The Lamy 2000 fountain pen is very highly regarded among pen lovers and aficionados.

The Lamy 2000 was designed by the Bauhaus designer Gerd Muller in the early 1960s and follows the philosophy of that schools of design that form should follow or take second place to function.

The Lamy 2000 features a hooded nib and a piston filling mechanism. There is a see through ink window which allows you see how much ink you have left and the barrel and cap are made from a product called Makrolon which is a fibreglass resin.

The nib is constructed of gold but plated with platinum to maintain the overall black and silver look of the Lamy 2000 fountain pen. The clip is a squarish, brushed metal affair and is as unostentatious as the rest of the pen with it’s simple, curving form.

If you like classically designed, simple objects then the Lamy 2000 will appeal to you. It offers the choice of extra fine, medium, broad, extra broad, oblique, medium/oblique and extra broad(OBB) nibs.

Generally the Lamy nibs write a little thicker than most other brands and the ink filling mechanism of this pen is unusual insofar as it does not take cartridges or an ink converter but only takes ink from the ink bottle by using the piston mechanism.

What you do is screw and unscrew the back of the pen which contains an internal reservoir for the ink and the screwing and unscrewing mechanism causes it to suck the ink back in to the reservoir having expelled the air from it.

The Lamy 2000 fountain pen is certainly a smooth writer and at less than $100 is great value.This is a great, scratch resistant, tough fountain pen in which the function over form debate is clearly apparent and function wins out.
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