[hammyhavoc]

The Mont Blanc inks are all hype, IMO, as is pretty much everything they sell by modern standards since the acquisition and treatment of it like a luxury brand in the '90s rather than focusing on innovating in tools. Plenty of other decent inks for less. It's like saying Tiffany makes great jewellery and has great quality stones because the pricing is high.

The Jinhao 159 is creaky junk and buying it supports the CCP. As with the ink, it's people kidding themselves that just because Mont Blanc charges x for y then that must make x somehow special and worth having in 2023. For the same price point, you can do much better, and probably even go Japanese-made, and not support the CCP.

It's a century later, with modern manufacturing techniques, don't you think someone can do better than a Meisterstuck or Meisterstuck clone?