KOH-I-Noor Rapidomatic Mechanical Pencil, .5mm Lead, White, 1 Each (5635)

Nice pencil. The pencil feels good in my hand and balanced good. The brand kohinoor is always durable and never has function issues. This is a replacement to the original I had since 1987 and still worked fine with daily use until I lost it or someone accidently picked it up. The pencil feels pretty much like the original , but seems slightly lighter. For as long as the pencil last its an exceptional value and never has jammed at all and are very durable.

The best mechanical pencil I have ever used, I ‘have used my first pencil for nearly 8 years now. I just got a second one for a back up. Very happy with my new pencil.

I had an exact style and color from this brand 36 years ago and this is the best product ever

An engineer I worked with years ago loaned me a pencil during a meeting, a rapidomatic. I'd always considered mechanical pencils to be cheap and flimsy, even though I liked using pencils for note-taking and sketching, it seemed like I was doomed to pens. I now have at least one rapidomatic that's over 10 years old, and the only reason I ever have to buy new ones is if I lose one (or loan it to some sticky-fingered colleague who immediately falls in love with it). They're available in .3, .5, .7, and .9mm (maybe bigger, haven't seen any). The smaller sizes are definitely at home on a drafting bench where a narrow, fine line can be drawn on a very level surface. I am not a draftsperson, and sometimes I have to jot down notes on a pad that's sitting on whatever's handy - anything thinner than a .9 is going to break frequently in such use. The one plus/minus of this pencil is the rather pointed tip - ideal for its original use against a straightedge or other guide. I've never broken one, but I have scratched some things I've thoughtlessly tossed in a backpack with it. It's solid metal with angular edges, so... But on the plus side, the narrow tip often comes in handy when you need something to hit that tiny reset switch on some device or other, or just need a narrow-but-not-sharp tool to fix/dislodge something. I've tried a couple other similar brands, but the rapidomatic is my favorite for the way I can grip it without excessive effort, it's sturdiness, and the fact that it has a generous sized place to store refills, plus an eraser and a small tool to clear broken leads, under the silver cap.

This is for the 0.7mm version. No protective plastic sleeve or wrap, just by itself in the large packaging cardboard box. The seller doesn't seem to care about the condition this item is in as it was scratched up from the free floating ride to delivery. It's effectively the same as a Rotring 500 with slightly less quality. I recommend going for the Rapidomatic 0.3 or 0.9 as Rotring no longer offers those sizes. Overall lower quality than the vintage ones that had a full metal tube chassis and closed eraser cap. Vintage 0.5mm (white) in the photos for comparison. I recommend the Rotring 500 over this one in 0.7mm. Similar price point, but better service and quality.

Excellent mechanical pencil. I bought this exact same item almost 50 years ago when I was in art school. Lead is held firmly in place and extends by pushing down on the top tip. Quality doesn’t go out of style and changing a design is not always necessary. I would recommend this and buy it over and over again.

This is my main art pencil. The weight and feel is really good.

I really like this pencil, it's got fantastic heft to it and the end of the barrel is so stiff and doesn't bend. I wish that I could buy these in bulk instead of individually.

I lost one I've been using for 20 years, so glad to see they're still made and almost exactly the same. The knurling on the finger grip part seems a bit finer than the old one, but still feels good. Too bad mine was missing the "needle" inserted into the eraser which is useful for clearing broken leads out of the tip. Not sure if that is an "improvement" or mine was just incomplete.

This is a re-issue of a classic mechanical pencil from ca. 1984. It's a solid pencil with good balance and no noticeable lead wobble. It says "JAPAN" on the clip. The body of the pencil is plastic, though the grip and various other parts are metal. The external design has roots in other Koh-I-Noor pencil lines and can currently still be seen in the almost-identical Rotring 500, the metal-bodied Rotring 600, etc., and now also in the Chinese Rotring knock-off called the Redcircle 600. (I haven't tried the Rotrings, which are reportedly good pencils, but the Redcircle is, in my experience, an inferior product with noticeable lead wobble. It's also too heavy for my taste.) The Koh-I-Noor brand originates from a company that had split into at least two parts by the time of the pencil's introduction, and whose parts have since changed hands over time. This pencil is apparently a product of Koh-I-Noor North America (or USA), which split off from the Czech company of the same name around the time of WWII, and was long affiliated with Rotring but is currently separately held by Chartpak in the US. The similarity in Rotring's pencil designs is presumably due to the fact that the right to use the Koh-I-Noor design was acquired by Rotring along with their acquisition of the/a non-Czech-held part of Koh-I-Noor in or about 1985. Rotring was later acquired by Sanford, which was itself acquired by Newell, and then Koh-I-Noor North America was sold off. The "about" section of the Koh-I-Noor North America website says that the company has now "partnered once again with Koh-I-Noor Europe", which is presumably some sort of reciprocal licensing agreement. (As for the Redcircle copy of the Rotring design, that's clearly just trademark infringement.)

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Excelente lapiseira!!

I was glad to see the Rapidomatic mechanical pencil reissued; it's a favorite for sketching and doodling. The Rapidomatic has a enough weight to feel substantial, clicks out lead smoothly, and is my preferred model of mechanical pencils.