I really loved that Parker. It wasn't an outrageously expensive one, and it had the despised "student nib," which I happen to love because they're about as bombproof as it gets and wrote with more of a medium, flowing stroke than a really fine line. I really don't like fine point pens! It was brushed steel with a sterling band.
It had SOUL!
Ballpoint pens are, to me . . . *shudder*