Rarity: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ULTRA RARE
Limited edition: 77 pieces produced
Nib size: Medium
Accessories: Complete of all the original boxes and papers
Conditions: In mint condition, never inked
Diamonds: 0,04 carat, brilliant cut, TW colour, VVS clarity
Sapphire: 0,12 carat, fac. cut, top blue colour, fine quality clarity
Former French President Georges Pompidou founded the Centre Pompidou as a home for art, music, literature, and cultural expression.
The skeleton pen’s overlaid white gold lattice echoes the architecture of the center.
The pen is decorated with several rings of small diamonds, while the clip finishes in a brilliant sapphire.
5 5/8” (14.4 cm).
The 18k - 750 gold rhodium plated nib is engraved with an image of Pompidou.
The concerned pen has never been used nor inked. Full set configuration: black lacquered box with all original packaging and (blank) papers.
Georges Pompidou: a French European
Georges Pompidou, born in Montboudif in 1911, followed in his parents' footsteps after completing his education at the Grand École Normale Superi-eure in Paris, working as a secondary school teacher in Marseille and Paris. In 1944, Pompidou was called to join the cabinet of the man who was to have a decisive influence on his political career: General Charles de Gaulle. Pompidou served as the director of the general's cabinet for many years until de Gaulle appointed him to the second-highest office in the state in 1962: Pompidou became the French Prime Minister. During his six-year term, he initiated extensive economic, social and educational reforms.
When President de Gaulle resigned in 1968, the doors to the Elysee Palace were left open for Georges Pompidou: on 15 June 1969, he became President of the French Republic. In the five years that he was in office, Pompidou pushed through the modernisation of France by pursuing visionary social and
economic reforms and an ambitious cultural policy. Throughout his life, Pompidou was a fervent supporter of the European union - his name is inseparably linked to the expansion of the European Community and the successful entry of Great Britain in 1972. Georges Pompidou died in Paris on 2nd April 1974.
The living center of a cultural nation
At the beginning of the 1970s, Georges Pompidou had a dream: he wanted to create a public institute in the heart of Paris which would offer a home to modern French art as well as to literature, theatre and other forms of cultural expression. However Pompidou would not live to see the opening of the establishment he had initiated: the Centre Pompidou on the Rue Beaubourg opened its doors for the first time in 1977 after six years of construction, three years after the death of the man who had given it his name. The cultural centre and its unique architecture quickly drew large crowds: more than 8 million visitors every year have made the Centre Pompidou one of the most frequently visited cultural institutions in the world since 1977. Above all, the Musee d'Art Moderne draws art lovers from around the world to the "Centre" - a unique collection from modern art history comprising works of famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro or the Nouveaux Realistes is to be found here on an area of some 10,000 m. Besides the art collection, the Centre Pompidou houses a library, the Institute for Music and Acoustics and smaller temporary exhibits - the centre envisioned by Georges Pompidou has become a living part of modern Paris and the global art world.
It is a special honour for Montblanc to dedicate an exclusive series of writing instruments to the founder of the Centre Pompidou: the Limited Edition Georges Pompidou - recalling the year of the opening of the Centre Pompidou, strictly limited to 77 units
The Limited Edition Georges Pompidou
Derived from the striking architecture of the Centre Pompidou, the Limited Edition Georges Pompidou is made of delicately skeletonised solid white gold which surrounds the transparent barrel and cap. The clip, also formed of white gold and crowned with a radiant blue sapphire, recalls the exterior of the Paris Cultural center. Ten small diamonds adorn the head ring, cap ring and cone of the writing instrument, while the Montblanc star made of mother-of-pearl graces the head of the cap. This extraordinary Limited Edition, perfectly completed by a platinum-plated nib made of 18-carat gold and engraved with a portrait of Georges Pompidou, is dedicated to one of the greatest representatives of the French cultural nation whose heritage has continued to live in the heart of Paris since 1977.