SPEND: Montblanc’s New Serpentine Watch Is Crazy Good-Looking

At a dramatic dinner at the Rainbow Room in New York City this month, Montblanc celebrated its 110th anniversary surrounded by luminaries such as Hugh Jackman, Kate Bosworth, Charlotte Casiraghi, and Matthew Morrison.

The brand revealed a number of wonders, perhaps most notably a $1.37 million pen, which was paraded slowly around the ballroom by a model in a ballgown who carried it on a soft, red pillow. That pen, the Ultimate Serpent Limited Edition 1, was emblazoned with 15.34 carats of dark blue sapphires and wrapped with a hand-engraved rose gold serpent, which itself featured 153 embedded, individually cut diamonds. A big 6-carat diamond in the shape of the Montblanc star logo sits on the crown of the cap. (Put your checkbooks away; it was one of a kind and someone had already bought it.)