xdzcThe answer to your question is largely based on what types of pens you use on a day to day basis. I wouldn't use the word "heavy" so much as "weighty" to describe the Stainless Steel Pen. If you normally use plastic bodied pens, you might say the pen is heavy, but if you use fountain pens or other machined pens regularly, then this pen won't feel particularly heavy at all. Whatever weight it does have is well balanced, so that the writing experience is quite effortless.