During 2008 the number of Personal Computers in the world reached one billion (the news came out in June 2008): this is almost one for every seven people living on earth!
Omas wants to celebrate this special and important moment, which combines technology and emotion, in the history of world progress.
In the recent past, the arrival of the PC and its mass distribution in everyday life had seemed to mean the gradual disappearance of the pleasure of writing by hand. In actual fact, contrary to what you might imagine, the irruption of the High Tech world has paradoxically encouraged the rediscovery of the uniqueness and emotion which writing can provide.
The FPC collection, available in Fountain Pen and Roller Ball models, has been made in treated aluminium, paying homage to one of the most commonly used materials in the High Tech environment. The use of this technological material also gives the pen weight and ideal balance while writing.
The new Omas Limited Edition has been designed to celebrate this event and covers the basic stages which, from the first calculation tools used by mankind, have over the centuries led to the invention and continual improvement of the computer.
The 360 model, which has been a design icon for many years and is definitely OMAS's most "futuristic" collection, has therefore been reinterpreted with a guilloché decoration on the three sides of the pen: the two front sides give a detail of the design of the first hard disk made in 1956; the clip affixed to these sides represents a stylized form of an abacus used in 1200 AD. The third side shows a detail of the design of the CRAY X1 Supercomputer, created in 2003 and capable of carrying out 52.4 thousand billions of operations a second.
The incisions on the nib-holder and tip-holder represent Greek and Roman calculation tables from 500 BC to 500 AD.
Finally, the OMAS nib presents the stylized form of a ruler used in 1650.
This Limited Edition comprises 1.008 Fountain Pens and 1.000 Roller Balls, the sum of which - 2008 - represents the year of this epochal event.
