Upgrade your ballpoints and biros to Parker’s Sonnet fountain pen and write with flair. The perfect companion at your desk, it has an elegant, refined style with a red lacquer finish.

Every great pen company has an iconic model. Parker’s Duofold, launched in 1921, is a perennial; the white star on the lid of the ‘power pen’ of the Eighties, Montblanc’s omnipresent ...

Annoyed by fountain pens that leaked, young Parker began to design his own. He founded the Parker Pen Company in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1888 at the age of 25 ...

He established the Parker Pen Company to manufacturer a superior writing instrument. ... The Slimfold fountain pens (left) were sold in 4 colours {black, blue, red and green).

Parker, which has manufactured fountain pens since 1888, claims a worldwide "resurgence" in the past five years, and rival Lamy says turnover increased by more than 5% in 2011.

Design: Fountain pens come in all sorts of designs to choose from. Whether you want a statement-making eye-popping colourway or a simple understated one, a fine or thicker nib, black or blue ink ...

A go-to brand for stationery lovers everywhere, Parker do not disappoint. The ergonomic shape provides the ultimate comfort, while the stainless-steel medium nib sets your intentions in stone. Buy now ...