Camel Half-Size Mechanical Pencil
$8.00
Camel has been making pencils in Japan since 1948. This half-size mechanical pencil is the one worth carrying.
It fits the margin of a book, the spine of a notebook, a shirt pocket. Small enough to forget about until you need it; well-made enough to notice when you do. Among Japanese mechanical pencils, it occupies a category of its own: genuinely pocketable, genuinely precise, built by a maker who has spent over seventy years doing one thing well.
Three colors: yellow, natural wood, green. Pink eraser, metal ferrule.
4.5" L · Wood barrel · 0.5mm graphite · Made in Japan
These carefully chosen and crafted pieces represent a considered mix of the esoteric and the highly pragmatic. Many of these simple things reflect the hand of the artisan or the quiet genius of the inventor. They are useful in ways that are difficult to quantify but, if pressed, we would say they make life a little more efficient and a lot more beautiful.