Aurora Ancient Maps Ptolemy Fountain Pen

Aurora celebrates with a new Limited Edition Collection the Ancient Maps that have allowed Man to discover Uncharted Lands.

An Ancient Map reveals not only the hope of discovery, the passion for exploration, but also denotes how the world was outlined and revealed, up to what we know today.

Our journey through the ancient maps begins in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, once home to the grandiose Library where approximately in 150 A.D. The geographer Claudius Ptolemy drew the first geographical map of the then known world, making use of a network of geometric lines, corresponding to latitude and longitude.

When Ptolemy's work first appeared in Europe, it revolutionised continental cartography. The traditional arrangement of medieval maps with the east at the top (from which the term orientation derives) was replaced by the north-south axis, to which was added the modern cartographic grid still in use today.

Blue mottled Auroloid fountain pen with rhodium-plated 18 kt solid gold nib . 925‰ solid silver finishes.

Special armillary head and compass rose caseback in 925‰ solid silver.

Limited and numbered edition of only 680 pieces.