on saleVisconti Van Gogh Fountain Pen - Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh is my favorite artist of all time, and Starry Night is perhaps his greatest work in my eyes, though it is hard pick a favorite. This pen has quite the legacy to live up to in just being based on that painting. Mine is more reminiscent of Starry Night over the Rhône than it is of Starry Night; it's the lack of bright yellows and oranges. This is not an issue because it is still incredibly beautiful. I could wax on about how gorgeous the pen is, but the three stars looms over head.

My Van Gogh is a 1.1 Stub, and until about 2 hours ago it was a dry writing, irritating to use, **** of a pen. I bought this thing in 2018, and I've spent far to many days trying different inks, different ways of holding the pen, different pressures trying to get this thing to write. I adjusted the tines to be wider, narrower. I tried wetter inks, drier inks, and hand made mixtures. Nothing seemed to work. So tonight, February 13th, 2025, I finally grew the courage to pull the nib and feed out of the housing and give the feed an extremely thorough inspection. The ink channel in my feed was clogged, not with ink, but with a small chunk of ebonite. Having removed that, and done some very slight deepening of the channel, the pen now writes better than it ever has, and has propelled itself to being my second favorite writer after my pair of Lamy 2000s. So why 3 stars? For almost $300, this pen should have been writing like this out of the box. I'd be ok with the nib needing a small amount of tuning, but having to pull out the feed just to find a tiny chunk of ebonite clogging the feed up and slowing the ink flow significantly, no that's unacceptable. Homo Sapiens just fell off of Grail pen status because of this. I love this pen, but had it been writing like this from the get go, it'd be 5 stars all the way. I will likely never purchase a new Visconti ever again because of this.

I recently purchased this pen as a graduation gift for my daughter. She loved it -- it writes beautifully and choosing fountain over rollerball turned out to be perfect. It writes beautifully and the little bit of extra effort to fill it is actually a plus, and makes it seem a little more "fancy" :)

I absolutely am enamored by this pen. It writes like silk right out of the box. I had heard complaints that the colors of the pen are too muted, but I think they are true to Van Gogh's color palate for Starry Night. My favorite pen of my collection bar none!

Overall experience was excellent!! The customer service was very attentive to any needs I had and I highly appreciate company's such as this one! I will be obtaining more pens in the future! Thank you

I've never quite understood people's passion for fountain pens. Whenever I've heard people in the past discussing a "fountain pen collection", I just shrugged, and thought to myself, "I don't get it". I bought my first fountain pen. This one. Now I get it. The pen feels wonderful in my hands, writes smoothly and beautifully, and it's made writing fun again. I've received several compliments while using it.