The Conway Stewart Babbage edition is a spectacular celebration of the life and work of Charles Babbage. With a simple and straightforward cylindrical cap and barrel, the Babbage pays homage to the underlying structure of Babbage's work. Both the cap and barrel are covered in an intricate pattern of engine turned engraving in a concentric circular pattern. The result is at once simple and intricate, a perfect reflecti

The Conway Stewart Babbage edition is being made as a roller ball, an eminently practical choice for today's lover of fine writing instruments. Roller ball pens offer the luxurious feel of the fountain pen's liquid ink combined with the rugged practicality of the ball-point pen.

The Babbage is designed as a clipless pen crafted out of hallmarked sterling silver and is intended to be carried in a briefcase, organiser or handbag, and sized to fit the pen loops built into these.