A collaboration on a global scale, the French luxury-goods maker Hermès has teamed up with the Australian industrial designer Marc Newson and the Japanese writing-instrument company Pilot to create the Hermès Nautilus pen. Though Hermès has created a number of desk accessories in the past, including stationery, leather mouse pads, and even a pencil, the Nautilus is the first pen from the 177-year-old brand.

The project began in 2009 with a meeting between Hermès’s artistic director, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, and…