the Proporzione has an ink window that is visible even when the pen is capped.
The cap utilized Visconti’s safety hook and latch system that requires only a slight press down on the cap and a quarter-turn to uncap the pen. Under the cap, you’ve got a standard-sized concave section and a #6-sized smooth Medium Visconti nib in 18k gold with an unusual brown plastic feed. The feed has a stunning design on it, and the masking to plate the bi-color nib was perfect.
This is one of Visconti’s oversize pens. As such, it’s very large and doesn’t need to be posted to be usable for all but the most massive of hands. The cap can post, and when it does post the swirling lines of the cap and barrel line up perfectly.
Material: Celluloid
Nib: #6-sized 18k gold bi-color medium
Appointments: Silver
Filling System: “Push and Pull Touchdown”
Length (Capped): 149.75mm
Length (Uncapped): 136.8mm
Length (Posted): 169.3mm
Section Diameter: 11.0mm
Barrel Max Diameter: 13.8mm
Cap Max Diameter: 15.8mm
Weight, Uncapped (with ink and/or converter): 25g
Weight, Capped (with ink and/or converter):45g
This pen will arrive in NOS condition in its original packaging with HUGE wooden box, cloth bag, and everything shown in the photos.
I am asking its original price in 2007: .618
Thinning my overgrown collection....