Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This adds a whole new line to the LUG.... now how about watches? LOL - --- SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 4/20/01 9:24:23 PM Eastern > Daylight Time, > durling@widomaker.com writes: > > << I think there is definately a correlation between > liking things like > fountain pens and enjoying the Leica. It may be > the contrast with the > plastic high-techiness of contemporary things that > is so deeply satisfying. > >> > > Yes, yes and yes. Try 1960s Ferrari autos and Omas > fountain pens, the latter > still made in Bologna the old-fashioned way. In > 1926, Omas' founder invented > the safe way to make celluloid barrels for fountain > pens, by rendering > nitrocellulose inert (otherwise flammable and > potentially explosive). And > unlike every other pen manufacturer, to maintain > satisfactory quality Omas > manufactures its own vegetal resin from cotton it > has for years obtained from > a single plantation in Latin America. Sounds like > the old Ernst Leitz family > philosophy. > > LaK 9 ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie