It may not look like much - and is a drop in the ocean to some of you - but this is the most pens I’ve got in one go - and 3 of the 4 were available in orange! (Chosen for type and size - just happened to be available in that colour!)
Yay me!
And - yes - the S10 box is broken and has been reported to Amazon!
You can never go wrong with the S10 (one of my favorites).
Enjoy!
@griffisu - The S10 is to in some way replace a mystery (possibly Pilot) pencil that was stolen from me 25 years ago.
The (ongoing) search for that is outlined here. I’ve been searching now for 25 years.
Final update - wins all round!
My wife reported the broken presentation box to Amazon - got a full refund on the S10 (there’s only one thing better than a great mechanical pencil - and that’s a FREE great mechanical pencil!)
With the help of some wonderful members here on Knockology - my stolen mystery pencil was identified as a Kuretake MP-77.
Now I just have to find someone who wants to sell me one!
I’m actually curious how a Kuretake made its way to your local store!
It was the first time I truly noticed a mechanical pencil.
I’d had a 2mm clutch tucked into my Staedtler College Set back in high school,
but it was more artifact than companion,
ignored, misplaced, eventually lost without ceremony.
Then one afternoon, wandering the college shop;
that strange little cave of erasers and rulers and drafting gear
from brands I’d never heard of, some I couldn’t even read,
wedged between overpriced textbooks and stacks of notebooks,
I saw it.
Sleek.
Space-age.
Packaging adorned with mysterious Japanese script like a message from another world.
I don’t remember the price - only the feeling:
I had to have it.
That was thirty-six years ago.
And then, in 1998, it vanished.
Stolen from my desk while I was away,
Burying my father. They took his fountain pen too.
During his illness, I’d sit cross-legged on the grass
beneath the shade of a tree in the square outside our offices.
natty in my three-piece suit,
Sketching things familiar and dear, dreadful and nightmarish.
It was a kind of therapy,
A way to keep the approaching grief at bay for maybe just an hour.
That pencil was my tether.
A slender talisman of resin and metal - both tool and memory,
a portal to somewhere quieter.
While it was in my hand,
I could suspend reality,
vanish into line and shadow,
carving the shape of things not yet lost.
And then,
in a moment,
that too was taken.
I will keep an eye out for the your Kuretake! 
@Mecha has already found one for me!
Apologies to all for including you in an impromptu self-help therapy season earlier - but you’ve all helped me chart a course on a really healthy journey and aided me on a path to find some closure on a whole lot more than just a lost pencil.
A month and a half later - I’ve found myself using the S10 more than either my new Tect 2way or Tombow MonoGraph. I just love the balance of the thing (being a leftie - I like them to be nose-heavy!)
