What is your opinion of the quality of this item? This is a very unique chocolate brown pen, with caramel highlights within the resin and the ring around the pen. Nice weight and gauge for the pen, feels heavy within the hand and writes very smoothly. Very unique chocolate brown color with iridescent caramel highlights within the resin of the body and around the pen barrel. Very smooth and comfortable pen to write with. Yes, typical high quality, uniqueness of style of Montegrappa I rate it very highly