Aurora Leonardo da Vinci 939 Fountain Pen

Aurora Leonardo da Vinci 939

Aurora reaches its highest levels of perfection and elegance in its tribute to the most influential Italian figures in history with the Leonardo da Vinci 939 fountain pen, an impressive limited and numbered edition writing pen dedicated to one of the greatest geniuses of all times.

Painter, sculptor, anatomist, engineer, inventor, philosopher, architect, urban planner, musician, poet... With his extraordinary intellectual restlessness and his prodigious inventive capacity, Leonardo embodies the ideal of the Renaissance man versed in multiple disciplines that today, around five Centuries after his death, he continues to surprise us with his immense erudition and artistic sensitivity but, above all, with his enormous ingenuity and the visionary nature of many of his technical proposals, which, although on many occasions they did not go beyond the theoretical level, They advanced solutions that would end up being realized hundreds of years later.

The Leonardo da Vinci 939 fountain pen draws from this chimerical and non-conformist spirit, a delicious work of art in which, along with its unquestionable aesthetic refinement, one can see a laudable interest in the contribution of technologically innovative elements.

Its cap and body are plated in 18-carat gold and completely surrounded by a magnificent engraved decoration that faithfully reproduces fragments of his “Codex of the Flight of Birds,” a manuscript written between March and April 1505 in which the wise man Florentino meticulously studies the maneuvers in the air of different birds, the mechanisms that allow them to take flight and their potential transfer to humans through mechanical devices devised by himself. In one of those capricious twists of fate, this amazing treatise is currently kept in the Royal Library of Turin, the city where the Aurora company was founded in 1919 and where, to this day Today, its headquarters continue to be located.

Special mention deserves its wonderful clip, an attractive element conceived by the prestigious jewelry designer Giampiero Bodino and equipped with a rotating mechanism that is inspired, like its curved silhouette, by Leonardesque flying machines.

Certainly original are also its loading system, which is activated through an ingenious lever hidden under the barrel of the fountain pen, and its stylized nib, made of solid 18-carat gold with delicate shapes that are intended to evoke in our minds the light pen. of a bird. The latter is available in various thicknesses and cuts ranging from the most common EF, F, M, B and BB, to the less common italic, stub or oblique ones for right and left-handed people (check availability and possible additional costs).

It is presented in an exceptional noble wood case and its production is limited to only 1919 units in memory of the date of founding of the brand, a circumstance that makes it an absolutely exclusive piece.