Fountain pen, Omas Samo, 6th century

OMAS "SAMO" FOUNTAIN PEN. Blue celluloid barrel and silver details and ornamentation. Limited edition. Exemplary 079/572. Two-tone 18 kts gold nib. Tip F. Screw cap. Piston loading. No box. It presents slight deterioration little appreciable in some metallic parts. Measurements: 15 cm. length, 20 mm. diameter.

Samo is the new OMAS limited edition, a tribute to the interface between the cultures of the West and the East. It goes back to the origin of things and expresses a world of ideas from the 6th century BC when the island of Samos was at the height of its role as a point of exchange of goods and thought in the Aegean Sea. Here differences were accepted and knowing them meant acquiring new ways of understanding one's own reality. The great inventions of modern thought began on Samos, from geometry to astronomy, poetry, engineering and architecture. Great men were born there, from Pythagoras to Aristarchus.

Samos represents an idealised geography where civilisations coexist that in some cases would have had no other way of meeting, like the American continent that is a paradoxical Far East. The clip, elongated beyond the cap and with the engravings of OMAS and Samo, represents an idealised bridge linking East and West. Samo is an anagram of OMAS and the Italian translation of the Greek "Samos". In translation, the meaning changes and becomes a source of new meanings and new richness. To arrive at the luxury of something unique: writing traced by hand. Samo is a fountain pen that underlines the first steps OMAS took almost a century ago in elaborating the visual traces left by the Hellenic civilisation. Samo combines luxury, culture and design.