I stumbled upon the Wing Sung 659 about a week ago on eBay while browsing Chinese pens after an annoying customer call (retail therapy. yeaaaah.). I was surprised to see this pen, since it looks pretty similar to the Pilot 78G, but I figured that for $9 with free shipping it was worth trying. Exactly a week later, it’s here!

It arrived in a box with two nib/feed/collar units (one F and one EF) and a convertor. I love the look of ink sloshing around in demonstrators, so I picked up a tube of silicon grease and inked it as an eyedropper.

It seems to be an exact match with the Pilot 78G — including fitting Pilot nibs. The Fine Wing Sung nib (I haven’t tried the EF yet) is very smooth though — it writes a little wetter (perhaps because it’s eyedroppered) but similarly to my Medium Metro.

Overall, the build quality is good, but I did notice these two little bumps at the end of the section, but a couple swipes with a nail file smoothed things over! Now I don’t really see any remnants of cheaper manufacturing. (To be fair, I’m not looking very hard)

This was my first time “converting” a pen to an eyedropper, so I had a couple burps before realizing I needed to warm up the ink a bit with my hands. Since doing that, no more leaks! It’s definitely a wet writer, and on the wide side for a Fine, but great value (and neat looking) for $9, shipped.

Next up, I want to try the EF nib and fill it with a brighter more visually interesting color… But I’ll save that for another day.