Montegrappa The Witcher: Mutation Rollerball

Montegrappa’s The Witcher: Mutation is a limited-edition release created for the blockbuster Netflix series The Witcher, and is ready to ship to markets from the first week of September, 2023.

The Witcher: Mutation sees Montegrappa returning to the realm of the imaginary, combining aesthetics, materials and presentation to captivate aficionados of the popular book, game and television franchise created by Polish fantasy author Andrzej Sapkowski.

Limited to only 200 fountain pens and rollerballs, The Witcher: Mutation is directly inspired by the saga’s chief protagonist, Geralt of Rivia. Like the mutant monster hunter, this edition carries two swords: one for fighting humans and one for slaying monsters. Geralt’s enchanted silver sword provides the clip, while an electroplated brass sword can be used as a letter-opener when it is not sheathed in a scabbard on the cap’s reverse face.

The Witcher’s battledress inspires the edition’s materials and finishing, with printed and textured vegan leather laminated onto the cap and barrel, and antiqued sterling silver mimicking Geralt’s riveted armour and wolf medallion. Pearl-grey celluloid is used to realise the grip section and blind cap. Key techniques used in its creation are lost wax casting, high-relief engraving, screen-printing and high-frequency texturing.

The fountain pens carry our prestige piston-fill mechanism and a 6mm 18K gold custom nib engraved with Geralt’s White Wolf emblem – also the show’s official logo – in grades of EF, F, M, B, Stub 1.1.

The custom packaging carries on the hunter theme of the writing instrument, containing a bonded leather tool roll with replica coins and a pocket for stowing the letter opener and other travel essentials. A wooden presentation case features a wolf medallion inlay and sits inside an inner case wrapped with maps of The Witcher’s mystical lands.

Italy's first pen producer, Montegrappa, began manufacturing pens in 1912 in its factory in Bassano del Grappa in Italy. Utilizing natural celluloid and precious metals,Montegrappa combines traditional methods such as die-casting with more recent innovations as low-relief engraving to form their precious art objects. Whether Montegrappa use colors reminiscent of the master painters or ornamentation suggestive of Baroque palaces, the Italian heritage and romance is infused into each product.