Still works when you get it going with heat or friction.  Light Fading of words Monte Carlo.  I collected pens years ago and my sisiter lived in France for 30 years, and she would bring me home pens.  She was luck to stay at this hotel and get a pen.  I never used it, just kept in my pen collection.  It is very heavy, not like plastic but not metal either.  Some sort of heavy resin.  Hard to find.