User:Autopilot/Lamy 2000



The Lamy 2000 is Lamy's oldest and flagship fountain pen. Designed by Gerd Alfred Müller and released in 1966, it remains in production today. The 2000 was innovative for its day for its use of a special fiberglass resin produced by Bayer, Makrolon, for the body of the pen. The pen's simple exterior design demonstrates the Bauhaus influence on Lamy pens, and that of "form follows function". In 1984 was awarded the Busse Long life design prize.

It is the only Lamy fountain pen that is a piston fill pen, so thus only takes bottled ink. The slightly flexible 14 carat gold nib is plated with platinum to produce a uniform colour scheme. The spring loaded clip was the first to be machined from a single piece of stainless steel and features the only branding on the entire pen: a small LAMY on the side and GERMANY on the underside where it is very difficult to see. The cap is held on via small metal "ears" just ahead of the ink window.

The classic design continues to be popular. The author Neil Gaiman wrote The Graveyard Book with his Lamy 2000, which he calls his "novel writing pen".