Karl der Grosse, Hommage à Charlemagne
The Patron of Art Edition Karl der Grosse, Hommage à Charlemagne pays tribute to this great cultural visionary of the first millennium with an equally great writing instrument. The barrel and cap of Edition 4810 are made of delicately wound 925 sterling silver. The detailed gold-plated mountings are reminiscent of Carolingian features in the decoration of Aachen Cathedral, where Charlemagne was crowned. In Edition 888, barrel, cap, rings and clip are all made of solid 750 white gold and decorated with tsavorites – green garnets. The hand-worked, rhodium-plated nib in 18-karat gold is decorated by an engraving of an early Medieval pattern and the emperor’s monogram. | |
| Limited Edition 4810 | |
| Launch: Limitation: | 2000 4.810 Fountain Pens |
| Characteristics: | •925 sterling silver barrel and cap •gold-plated mountings •Rhodium-plated •18-karat gold nib |
| Limited Edition 888 | |
| Launch: Limitation: | 2000 888 Fountain Pens |
| Characteristics: | •750 white gold •Tsavorites in ring and clip •Rhodium-plated 18-karat gold nib |
| More than 1,000 years ago, as the founder of the Carolingian Renaissance – the fusion of classical ideals with the intellectual heritage of the Germanic world – Charlemagne created the basis for western culture and a European identity. He was in constant and close contact with the great scholars and artists of his time, and established at his palaces the court schools in which, among other things, the Carolingian minuscule – the precursor of all later western families of writing – evolved. |