The Alchemy Fountain Pen comes only as a desk set. The body in red resin has two opposite nibs to write in two different colors or in two different types of nibs. The filling system, with eyedropper, has two separate demo reservoirs, one for each nib. The pen is magnetically suspended inside a display with two dragons forming a circle which represents the life cycle. A cone-shaped clear inkwell holds the dragons and the pen vertically. Trims are in silver and gold plating for the 1038 pieces edition, gold for the 238 pieces edition while diamonds complete the 38 pieces edition.
Symbology
The hermetic thought has an endless number of symbols. We have gathered in Alchemy Pen the most significant symbols of the Alchemic Opus:
Ouroboros: figure of a snake eating its own tail. With this imaginary symbol the pagan world wanted to represent the perpetual movement of the world: the unity of everything (the circle) which is distributed in the multiplicity of its cyclic transformations (the coils of the snake symbolize the lunar phases) returns in itself (the junction of the tail of the snake with its head), thus reconciling the apparent contradiction between and the unity and the multiplicity.
Red Color: Rubedo or final phase of the alchemic process or great work consisting in the philosophers' stone.
Cosmic diagrams: from the Sylva Philosophorum. They represent the macrocosm and the philosophers' stone with their relationships.
Androgynous: gold and silver. The philosophers attribute the female character (the Moon) to the humid and cold matter and the male character to the hot and dry matter (the Sun).
Alembic: the inkwell. It represents the laboratory of alchemy and the necessary work to complete the Opus. Two are the possible ways: the dry or the humid way.
Visconti definitely shows its creativity genius in this astonishing limited edition. Taking inspiration from the ideas of dualism and homage to Carl Gustaf Jung this double ended pen enables you to write with two different nib sizes and two different ink colors. Each half of the red resin barrel is beautifully overlaid with white and yellow gold plate engraved with symbols of the alchemy philosophy and embellished with precious 4k diamonds and rubies. The pen for sale is completely and absolutely perfect, sitting locked away in the vault.