Montblanc changed its sales strategy in 2012 and opened its own online shop on the company website; until then sales had run exclusively through boutiques and authorised specialist dealers. The range remained narrow at first and consisted mainly of current series and Special Editions, while current Limited Editions were reserved for the shops.
At the same time, the corporate and business-customer pages still showed versions that had long since been discontinued, such as the Meisterstück 149 with the older nib whose centre was fully platinum-plated, or the Meisterstück 144, which was already out of production. Illustrations on a maker's own pages are therefore of only limited use as evidence of which version was genuinely available at a given date.