HERMES Nautilus Ballpoint High-end Capless Pen Designed by Marc Newson For Sale

This stunning luxury pen in deep blue color features a retractable nib and a unique rotating mechanism, and the body is made of solid aluminum and stainless steel.

The design and development of this gorgeous Nautilus pen required approximately three years, as it involved fitting a rotating mechanism inside a very small space. In the own words of its designer, Newson: “This is the most complex object you could hope to design from an industrial design perspective. It’s sort of like a watch inside – there are about 300 moving parts. The size makes things more complex because you have to work on a much smaller scale.”. Newson also remarked that “All of this pen’s subtlety derives from the way it works. At first glance, it looks anachronistic. There’s nothing technological about its appearance. It looks easy to use, obvious, instinctual. But it’s hiding a mechanism that’s part genius, part magic! A mechanism that’s given rise to a whole new gesture. This is neither the logic of a screw-on lid nor a press button system. You just twist it, turning the body of the pen, which opens and closes neatly and very gently.”
Read more about the pen in this Forbes magazine article:

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