We received two pens in one box that is made to look like a true Montblanc box. True Copernicus pens have a seamless logo that is lacquered over to look like one piece regardless as to whether it really is. This one is a soft plastic that looks odd in real life, and you can see the edges of the hole they glued it into on the tail. The last big thing they got wrong is the company brand logo of the 6-point star or snow cap representing the mountain. One sneaky thing the pen forgers got right is that it uses real Montblanc ballpoint refills. On Montblanc’s high-end pens, there are no seams that are detectable, and we think the original pen had a mother-of-pearl star instead of a white plastic star. It is difficult to see in the photo, but you can see the edges where the white part was glued into the black part of the logo. Lastly, the pocket clip has a more obvious weld to the cap. While that pocket clip does have a serial number, it is a two-part number with a gap between numbers, which Montblanc doesn’t do. Plus, there is no “Pix” written under the pocket clip. We can’t get a good enough photo of it, but the floating star inside the clear cap topper is scratched. The biggest visual error you can spot is that the tail is black and not platinum or rhodium plated like the original. Those cheap, 1990s Sensa office pens with the huge “ergonomical” rubber grips decomposed to a sticky mess all the time, just like this pen. We haven’t experienced that in the originals, but this is common in cheaper rubbers and plastics. The first thing you can notice in real life, and not online, is that the rubber material is very sticky as it decomposes. BUT! A closer inspection proves it isn’t. At a glance, it looks like it could be the real thing. Up first is meant to be a rubberized Montblanc Starwalker fineliner. A close inspection of this pen reveals that it is a reproduction of the rubberized Montblanc Starwalker fineliner pen.
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