Financial crises here, recessions there, but the show somehow must go on, and a limited-edition always adds a splash of luxury to an otherwise shattered complacency. Today, times of financial carelessness found an end, thus the product has to offer something special, like Caran d’Ache’s triumvirate of writing pens telling a story of a journey along the shores of Geneva’s beautiful Lac Léman and its precious witnesses. Only who can locate that fine mechanism can take part in that mysterious journey, and it already started with the platinum-coated Secret Journey I, which task is to hide a quotation of Voltaire, to be found whilst following the engraved cartographies. A 18-carat gold nib shows where to go through an engraved compass on each of the 300 finely crafted fountain pens completed with a black lacquer box depicting the Lausanne region – a truly trophy hunter’s task.