Each Optima I’ve purchased, whether new or used, has worked flawlessly from the start. So anything I write about the Optima also applies to the modern 88.Ģ. Apart from the different body styles, the pens are alike mechanically from piston to nib.
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There are Optimas in the “Continents” series that have special resins inspired by each continent, along with special cap bands.įinally, the Optima is sibling to the modern Aurora 88. There are black resin Optimas with caps of sterling silver or other precious-metals, and there are Optimas that are sterling silver in both body and cap. This photo shows, left to right, the old-style, the new-style and the demonstrator cap bands.Īurora makes other versions of the Optima as well. Then my Auroloide pens have two styles of cap bands: the older style has three metallic bands with black in between, while the new-style one has one integrated cap band with “Aurora” in the middle area instead of the old-style Greek key design. Even if you just look at the two types of Optimas I own, you can see that the demonstrator cap band differs from the regular Auroloide cap bands. When you look at more than one of them together you get an idea of the variety possible. My green Auroloide seems to be comprised of a variety of different greens and even some blue resin.īecause each resin mixture, and thus each pen body, is unique, no pen will be exactly like another. The Auroloide pen bodies would be formed from pellets of several different colored resins.
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In the video, you can see how Aurora makes its own resin for the pen bodies, using plastic resin pellets that are melted in an injection molding machine into a liquid that is molded into pen parts. I’ll append at the end of this review a segment from the television series “How It’s Made” that shows how Aurora makes a fountain pen. The demonstrators are numbered limited editions and have 18k nibs instead of the usual 14k nib.Īpart from the demonstrators, I’ve tended to gravitate to Optimas from the regular line, featuring the multi-colored resin the Aurora calls Auroloide. Then there are two demonstrator Optimas, one with a red piston knob and cap top, and one totally clear. I don’t have one, yet, but a black and chrome Optima with extra-fine nib is one of the few pens on my wish list. The simplest and perhaps sleekest is solid black resin with either gold- or chrome-colored trim. The Optima is classic in design, with a shape that recalls the Parker Duofold.Īurora uses a variety of materials for the Optima.