This is the continuation of the discussion we were having on this other post
So from the listing photos I thought that it just had “Pilot Fountain Pen Incorporated” engraved, but oh was I surprised when the package arrived today!!
パイロット萬年筆株式会社 Pilot Fountain Pen Incorporated
創立六十周年記念 60th Anniversary of Foundation
I am beyond blown away!
Wow, lucky buy!
I thought it was printed, but the kanji is engraved! Can’t beat this specimen 
CONGRATULATIONS! Looks amazing. I’m also impressed the Kanji is engraved into the steel. That’s rather special.
By the way, Diego… I know that rattling thing is a pet peeve (notable annoyance) of yours.
I have both 2+1 steel stripe versions – this 1st release and the conical tip 2nd release. When doing a rattle test of both, the 1st gen is WAY louder! I was shocked, actually. The 2nd release is relatively quiet.
Btw, I have like 4 or 5 of the conical (2nd) and 3 of the rounded tip (1st), and I tested all of them.
And in case anyone is interested… it’s possible to take this 2+1 pencil apart. It’s really tricky, though. I may do a write-up on it, if there’s others who have trouble with their 2+1. In my case, I had a really worn out user grade example that I’d gotten in a pencil lot many years ago. It wasn’t working right from the get-go, so I set it aside. Eventually I recovered it again and then, since it’s worn and I was mostly using the pencil, I attached it to a notebook. Well, eventually it had a failure and wouldn’t function right without manual intervention (unscrew the front and manually manipulate the inserts). The other day I decided, out of curiosity from a convo with Diego, to take the thing apart. Why not? It was junk otherwise. And I fixed it! There was a small fragment of plastic that had somehow come off one of the plastic frames inside the D1 holder structure. And that was making a nightmare for the mechanism. With it out, and reassembled*, it works once more.
