Montblanc M Artfineliner by Marc Newson 114187

Lightweight pen, feels appropriately balanced when writing with the cap off. I love the EF artfineliner refill in the pen, as it performs nicely when working in smaller day planners and notebooks. My only reservation about the pen is that you cannot post the cap - but I quickly realized I just needed to think creatively. I leave the pen cap attached to my planner's pen loop, and gently pull the pen out when needed. The magnetic closure offers security as well as ease of removing the pen body from the cap. The pen cap is held in place in the planner's pen loop by the clip, so there is no fear of losing it. As a result, the M is an everyday writer for me. I did opt for this one over similarly priced Montblanc pens because it has a very different style and I find their more traditional pens a bit boring.

Great looking Pen! It's a nice modern twist on a classic. Some complain that the pen can not post the cap on top, this is true but not a big deal for me, I have a lot of expensive pens that dont do this. Its not a design flaw, the intent is to show off the MontBlanc logo near the top of the pen plateau. FYI if that's still an issue with you, they make a matte finish version which does allow you to put the cap on top like older versions.

A very good pen. This is basically the rollerball version, but ships with an extra-fine felt-tip refill. Just be warned that this pen doesn't use the standard Montblanc rollerball/fineliner refills, but uses a shorter capless refill. It's the equivalent of the Schmidt P8126 refill, but the Montblanc version has a small plastic spacer on the back end, so the cheaper Schmidt refills won't properly fit. Oh, and the cap does not post on this pen. Despite all those gripes, it's a great note taking pen. If you don't mind the rather inflated price.

Great pen, love the magnetic cap. I have other Mont blancs but i don't use them often because it takes too long to unscrew and rescrew. but the M is great, it's now my daily pen

Amazing product an amazing experience with the seller

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This pen is an example of what is so frustrating about the intersection of design and functionality -- or in this case, lack thereof.Reviewing the rollerball version here, it writes wonderfully, smoothly, crisply, as is expected of any Montblanc product. For its price point, you are certainly paying for a named designer layer-caked onto the Montblanc brand itself.The M had a potential to be a reformulation of what a writing instrument could be, but it comes as only half-baked. The user--the writer--is sadly left out of the equation.The missing link is exactly that: the cap does not post onto the pen.So what should I do with the cap when I'm writing? Hold it in my free hand? Scatter it across my desk? Use it as a tie clip? (but hey, at least it would be a Marc Newson tie clip, right?)This is what boggles me: a designer is given a huge opportunity to really help redefine the modern luxury writing instrument yet the most basic pitfall of an orphaned cap escapes the design process? The inclusion of the end user as part of product quality is starkly absent. So while the look and feel is high quality, the functionality is not. This is the pen equivalent of a Lamborghini convertible whose roof, instead of retracting into itself, must be fully detached and left in your garage. Technically a convertible. Technically a Lamborghini. But functionally annoying. At least it would be a Marc Newson Lamborghini.The pen is not designed for anyone that actually puts pen to paper. It's functionality screams, "Keep my cap on, don't use me to write." So unfortunately the Montblanc M is a lost opportunity where design has been executed for visual effect only, not for design and functionality operating in artful harmony.At best, this is a pen designed for the designer himself, not for the actual user.If you're a Montblanc fan as I am, there are a fabulous set of alternatives in the Montblanc universe that better converge design thinking with function and performance. This is not one of them.I give the M a grade of F.