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== Meisterstück Design ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' The collection is 100 years of Meisterstück. I don't actually feel like this has got anything to do with Wes Anderson, other than the fact that he made an ad. Because there's nothing to these products, really, that you haven't seen before, except they're in green. Some of them. Not even all of them. They haven't even... They're not doing the Meisterstück fountain pen in green. Which is just why they do the ballpoint in green, but the fountain pen don't like. I was just really disappointed because I was expecting lots of beautiful pastel colors, right? Like Wes Anderson style. But it's just, here's our existing products. And some of them have a new color, but not all of them. Yeah. I was very disappointed when I looked at these products. And then the ad kind of turned it around for me because the ad has in it what I wanted, which was, here's a pen that actually looks like Wes Anderson would make. Like, which is the pen that's in the commercial. Which appears to be from, I mean, I'm stealing your work here, a modified version of the Heritage Rouge et Noir Baby, which is the little pen. But it's... And I found an image of it because they don't show it anywhere. But I found an image of it. And it's like two-tone green and a yellow. And it's like perfect. Like, this is a pen that I want desperately. And I will probably buy this pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So a couple of things. I agree with you that... So the collection, I don't think should be called the Wes Anderson collection, even though the URL has collection slash Wes Anderson, which I think is... But the header to the page is 100 Years of Meisterstuk. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And the actual description, I think, makes it clearer, which is, explore this curation of accessories as featured in our short film by Wes Anderson. So that's kind of more what's going on as opposed to the fact that like... Which I don't think... I don't think Wes had anything to do with this collection. This is just a bunch of stuff that they put together to celebrate Meisterstuk.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So green is the running theme throughout the products. Not everything comes in the green. They have, you know, a bunch of, you know, very Mont Blanc type of things in there, including pens. But then you have sunglasses and bags and all kinds of accessories and things like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Some of the bags are beautiful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, there's several items in here that are beautiful. And then you go, like you're saying, to the pen, which is a take on the baby, which you mentioned. And that came out two, three years ago as their small, obviously small, pocket pen. And it has the great classic large snowcap finial with the red finial color on there, which I think is just a classic beautiful color. And then now you get your Wes Anderson style. It's in the baby. So the baby is built with a metal grip section. And so the previous versions were black and rhodium plated, I believe. And then white or pearlescent. And it might have been rose gold trim on that one. We'll have to look at that. I'll have to verify the two colors, but it was two colors. Those came out about three years ago. Very popular. They were very popular when they came out because they're small and cute. And, you know, you don't, this, this word is incorrect, but compared to the rest of their lineup, affordable, right? It's only a six or $700 pen and compared to like a 12 or $1,400 pen, but it's a small pen. And this is, this is Wes Anderson, like perfect type of design for this pen. Like, you know, the three, the three colors, then plus the rhodium plated grip section, and then the red trim, and then the ivory snow cap. It's, it's just loaded with color and style and feel. And like, I might have to get this one right. Like I literally own one other Montblanc, it's a small Bohem, like, which is in the same size category as this one. This, it just looks spectacular. So I'm glad I have a year to save for it because I will probably need to end up with this pen because of the style, not like completely, like it doesn't matter if it's Wes Anderson or not. I'm glad, I'm glad it doesn't have like a signature or like stamping on there. I'm glad it's just the color base, at least as far as we can tell. Again, this is not a product that comes out until next year, but the mock-up or the, the original design here is fantastic. And we'll be talking about it again when it launches, because I think it's that cool looking. I'm shocked by Montblanc to do this. I I'd say probably not because they've done some special, like they've done like the Beatles and they do all their like big, big one-off type of stuff. That's really wild. But this is more of a main lineup. Yeah. I think this is more of a main product.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, for me, it's more surprising because they have seemingly given him free creative reign with the commercial and they're making fun of the brand on an anniversary, which is a weird time to do that. Yep. Right? Like it is, it is strange to make fun of the company that's celebrating something in a commercial for said company, but it makes it authentic and more watchable. So they, they, whoever it was that made the final decision on this made the exactly the right decision because this, it was made infinitely more enjoyable based on the fact that it was quirky and fun and weird. Yep. And it like just totally worked. Totally worked.