Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen | Medium Point | Black Ink | All-Metal Body Pen | Chocolate Truffle | Non-Slip Knurled Grip & Hexagonal Barrel | Refillable

If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.I’ve been buying these for about 30 years now. They have a heft that says, “I’m about to do some serious writing. Avert your eyes least ye be blinded.” You can easily imagine how Rotring pens are, truly, mightier than the sword. Their pencils are my favorites though. They have a very nice tactile feel and heft. The only thing they fail on are the erasers. Rotring know this, we know this. The eraser is a bit like … jumping out of a plane with an umbrella instead of a parachute — you think it’s better than nothing, but you know if you use it’s still going to end messy.Good news is you can buy erasers that do a better job than anything attached to the back of any mechanical pencil. It seems a poor compromise to make, but if Rotring were to ever master a built in erasure, well, it would be a little bit too much perfection for this world. We hardly deserve these pencils as they are. Let’s not tempt fate.Sadly, I keep losing my Rotring products. Or, my coworkers love them. Either way, Rotring keeps making more and I can personally attest to their continued quality over the years.

This Rotring 1.0 mm pen, Chocolate Truffle color, is really a work of art. The German engineering is superb. The weight is ideal and well balanced. I really love the color; it seems to have some red in it therefore, giving the pen a somewhat Burgundy color, and not a dark brown Chocolate color as I thought it would be. I am not too crazy about the ink quality though, it doesn't appear to be very dark, and I would think, that a 1.0 mm width line would be wider/broader than what I am seeing here.

Perfect weight, perfect knurling pattern, and when paired with a refill that fits your writing style it's the perfect pen.If I would redesign it, however, I would might the grip a little wider.