Prices for Rotring 600s Getting Ridiculous
11:27 am July 30th, 2008 by Sal Cangeloso
It used to be that if you wanted a great pen or pencil, something with some heft to it but also something durable with a very clean design, but you did not want to spend a lot than the Rotring 600 was a great choice. If you were a bit more picky than you could opt for one of the original models (with the knurled grip). If you were a bit more picky than you could upgrade to the gold series. If you were a real Rotring connoisseur you got yourself a gold series with the the twist action.
These twist (retractable) models have always been hard to find, but lately the prices have been insane.
Check out this eBay auction- $219 for the pen! At retail this pen was probably no more than $50 (just a guess) but now they appear on eBay a few times a year and always go for over $175. The same goes for the less desirable pencil…
I find these days I use writing utensils so infrequently, and I am so used to keyboards, that when I do write it feels slow and awkward. I think a pen like that would be wasted on me.
Yeah I know what you mean- I use a Uniball Signo 207 (great pen) for all my day to day writing, but that’s just scribbling notes from time to time.
You can still pick up a rotring 600 for a relatively OK price, but nothing like 3 or so years ago. As for the prices on the retractables, they have just gotten insane… Unjustifiable even.