Montblanc Simplo GmbH

• Originally founded as the Simplo Filler Pen Company in 1906 in Hamburg Germany.
  
  
• The firm first began manufacturing barrels and caps for the French Rouge et Noir brand.
  
  
• The first Mont Blanc fountain pen was made in 1910. It is said that in a meeting of the founders, one of them looked at the new model with its white cap and remarked that it reminded him of a snow covered peak, thus the name Montblanc or white mountain was born.
  
  
• In 1913 the trade mark white star bacame the Company's logo. all pens from now on carry the while star on the cap.
  
  
• In 1924 the Meisterstück was introducted and is still in production today.
  
  
• By 1926 Montblanc is in 60 counties and is enjoying rapid growth.
  
  
• For the first time, in 1930, the nib of the Meisterstück is engraved with the number "4810", the elevation of Mont Blanc.
  
  
• A lifelong guarantee is proved on the Meisterstück in 1935.
  
  
• While the Montblanc factories are being rebuilt after the Worlf War II, the pens were manufactured in Denmark.
  
  
• The "60 Line" is introduced in 1955.
  
  
• The fountain pen makes a come back in the 1980s ant the first Montblanc Boutique is opened in Hong Kong in 1990.
  
  
• The first new brand since the Meisterstück, the Bohéme.
  

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