Platinum

The headline engineering feature is the slip-and-seal inner cap on the 3776 Century: a sprung double-seal that keeps a filled pen wet for up to a year of disuse. No other major maker offers anything equivalent, and once you’ve owned one, the question of whether your travel pen has dried out simply stops occurring to you. The 3776 runs in fine through broad and the soft-fine SF grade; the President is the flagship for those who want a bigger nib without leaving the Platinum house style. They also make the Preppy, an unironic ten-dollar pen that writes better than most pens four times its price.