SOLAIA LIMITED EDITION - Omas Homage to Marchesi Antinori
Omas confirms its own passion for the world of wine with its new Limited Edition, dedicated to the prestigious Italian wine tradition, which pays homage to Marchesi Antinori’s seventeenth-century history. Omas and Marchesi Antinori, both symbolize the refined exclusiveness of Italian products, reflecting similar values in their handcrafted tradition, with attention to testing and innovation. The *wine* origin of the Antinori family dates to 1385, when Giovanni di Piero Antinori became part of the *Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri*. Since then, 26 generations have managed the business with unwavering respect for tradition and the land. Today, Marchese Piero Antinori together with his three daughters, perpetuate Marchesi Antinori’s spirit, tradition, passion, and deep-seated values which made this wine house one of the main Italian producers of quality wine. In 1978 Solaia was first produced almost accidentally, thanks to Marchese Piero’s intuition. It was the first Italian wine elected *Wine of the Year* in 2000 by Wine Spectator Magazine and continues to increase in popularity worldwide. The Oak Wood of the Marchesi Antinori barrels, where the precious wine has aged for years, produced in the Tignanello Estate in Tuscany, form the body of the Solaia Limited Edition. Elegant engravings recall the world of this noble wine: the family coat of arms and the vine plant dominate the cap surface. The shape of the wine barrel douelle is skillfully recalled in the rounded clip. Recalling the first historical Solaia wine year, there are 1,978 pieces in the Edition: 1,200 piston filling Fountain Pens and 778 Rollerballs. The box, inspired by the Solaia wine packaging, exalts the beauty and the splendor of the precious writing instrument.

The patent for the original Omas Doctor pen was issued in 1927 to Armondo Simoni, the founder of Omas. The first pen had a special elliptical shape (which is celebrated through this current design), which was way ahead of its time. Today’s version is made of a blue/black cotton resin cap with a sterling silver body consisting of the Aesculapius stick. Piston fill with 18 kt gold nib, available in M, F, XF and B. ONLY 185 FOUNTAIN PENS WORLDWIDE.

Do you focus more on the white or the black…or do your eyes take in the whole as one and, perhaps, form an illusion all your own? With your Optique writing instrument, you can sit back and visually form an image via its organized chaos, as you would when viewing a pure white cloud against a perfect sky blue background. In the Bologna Optique limited edition, made by OMAS exclusively for Fountain Pen Hospital, no two pens are alike…some offering more of the white background, and others predominantly black, but each offering a special discreet serving of its own in the popular Bologna profile. The 14 kt gold nib is available in Fine or Medium width, cartridge/converter fill. An extremely limited, numbered series—only 50 fountain pens, 25 rollerballs and 25 ball pens have been produced as this special Italian resin was in such short supply.

Do you focus more on the white or the black…or do your eyes take in the whole as one and, perhaps, form an illusion all your own? With your Optique writing instrument, you can sit back and visually form an image via its organized chaos, as you would when viewing a pure white cloud against a perfect sky blue background. In the Bologna Optique limited edition, made by OMAS exclusively for Fountain Pen Hospital, no two pens are alike…some offering more of the white background, and others predominantly black, but each offering a special discreet serving of its own in the popular Bologna profile. The 14 kt gold nib is available in Fine or Medium width, cartridge/converter fill. An extremely limited, numbered series—only 50 fountain pens, 25 rollerballs and 25 ball pens have been produced as this special Italian resin was in such short supply.

Do you focus more on the white or the black…or do your eyes take in the whole as one and, perhaps, form an illusion all your own? With your Optique writing instrument, you can sit back and visually form an image via its organized chaos, as you would when viewing a pure white cloud against a perfect sky blue background. In the Bologna Optique limited edition, made by OMAS exclusively for Fountain Pen Hospital, no two pens are alike…some offering more of the white background, and others predominantly black, but each offering a special discreet serving of its own in the popular Bologna profile. The 14 kt gold nib is available in Fine or Medium width, cartridge/converter fill. An extremely limited, numbered series—only 50 fountain pens, 25 rollerballs and 25 ball pens have been produced as this special Italian resin was in such short supply.

The Silk Way refers to the network of caravan and trade routes, covering approximately 8,000 km over land and sea, and along rivers, along which trade flowed in Antiquity between the Chinese Empires and the West. For centuries, caravans of camels loaded with silk passed along it. For a long time, China kept the secret of how this valuable material was manufactured, thus guaranteeing a monopoly of this highly prized product which found purchasers as far away as the Roman Empire in the west. The name “Silk Way” appeared for the first time in 1877, when the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen published his work Tagebucher aus China. This Limited Edition pays homage to this route which condenses in a single expression centuries of history and events which have marked the destiny of peoples and cultures. Made entirely of solid silver, on the surface of which can be seen meticulous enamel decorations of the most representative elements of the historic route. On the cap, embellished with a jade tip, is masterly microfusion and enamel work symbolizing the overland journey completed by the caravans of camels across the desert. The clip, like the 18 kt gold nib, is decorated with the arabesques which appear on the flag of the “Serenissima” Republic of Venice, the homeland of Marco Polo, the most famous traveller between West and East. In contrast, the reservoir represents the geography of the sea routes which connected the West, starting from the Venetian lagoon, to the East and the coasts of China and Indonesia. Even today, the Silk Way is synonymous with exoticism, adventure, cultural exchange and travel to distant lands. In further tribute to the German text which memorialized the Silk Way in the year 1877, a total of 1877 writing instruments have been produced: 1,000 piston-fill fountain pens and 877 rollerballs.