This is a Grail Pen for many. Rightly so.

Pilot Custom 823 Black Fountain Pen

The Pilot Custom 823 Fountain Pen is a member of the classic Pilot Custom range of fine writing instruments. Made from luxury acrylic resin Ebonite and coated with an elegant black lacquer finish. The translucent barrel shows the current ink level and feed. Black coloured barrel, grip section and end pieces. The clip and barrel ring is polished and gold-plated.

One of Pilot's Fountain Pens.

This pen draws its ink using a vacuum plunger filler system, unlike a converter system, which allows much more ink to be taken into the reservoir. Even though the barrel is black, the part containing the reservoir is opaque, allowing the writer to see the ink level, thus slotting this model into the demonstrator category.

Fitted with an engraved 14-carat gold nib available in three sizes: fine, medium or broad, the pen simply glides across the page, as one would expect from a high-end Pilot fountain pen. If you are looking for your first gold-nibbed fountain pen, look no further than the Custom 823 from Pilot. Every serious fountain pen enthusiast has one on their wishlist or one on their desk.

Easily classified as one of the top models of Fountain Pens from Pilot, the Custom 823 is classical, elegant and highly sophisticated. With such a wide cigar-shaped barrel, it's a large substantial pen, giving pleasing feedback of weight and grip in your hand.