Sold in the exclusive Harrods store in London, UK, the “La Modernista Diamonds” pen went for a cool $265,000. Designed by the Swiss company Caran d’Ache, and created in memory of the modernist architect Antonio Gaudi, the solid silver pen boasts an 18-carat Rhodium-coated gold nib and is set with a total of 5,072 Wesselton diamonds weighing in at 20-carats, as well as and 96 rubies totalling 32-carats.
The pen was hand made by master jeweller Robert Perron and took six months to complete.
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Pretty pen, but not for 265,000. LOL