There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
These two inks do not sheen wildly like like some other Sailor made inks do, but they are vibrant and shade incredibly well. For sheening sailor inks: Vibrant Blue get: Sailor Souten, for a cool dusty-bright Blue with tons of gorgeous sheen get: Maruzen Eternal Blue and a nice dusty sheeninggreen get Sailor Epinard or Tokiwa Matsu.
While led I didn’t get other B.B. inks in this drop I do have most of their other inks and. They are all amazing in their own right, but Sapphire, Emerald, 4B and L’Amant are truly irreplaceable.
KWZ and Akkerman/Diamine also makes decent almost comparable inks and Pilot Iroshizuku make nice inks but none truly comparable to the aforementioned Sailor inks. Organic Studios sheening inks smudge everywhere to the point they are not useable other than for novelty. I own all of these and find my pens still have Sailor made inks 90% of the time. Worth the hype and price? Yes. I’m very glad I was able to get in on this drop.