I sometimes describe a pen as one that 'makes a statement', usually large and impressive pens or something quite quirky.
A friend recently sent me a photograph of the ultimate pen in this respect, and it was, most certainly, making a statement.
Here is Lek Walesa signing the Gdansk agreement with a giant ballpoint pen decorated with a picture of the newly elected Pope John Paul ll, (Karol Wojtyla, former archbishop of Krakow)
It, no doubt, was a statement! After the fall of communism ten years later Lek was elected president of Poland and won a Nobel Peace Prize, a true working class hero.