The tools pens from Monteverde have been improved over time. The current version is an aluminum body, shaped like a No.2 pencil, with measuring guides for inches, centimeters, and millimeters down three sides. One end is a mechanical pencil or ballpoint pen or fountain pen, while the other is a touch-screen stylus. There is a metal clip and one side of the body has a bubble level. If you pull out the stylus end, you find a tiny socket-fit screw drive with a flat head on one side and cross point on the opposite side of the socket.
There are black, silver, gold, blue, yellow and red versions of these pens, then there is my favorite, the Safety Orange. There is an aluminum cap that screws on the cover the pen/pencil end. You refill the device by pulling out the pen/pencil portion from the body.
My preference is the fountain pen, and the medium nib writes well and smoothly with my Edelstein Tanzanite ink. However, the mechanical pencil is likely a big seller, because then you could actually use it to mark wood for cutting or walls for drilling. I guess that means I need another one. Possibly yellow, like a real pencil, or red like my carpenters’ pencil.
I wonder if there is a practical purpose for making a fountain pen version of the tool pen? Or is it just a marketing ploy to cash in on the compulsive fountain pen buyer market?