Aurora is the only Italian brand that produces its own nibs and parts, all assembled in its own pen factory, and has become one of the top 10 family businesses in Italy by producing writing instruments alone. It treats fountain pens with the attitude of creating handmade gemstones, not only the barrel is excellent, but the modeling design and gold manufacturing technology are world-class, although it is difficult to compete with Japanese fountain pens in terms of nib attainment, but it is not far behind compared with the German system, so although the price of Aurora is not low, it is also considered to be worth the money.
 
In 1919, Aurora was a typical representative of "blue is better than blue", and in the early days of its birth, it was modeled on the tough Widvan fountain pen to produce fountain pens with better materials, finer quality, and lower prices, which were popular in the Italian market. By the 30s, the streamlined style was popular in the international market, and Aurora designed its own model and produced a tapered fountain pen that had never appeared before, which shook the market at the same time, but also washed away the history of Aurora's "borrowing", and the product rapidly expanded into Spain, France and even Latin America.
 
Since then, Aurora has been on the road to creating a new model, and in addition to designing the shape, it has also paid special attention to the grip of the pen. The thickness and length of the pen grip are accurate, the size and weight of the pen body are appropriate, and the light resin barrel is very suitable for high-intensity writing. Despite the prowess of the pen, the lack of a two-tone tip has always been a headache for Aurora fans, even in limited editions.
 
Removing a very small number of diamond-encrusted luxury goods, the price of Aurora's mass production fountain pens is mainly distributed in the range of 100 and 1,000 yuan, but the 100 yuan products are all matched with steel tips, with different shapes but no outstanding points, and it is not recommended. The B11/B14 model has Aurora's characteristic checkered gold and silver pen cap, less than 2000 yuan can also buy a 925 silver pen barrel style, suitable for gifts, 14K nib writing smooth, daily use is also available.
 
But if you want to deeply appreciate the charm of Aurora, you have to rely on the 88 series. The current 88 uses a torpedo pen body, with two thicknesses of the 800 series and 810 series, and the thicker 800 series is matched with piston inking, and the smoothness is only ranked after Pelik. Its hard-bodied writing is well received abroad, the nib is thinner in Europe and the United States, and the damping is slightly larger than Montblanc, and the limited edition 88 Sole won the Best Writing Experience Award at the Pen World Magazine 2017 Readers' Choice Awards.
 
Celluloid lovers can also opt for the Optima collection, which replaces unstable traditional celluloid with a similarly textured Auroloide resin that looks the same as it was from the '30s. Using this material, the Optima series has launched a limited edition of five continents, with a color matching to restore the local water and soil style, limited to 7,500 pieces, and sold for 5,340 yuan.
 
However, Aurora's backup ink storage technology is controversial in the pen circle, the piston pen will store a small part of the ink between the soft plug of the piston and the inner wall of the pen body when inking, and you can write another 3 to 4 pages after using up the ink in the tube, this practice is to increase the ink storage capacity, but it also leads to cleaning trouble, and it is not necessary for some people who like to change ink.