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SAMO LIMITED EDITION

Samo is Omas's tribute to the interface between the cultures of West and East.  It goes back to the origin of things and expresses a world of ideas from the 6th century BC when the island of Samos was at the peak of its role as a point of exchange of goods and thought in the Aegean sea.  Here differences were accepted and getting to know them meant acquiring new ways of understanding one's own reality.  In an endless series of reflections and references.  The great discoveries, or rather, the great inventions of modern thought began on Samos, from geometry to astronomy, poetry, engineering and architecture.  Great men were born there, from Pythagoras to Aristarchus.

At the special and multifaceted figure of Pythagoras, born in Samos in 572 B.C. and father of the famous theorem base of modern mathematic, is connected the “magic” numeration of Limited Edition Samo by Omas.
572, year of birth of Samo’s most important figures, are the pens in solid silver.
14 models in solid rose gold with 14 diamonds on the clip. The number is the sum of the three figures (as the three sides of the right triangle of Pythagorean Theorem) 5, 7 and 2.
7, as the 7 sages of ancient Greece, group to whom Pythagoras belongs composed by semi-legendary wise people from the archaic age often regarded as the founders of Greek philosophy, are the pens in solid rose gold with 14 diamonds on the clip and 1 diamond on the cap that ideally reproduce Pythagoras native island, Samos.

Samos represents an idealised geography in which cities are names, frontiers are lines, rivers are connections and the symbols, although arbitrary, have lasted for more than 2000 years.
It is home to civilisations which in some cases would then have had no other way of meeting.  This is also the paradox of modern language.  Apparently common to everyone, each individual gives it a different meaning.  It is a personal idiom, founded on one's own story.  Samo is the Italian translation of the Greek "Samos".  In translation, the significance shifts and becomes the source of new meanings and new wealth.  To arrive at the luxury of something unique - writing traced out by the hand.  Thought drawn in an original form.  This is another reason why Samo is an anagram of Omas.  Is it the same thing, or the thing itself? After almost a century of history, the fountain pen underlines the first steps which Omas began almost a century ago, by elaborating the visual signs left by the Hellenic civilisation.

Numbered and certified edition of 572 pieces in solid silver. The number corresponds to the year of birth of one of the illustrious sons of  Samos, Pythagoras (572 AD).
14 models in solid rose gold with 14 diamonds on the clip. The number is the sum of the three figures, 5, 7 and 2.
7 models in solid rose gold with 14 diamonds on the clip and 1 diamond on the cap to reproduce the place of Samo and dedicated to the 7 sages whom Phytogoras belongs to.

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