Ah yes, the foretold Destroyer of Leads!

I've got the aluminum version. I absolutely could not resist the gadget factor. I almost exclusively write with a fountain pen and don't have much use for a pencil, so that decision may have been questionable but I still stand by it.

I had the realisation that I write a decent bit for school. And I'm not at my parents' mercy for pencils anymore, used the previous one for about 6 years. So why not buy something a bit fancier?

Had a Pentel Click before. The threads holding the tip in somehow broke, after only 6 years of use.

I do miss the Twisterase eraer though. This tiny one pretty much unusable

I have a "Dive" and it's the best mechanical pencil I've ever used. (And I've used a huge number of them.) If they can ever get the price down to something reasonable it will take over the world.

Not OP but writing/stationary nerd. The normal kuru toga is about $9 (USD) up to $15 for limited edition ones like the Studio Ghibli collab pen or with a metal grip but plastic body. The metal is $30-50. There's a super fancy one with extra features like auto extending lead and where you can set desired lead length. That's like $80.

I wouldn't consider 8€ very expensive for something I use daily and it'll last me as long as I can manage to not lose it.

oh I've seen it's mechanism on YouTube. it has a toothed gear that rotates with every press. so every stroke of the pencil rotates it a little.

Ha! Did not know the Uniball pen was made by Mitsubishi! These have been my go to for quite awhile now. I’ll even start writing with something else and stop to go find one of these instead. You can purchase multiple ink colours, gel and even waterproof ink. But to loop back to the pencil, nice!