2000 Fountain Pen / Lamy
The Lamy 2000 has been in production unchanged since 1966, which is the clearest evidence of how resolved Gerd A. Müller's design was. Müller, who came to Lamy from Braun, built the pen as a piece of Bauhaus reasoning: a seamless barrel of Makrolon, a fibreglass-reinforced polycarbonate that is warm to hold and faintly grippy, joined to a brushed stainless steel section with a seam you have to search for. The nib is a semi-hooded 14k gold point, platinum-coated and hand-polished, and the pen fills by piston straight from a bottle, with a near-invisible ink window to check the level. The spring-loaded clip and snap cap complete an object designed to disappear into daily writing. It suits anyone who wants a lifetime pen with no decoration to date it.
Design intent
- +Müller hid the joins: the Makrolon barrel and steel section meet with a near-seamless transition, so the pen reads as a single continuous object rather than an assembly of parts.
- +The piston filler and integrated ink window commit the pen to bottled ink and large capacity, treating the filling system as part of the design rather than a cartridge afterthought.
Trade-offs
- -The semi-hooded nib has a narrow sweet spot, rewarding a consistent grip angle and rotation and punishing an irregular hold until you adapt to it.
- -The 14k nib is proprietary and not user-swappable like Lamy's steel nibs, so changing the writing feel means a professional tune rather than a quick exchange.
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The Lamy 2000 has been in production unchanged since 1966, which is the clearest evidence of how resolved Gerd A. Müller's design was. Müller, who came to Lamy from Braun, built the pen as a piece of Bauhaus reasoning: a seamless barrel of Makrolon, a fibreglass-reinforced polycarbonate that is warm to hold and faintly grippy, joined to a brushed stainless steel section with a seam you have to search for. The nib is a semi-hooded 14k gold point, platinum-coated and hand-polished, and the pen fills by piston straight from a bottle, with a near-invisible ink window to check the level. The spring-loaded clip and snap cap complete an object designed to disappear into daily writing. It suits anyone who wants a lifetime pen with no decoration to date it.
Design intent
- +Müller hid the joins: the Makrolon barrel and steel section meet with a near-seamless transition, so the pen reads as a single continuous object rather than an assembly of parts.
- +The piston filler and integrated ink window commit the pen to bottled ink and large capacity, treating the filling system as part of the design rather than a cartridge afterthought.
Trade-offs
- -The semi-hooded nib has a narrow sweet spot, rewarding a consistent grip angle and rotation and punishing an irregular hold until you adapt to it.
- -The 14k nib is proprietary and not user-swappable like Lamy's steel nibs, so changing the writing feel means a professional tune rather than a quick exchange.
