In this Monteverde Jewelria video, I've included some time markers so you lot can jump right to the parts you want to encounter:

  • Unboxing (0:54)
  • Closer await/details of the pen (ii:49)
  • Cardinal features (4:22)
  • Comparison to other pens (7:xxx)
  • Inking up and writing with it (8:30)

The Monteverde Jewelria is a pen that was released in the summer of 2013, and was overshadowed a little bit by the subsequent release of the more popular Monteverde Intima. Well, it's time I gave the Jewelria the attending it deserves, and what better way to exercise that than to introduce you to two new finishes for the pen in carbon fiber!

Materials

The original three colors of the pen are blackness, brown, and dark-green, which are turned cast acrylic acetate resin which are typically only seen in more expensive pens. Monteverde has brought these deep and attractive materials to a more affordable toll range in several of their models now. The Prima, Intima, and Jewelria all have bright, pearlescent materials in $50ish pens that you typically only see in $100+ pens. Simply what's more impressive is that they've taken 2 new carbon fiber materials, a black and silver, and put them on the Jewelria and kept the price the same.
It should be noted that the silver CF pen isn't technically carbon fiber…truthful carbon cobweb is made of carbon…which is black. This is some kind of argent/fiberglass textile that is woven to wait identical to a CF weave, but in silver. For marketing'due south sake they're calling it argent carbon fiber, and for the artful function of this pen that'due south exactly what information technology is. The weight/strength do good of real carbon cobweb isn't utilized at all in this pen, it'due south purely artful, then I only wanted to clarify the silverish colour to those of you who are hardcore CF fans. If you're hardcore into CF, then get the black i, that's the real deal.

Previously, carbon fiber pens were simply bachelor from Monteverde in the $100 list toll ($80 retail) Invincias, but the Jewelria is a $70 list cost ($56 retail) pen that has the same wrapped carbon fiber with a gloss end. I am a retailer who sells these pens and so please take my enthusiasm and excitement for these pens with that in mind, but know that I every bit a pen enthusiast genuinely get excited to see such innovations in a pen like this that I consider to exist a neat value.

Key Features

Some of the key features of the Monteverde Jewelria include:

  • Cast acrylic acetate resin or carbon fiber finish, great value in a pen in this toll range
  • Stainless steel #half-dozen nibs are large and write well, available in fine, medium, wide, and one.1mm stub in both silver and black finish
  • Nibs are easy to remove for cleaning/maintenance and swapping with other nib sizes
  • Nibs are sold separately from the pen, increasing the utility of a single pen
  • Very light, but 23g total weight and 12g in the pen trunk
  • Grip/body is thinner than most other MV pens, more comfortable in smaller hands
  • Cartridge/converter filling is piece of cake to make clean, and is standard international so yous have lots of ink options
  • Converter is included with the pen, and is threaded which helps keep the grip on the converter when filling
  • Converter is like shooting fish in a barrel to maintain and is cheap to replace if needed
  • Pen has sufficient 'bling' to it, without being gaudy. It's non understated, not overstated. Just stated.
  • The box/packaging is bonny and sturdy, and included a couple of ink cartridges to become y'all going

Not to view this pen through rose-colored glasses, I will too indicate out some things I run into as potential drawbacks for the Jewelria:

  • The box is a chip big, and if you have several MV pens y'all'll take to store these somewhere
  • The pen is actually so light that some will perceive information technology to be 'cheap', it'south virtually the weight of a Lamy Al-Star
  • Because the pen is fairly long, and much of the weight is in the cap (at the finial), the pen is back-weighted when posted, which some people don't like
  • The clip is a bit short, though it does go the chore done
  • The pen isn't eyedropper convertible, so you'll be limited in your ink capacity to what a standard international cartridge/converter holds

My overall impression of this pen is that while it'south not going to be my first go-to pen, I do profoundly appreciate that information technology volition be that for some of y'all. I actually didn't add 1 to my own personal collection when the original 3 colors came out, simply I have set aside one of each of the carbon fiber versions for myself. This is a pen I tin can meet carrying on me when I dress upward a little fleck, when I want to bear witness someone a reason why a fountain pen should cost more than a ballpoint ;) This is a pen that looks more expensive than it really is.

Where to Buy

These pens are all available at Gouletpens.com, and in fact the carbon cobweb ones are launching as an exclusive to our store. What can I say, we dear carbon fiber ;) The pens have a list price of $seventy, and volition be selling at our shop for $56 in fine, medium, wide, and 1.1mm stub in black or silver color finish. The not-CF pens are bachelor at any Monteverde retail that chooses to stock them.

I'd love to hear what you lot think of the Jewelria, if yous have i or if y'all're just seeing it for the first fourth dimension. Please share what you lot think in the comments!

Write On,
Brian Goulet