GRAF VON FABER CASTELL PERFECT PENCIL PROJECT STELLAR
그라폰 파버카스텔 퍼펙트펜슬 프로젝트 스텔라
I was aware of Graf von Faber Castell releasing a new limited edition of Perfect Pencil and have kept my eyes on it for a few months.
I purchased it as soon as it became available in Korea.
Thank you Korean Faber Castell for importing this, since I've been worried they might not import this because of low demand.
There wouldn't be many people who are willing to spend such a huge money for just a pencil, you know.
This will be a good entity in my collection of Perfect Pencils.
Albeit price never tells one's value of course, this model has the second greatest price in the Perfect Pencil series.
Limited editions of Perfect Pencil in Graf von Faber Castell can be arranged in the descending order according to their prices: 240th anniversary model, Project Stellar, 260th anniversary model, and Champagne gold model. (If I remeber correctly)
It's impressive there is a QR code on the backside of the paper case.
This leads to the global official site of Faber Castell.
The exterior has a delicately shinning silver color.
Graf von Faber Castell, Project Stellar.
It's time to open the box!
The upper box shows the Earth with its serial number and the signature of Charles Alexander Graf von Faber Castell.
This mimicked the style of the blueprint of a spacecraft.
All the ingredients are decomposed.
The packaging tends to be too bulky for high-end models.
For the first time, Graf von Faber Castell provided an exclusive prop for the Perfect Pencil.
This must be motivated from the launch pad of a spaceship.
It leaves a little bit to be desired that most concepts were motivated by spacecraft, rather than by cosmic objects.
There are so many beautiful things in the universe, and I believe they provide enough inspiration for the design.
As it has the name "Stellar," I wish it had more concepts related to the cosmos - stars, nebulae, galaxies, black holes and things like that.
Doesn't CMB(cosmic microwave background) have a nice design?
All black colored pencil.
Have you heard of the word "black body?"
The Cosmos looks black to us.
At this moment, a historical paradox comes to my mind.
The Olbers paradox claims, put it simply, there are stars at every direction of the Universe so the Universe has to be bright!
Homogeneity and isotropy are reasonable starting points, but the "observable" Universe is finite since the Universe is not perpetual.
The Cosmos where we live has a finite age and the speed of light is also finite, which adds to the result that we can't see every star in the Universe.
This delivers only half of the story.
As a matter of fact, the Cosmos is far from being dark!
The Universe is surprisingly full of light, it still looks dark however.
This is because the Universe is expanding.
When the Universe became transparent at the very early stage, lights covered the whole Universe, but they became cooler as the Universe expands.
If humans could "see" microwaves, the Universe wouldn't have been dark!
The same reasoning goes for the neutrinos and gravitons.
When the Universe first began, all the interactions (or forces) were merged into one.
This is what the GUT(grand unified theory) tells.
As the Universe gets cool down, the interactions started to be separated one by one, and the corresponding force carriers became free.
Shining finish with PVD coating of titanium.
This part wasn't like this originally in fact.
The backend had the same color as the cap at first.
Why Faber Castell changed this part?
The reason is unclear, but to my personal opinion, the all black color pencil presents better unity.
Here's the cap.
It overall has a silvery color, while the specific material is not manifested.
On the official website, it says "matt platinum finish" and "golden clip and cage."
Should I take it the cap is made of platinum?
This seems to be the first Perfect Pencil with matt color as far as I remember correctly.
What Faber Castell intended by this color?
Does it indicate the color of the Moon?
That sounds reasonable to me.
Otherwise, Faber Castell might have intended the metallic color of the space shuttle.
Still, I'd expect better material for its price, $750, whatever it purposed.
Being pricey doesn't mean anything.
I'm always wary of modern pens becoming to luxurious.
They are often superficially adorned with gemstones, jewelleries, and extravagant designs.
I'm curious whether this is the right path.
Being skeptic of this is my personal standpoint though it might be lucrative.
A blue sodalite gemstone is located on the top.
This represents the Earth seen from the space.
Astronauts would have seen this serene but brilliant view too.
Now we can enjoy this exclusive preserve at our home.
I love this point too, and this sense deserves some compliment.
Gold clip and gold cage.
Let's set the common gold clip aside and focus on the gold cage.
This design is the first attempt and quite looks good.
Is the clip gold-plated or just gold colored?
Serial number (xxxx/1000)
Endless stories can be told regarding the Universe.
Astrophysics and Cosmology are highly attractive fields - anyway I believe we all humans want to know where we come from and how everything started.
I'm glad Faber Castell made a pen based on the concept of the universe.
There are tons of treasures - the birth and death of a star, the various demises of stars depending on their mass, the way they collapse, the formation of a galaxy and its evolution, dark matter and dark energy, big bang and inflation theory, modern terminologies like Hubble tension and lambda CDM, holography and black holes...
Phew! You name it!
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