Onoto The Doctors Pen

The Onoto Doctor’s Fountain Pen is redolent of everything that the country doctor would wish to be – when doctors were “doctors”, rather than “GPs”, and had time to do afternoon bedside visits around their practice with the large leather bag that contained everything from a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer to a packet of aspirins.

The Doctor’s pen is made by Onoto in the spirit of such times. It is based on the original Onoto Magna, first produced in 1937 but originating in a design for a “safety” self-filling fountain pen first patented by George Sweetser in 1905. Like all the up-to-date Onoto Magna Classics, though, the Onoto The Doctors Pen is a cartridge converter rather than a piston-filler.

The cap and body of the Onoto Doctor’s Pen is made of a durable acrylic resin, in this case in a beautiful deep claret red, with sterling silver accompaniments consisting of the cap finial, clip and triple rings, and the barrel finial button. The cap finial features Onoto’s trademark cipher, repeated on the clip with their characteristic chevron pattern.

The Onoto The Doctors Pen – as with all Onoto pens – features the “Made in England” and “ONOTO the PEN” engraving on the barrel, but what marks this pen as unique in the Magna Classic range are that the centre of the three cap rings is gold plated and, most notably, that the clip has a golden serpent wound around it, in homage to the rod of Asclepius, the founder of medicine.

The nib fitted to the Onoto The Doctor’s pen is their number 7, is available in 18 carat gold, in Fine, Medium, or Broad, but if you choose “Modified Nib“, then Onoto will hand-make you almost any imaginable nib, though not one that is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. Write Here will contact you if you choose the modified nib option to determine your requirements.

This pen can also be supplied with a rollerball conversion kit in acrylic resin and silver. This is in addition to the fountain pen nib, allowing to change your pen to a rollerball simply by unscrewing one tip from the barrel (as you would to replace the cartridge) and screwing in the other. NOTE that this option is not compatible with the extra weight option, so please do not choose both in the options list.

This is, truly, a magnificently luxurious writing instrument with which to make out a prescription! We at Write Here are pleased to make the Onoto The Doctor’s Pen available for sale online, to doctors everywhere

Please note that the Onoto Doctor’s pen does not include a thermometer.

This pen is one of a limited edition of only 100.