Invention of the fountain pen

At PRECIREX TECHNOLOGIES, innovation has always been one of our founding principles. 🤔

In the 1890s, the Rubin brothers, founders of our Minirectif company, teamed up with a mechanic from the Geneva region to propose an innovative solution to a doctor. The latter could no longer bear carrying his inkwell to all his patients to write out his prescriptions. 😷

So the brothers got to work and came up with an ingenious system for putting ink directly into the nib. A patent was registered for the nib, and a few examples of these innovative prototypes still exist.

Later, the Waterman brand invented a baffle system to optimise the regulation of ink flow and prevent it from drooling on the paper.

Even back then, ingenuity, precision and attention to detail were in our DNA. 💠

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