Design 05 Touch Tip Squares Mint Green - Ballpoint

Jonah has never fully trusted a pen that feels disposable.

A proper pen should have a little weight to it. Not enough to announce itself, but enough to remind the hand that writing is still a physical act. Notes in margins, auction figures, serial numbers, small corrections made in pencil first and ink later — these things deserve more than whatever plastic instrument happened to be near the telephone.

The Otto Hutt Design 05 Touch Tip Ballpoint in Mint Green Squares is a compact, fully fledged writing instrument for daily use. It has a ballpoint mechanism with a screw cap, a replaceable touch tip for use with tablets and smartphones, and its own unique serial number.

Jonah would approve of the serial number.

Not because it makes the pen more important, exactly. More because it gives the object a quiet identity of its own. He once spent the better part of an evening trying to match three uncatalogued banknotes to a ledger entry using nothing but a half-faded pencil mark and what he insisted was “the character of the handwriting.” The pen he used that night was not this one, but he remembers it vividly because it failed him halfway through a note about a misdescribed florin.

He still brings it up.

Mint green is not an obvious colour for Jonah, which is precisely why it works. It has the look of an old ledger tab, a museum drawer label, or the faded green of a filing card that has survived three decades of careful neglect. The square finish gives it order without making it severe.

This high-quality gift box includes the Design 05 pen, a leather case, two replacement touch tips, one ballpoint refill, and a twelve-page instruction booklet.

Made in Germany from high-quality materials, the Design 05 is both practical and particular — a pocket-sized instrument for the collector who still writes things down, even when the tablet is sitting right there.

Because some notes should be typed.

But the important ones tend to begin by hand.