Who is WECLE? How do you pronounce it? Are they an in-house brand of MITUKAN? Why do some of their designs resemble more famous ones from Tombow? Why does the packaging sometimes include the name/phrase 4Dimension? Why are they so obscure and undocumented? Why??? 
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Is this vintage or recent production?
I love the Nitro, the knob like a screw and the “MARK I” designation …
If I just read the name in German pronunciation, it sounds like the swabian (German region) dialect word for a bread roll 
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I think you also know that seller on mercari who has been selling a lot of wecle brand pens. To design these pens is one thing, and for a leisurely collector like me, I might be willing to buy one or two of them, but as a product, from their company’s perspective, when facing the mass, do they really expect to see significant sales for these odd-looking products?
I bought the second one on the right in your photo, mp&bp. The mp is made of all metal, weighs 26.4g, bp is much lighter, the grip is rubber. As you can see, they didn’t do a good job on the seams of the rubber. I used a file to fix it myself.(apart from this, I feel satisfied with their quality) Although they are both matte finish, bp’s surface was designed to be slightly rougher.
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Can you tell me the make of the pen on the right - interesting style
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Hey @PaulB56 welcome to the forum.
which picture are you referring to?
The pen to the right of the Tombow 707 (the other pen are the Wecle, Tombow 727 & Tombow 707).
Many thanks for the reply - never heard of the company, but the pencil is pretty unusual.
I love the oddly ‘Memphis’ styling of the WE CLE range. I picked up a boxed example this month, with a great spattered ‘Marble’ barrel that reminds me of the stairwell and dining room in the 1988 Beetlejuuce film, in which Tim Burton sent up the Memphis/Ettore Sottsass design school style beautifully… This is a very heavy 5.6mm repeater/knock pencil. Powder coated/painted solid brass. It reminds me of the ‘Rough Beehouse’ Japan pencils that are similar shape and size.
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Very nice!! Welcome to the World of WECLE! I think ‘Memphis’ is pretty on the spot as a short hand for their eccentric fascination with geometric forms and pops of color. 
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