The fountain pen is genuine; the components are original Montblanc parts: cap and reservoir come from the 144 in Bordeaux; the front part from a black model of the same caliber (Classique). Bordeaux 144s were until June 1992 delivered by Montblanc basically with a black grip section and fitted with a single-colour gold nib; only from 1992 with the Solitaire Doué series were Bordeaux grip sections with bicolour nib uniformly fitted. The supplied gift packaging, however, comes from the 90s and originally belonged to the Generation and Noblesse Oblige series; it is therefore not necessarily original to the piece.