What an astute observation!
I literally have a second 0.5 black and gold coming any day now with a different nose and I never noticed.
Here is mine currently
Here is the one coming…
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I love this ‘lost period’ of Caran D’Ache’s output… zero catalogs AFAIK, yet some of the most interesting mechanisms and styling accents on an otherwise universal silhouette. @Leonov helped me to get one more variant with the ‘straight milled’ cone… and I was surprised that the mechanism is also different.
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I can’t wait until it comes in now. I saw it on eBay for $35 and immediately bought it. I thought I was just getting a duplicate for a phenomenal price….
Every day this forum identifies something new to me!
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This is something I find completely baffling: how is it even possible that a Swiss company with such a pedigree had no catalogues, brochures, leaflets, or anything like a partial documentation of its lineup is completely crazy to my mind.
I myself recently got one of their 849 single-colour mechanical pencils in 0.5, with a nice red hue. The only weirdness? The writing tip of the pencil looks completely different from all the other tips I see regularly advertised on websites.
Current production of CdA “executive” pencil (mostly 0.7mm specimens) exhibits a tip which I would define “demi-draft”: very short sleeve wrapping the lead core, with a striking similarity with e.g. the Pentel Excalibur or even more the Parker tip we can appreciate in the Duck’s group picture above.
My version is a much more “oval-esque” version, with zero lead sleeve, and a decidedly writing-oriented form, like the tip of a BP pen with a Goliath cartridge where someone has drilled a hole for the lead to come out — I don’t have the the pencil with me right now, so no pictures; sorry; I will try to add a shot as soon as I can.
Is it a variant? A production like flaw which has eluded quality control checks? A fake pencil (but it looks genuine)? We should start writing to CdA and ask for old internal documents…
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I’m going to take some pictures of the 3x 0.5mm Fixpencils. Hope we can see the one you mentioned!
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What would those 5 other Pentel pencils be?
I threw in a couple pens. And a few of them aren’t black!
The SG15 is the one in the original .picture (3rd from left).
I probably should have said, at least 5 more. You showed (at least) two versions of the P1035, plus there was the 1990 P3035. Plus the P1015 beside them.
Then there are the SG and Excalibur descendants.
Top to bottom:
Sharp Gold - from the Japanese 1970 One-sheet
SG7 Excalibur - first US Black and Gold Excalibur - I suspect there is an SG5, but not confirmed
SG7 Excalibur (version 2) - Came in an Excalibur set with the (properly marked) Excalibur RG10 - this one is marked “7” instead of with the Excalibur logo
SG7 Excalibur (version 3) - Also called the PX7-22. In Japan, the 0.5 version was the PX22.
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Thanks! I wasn’t sure if you were including variants and/or special releases. My Pentel’s in the pic from left to right are P1135, P3035, P1035-AXKS, P1035-XAD, and PG1015LGA. (I’m not sure where I put my couple Excalibur variants.) For other black and gold Pentel pencils, I think there is a Graph 1000 variant, and of course the P205. Also the jCLUB, Rolly, Lancelot, and Clicsharp. (I only know those because of your ID book! Thanks again for that!)
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Actually that is a P2135 instead of a P1135. The gold version was ¥2000 vs the silver ones being ¥1000, and thus the different model number.
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A bit dramatic, but still black and gold.
Some have pencil counterparts, but these are all ballpoint.
Only two of 'm knock, the others twist.
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Is that Berol a BP or a clutch point?
Berol Continuum
Auto feed tip press
Definitely recommend
It was a pleasant surprise
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Might be the best Berol of all
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I don’t think I agree
I do love it though
Yowza…that is nice!!
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Green and gold, and the white and gold really stand out!
‘Black and gold’ can feel like “executive’s uniform” for the office desk sometimes 
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What’s the best Berol?