I love retractable fountain pens. So when I found that Platinum had one I had to give it a try, and I’m glad I did. Overall experience is this is a pretty decent pen, it feels good in hand, and it writes very well. I also got this pen for about half the price of the Pilot Capless. I’m hoping this pen does well as an every day carry. Right now I’ve been using my Lamy Safari for that, but having a retractable that’s both high quality and relatively inexpensive I think might bump my Safari out of that position. The ink also seems to be pretty solid. it’s a good looking blue/black. Though I did read that the ink is on the acidic side.
My Curidas dries out faster than my Vanishing Point or my Majohn A1. I think the plastic trap door sometimes doesn’t close fully, which I think is a design flaw. Too bad, because the EF nib is really great.
I have no idea what sort of testing they did to come up with this 6 month number, but I would love to know. It’s like they didn’t actually test the production version or something.