Montegrappa creates beautiful writing instruments admired all over the world by collectors and pen enthusiasts. In addition to the standard and limited edition products that Montegrappa produces, the company prides itself in being able to satisfy the desires of even the most exclusive users. Montegrappa has an in-house team of artists and artisans who can create unique and one-of-a-kind pieces covering all levels of customization.
Design your own pen using the Montegrappa Configurator
Let your imagination run free: select the colours, trims and details that tell your story. This service is available on the iconic models, Zero, Extra and Extra Otto.
Zero Custom
Strut your creative stuff by designing your own ZERO Custom on Montegrappa Configurator. Simple design controls let you experiment with every element and view your composition in 360º high definition. Fine-tune casings, trims and detailing to set the look that tells your story. Our Custom Shop takes your design from zero to ZERO in only twenty days
Extra Custom
Montegrappa Configurator makes you the creator of your own Extra Custom. A simple design dashboard gives you command over nine key elements, and the power to take our flagship silhouette to new levels of excellence. Rollerball mode is also available for convenience, comfort, or to create a matching set made entirely in your vision.
Extra Otto Custom
Add your own gourmet flavour to our most complex silhouette. Multi-faceted meets multi-choice on Montegrappa Configurator. The writing world’s only design dashboard features a sumptuous buffet of connoisseur-grade options for our famous ‘heritage fusion’ design. Mix materials, colours and textures to tell your intriguing story, and realise your own vision of luxury.
Private Bespoke - Creating Your Dreams
Any project that can be thought of is realisable by Montegrappa - the team is ready to realise the most imaginative conceptions...
Hand Painting
Decorating the initial letters of manuscripts in scarlet red and painting tiny-size pictures onto the pages of the holy books is an art form that has centuries of history. Montegrappa hand-painted pens represent a magnificent tribute to this ancient craft, also known as "miniature".
Equipped with miniature-drawing brushes and a palette of acrylic colours, any kind of image one may wish to be reproduced on the resin surface of his or her bespoke pen is possible, thanks to the incredible talent of our highly-specialised craftsmen. Once the work is completed, a creative process that may take even months, the drawing is sealed with three protective layers of transparent gloss to obtain brilliance and durability over time. The customer also has the option to choose a matt finish.
Hand Engraving
Originally used as a printing method, hand-engraving is an ancient and noble technique, which evolved over time into a true decorative art. It requires incredible human skill and precision. Engraving with a burin is made entirely by hand, and the unique aspects of the final artistic output are unreachable even for modern technologies such as laser and diamond-cut etching.
Low-relief hand engraving is also the technique of choice for the fine decoration of Montegrappa bespoke pens. It transforms personal images as people portraits into luxurious sterling silver or solid gold replica-surfaces that eventually embellish the pens’ barrels and caps.
This often requires long months of meticulous work with the help of a microscopic lens, in the effort of making reality and design meet.
Amphora
Amphora fountain and rollerball pens possess the curvaceous, almost human form that is rounded in ways which ensure that the pen falls naturally to the hand.
The cap disc can be either hand-painted or hand-engraved, with any design element the customer might wish it to carry.
Your Amphora pen will join the objects handed down from one generation to another.
Extra Bespoke
An image of a family member or oneself, a much-loved pet, a favourite building, a cherished possession, a landscape or an object of art, a personal symbol or sign... Using ages-old techniques and traditional tools, our craftspersons translate the customer’s chosen image into a pattern to be hand-engraved or hand-painted on both precious metal or resin, at the client’s behest.
It is at this very moment that your pen is transformed into a true objet d’art.
Arte
From cars to tailoring, from one-off timepieces to customised hi-fi, the demand for made-to-measure creations is returning to levels that rival the boom period of the 1920s and 1930s. At that time we saw the most flashy cars that ever traversed the avenues of Nice, Beverly Hills, Paris or Berlin, and it was also the era of writing instruments that were just as splendid.
Those days have returned and Montegrappa welcomes them with ARTE, our new programme of custom pens.
Personalised Cufflinks
Customised Initial Engraving on Cufflinks
Monogramming in fine sartorial tradition. Personalise an Italian cuff classic using our complimentary precision-engraving service. Simply select your preferred letter-form and add your initials. Yours. Forever.
Corporate Creations
Perfect business gifts for your organisation
Montegrappa can create a customized pen design for corporate / business gifting, integrating logos and corporate colours. For quantities over 100 pieces, pens can be made in any PANTONE colour and featuring brand logos using a variety of techniques from machine engraving to UV printing on different parts of the pen
Packaging
Montegrappa can customize packaging as per your requirements.
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