Refills

Traveling Inkwell

Ballpoints
Divina Black New!
Divina LE
Opera Black Guilloche'
Opera Club
Van Gogh Midi One Left
Van Gogh Maxi
Wall Street

Rollerballs
Divina Black New!
Divina LE
Opera Black Guilloche'
Opera Club
Van Gogh Maxi
Wall Street

Fountain Pens
Divina Black New!
Opera Black Guilloche'  
Opera Club
Van Gogh Maxi
Wall Street

Visconti writing instruments are handmade in Florence, Italy from precious and unique materials. With an eye toward re-discovering and preserving forgotten artisan traditions, toward devising and implementing advanced technology, and toward fitting inspired form to function, Visconti is the world leader in design and technical innovation.

In 1988, after several years of experience in the field of fountain pens, Dante Del Vecchio and Luigi Poli, also collectors of antique writing instruments, decided to set up a company with the aim of producing and promoting celluloid fountain pens.

Although this material had been abandoned by the established brands since more than thirty years, Dante Del Vecchio and Luigi Poli strongly believed in its technical and aesthetic value and in a tradition of more than fifty years of beautiful fountain pens. Celluloid is an environmentally friendly and modern material, which does not derive from petroleum products, but from cellulose and camphor. It is not only available in a very wide range of colors, but it is also shockproof — a fundamental characteristic for a valuable pen production.

At the outset the biggest problem was finding the celluloid, which had become extremely scarce. One of the oldest companies to produce celluloid had even thrown out its production machinery. However, convinced by Del Vecchio and Poli's tenacity, that same company resumed production.

The second problem was finding the machines, but in time the two owners managed to put together a team of artisans with varied experience who, out of pure love for fountain pens, applied their talents to the various phases of handcrafting celluloid. Two years after the first collection, in 1990, Visconti achieved a small undertaking in the area of industrial archaeology, and was able to assert itself definitively in the world of pen collection, with the series of numbered and certified pens made of material from the 1950's.

After years of experience in the making of celluloid, Visconti is the largest celluloid pen factory worldwide and offers its service and experience to anyone who wishes to produce pens with this material. Always sensitive to market demands Visconti extended its experience to other materials like ebonite, acrylics, lucite, bakelite and ivory; and following the Florentine tradition Visconti extended to — and even introduced new techniques for — solid silver, solid gold and precious jewelry.