Fully Restored Olympia Splendid 99 Ultra-Portable Typewriter | Rare Original Factory Paint & Brand-New Platen

📖 Product Overview: A Masterpiece of West German Engineering

Meet the Olympia Splendid 99—a robust, ultra-low profile classic freshly restored and glowing in its exceptionally rare original factory paint finish. Crafted with legendary West German precision, the Splendid 99 isn’t just built to look impressive; it is engineered to deliver world-class performance.

This is personally one of my absolute favorite ultra-portable typewriters ever manufactured. Meticulously overhauled for 4 to 6 hours at our specialized UK workshop, this stunning machine merges lightweight mobility with a heavy-duty typing feel. Enhanced with a brand-new recovered platen, this museum-grade writing instrument is built to go the distance for novelists, journalists, and serious collectors alike.

📊 Technical Specifications & Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Olympia Splendid 99 (Ultra-Portable).

• Origin: Made in Western Germany (famed for unrivaled mechanical durability).

• Keyboard Layout: Standard QWERTY Layout (intuitive and ready for modern Western usage).

• Mechanical Condition: 100% Fully Functional. Every internal component has been checked, calibrated, and tuned so that typing is fluid, snappy, and completely dependable.

• Our Rigorous Workshop Restoration Upgrades:

  • Deep-Flush Chemical Clean: Internally and externally stripped of 60 years of dried oil and dust, leaving the mechanism completely clear and responsive.

  • Brand-New Fitted Platen Rubber: Features a freshly recovered rubber platen roller (a £150 value). We invested heavily in this machine because it deserved a brand-new rubber layer, ensuring excellent paper feed friction, quiet keystrokes, and perfect ink impressions for decades to come.

  • Vibrant Fresh Ribbon: Pre-installed with a brand-new, premium 10-meter GR1 (Group 1) black and red ink ribbon. Looks smudgy on red but gets better after using. 

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Original Accessories

• Cosmetic Presentation: A spectacular visual example. The striking original factory paint finish is exceptionally rare in this color. The outer frame shows only minor, authentic marks on the corners, but it remains in excellent condition compared to almost any other example we have worked on. The off-white keys are thoroughly cleaned, polished, and bright.

• Original Carrying Case: Included in good, authentic condition. Excellent Zip. Minor age marks. 

• Bonus Ephemera: Comes complete with its original manual preserving its immense historical and collectible value.

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: Classic Elite Typeface—offering a sharp, clean, and highly sophisticated mid-century print style.

• Font Pitch: Approximately 11 Characters Per Inch (11 CPI / Elite size), providing beautiful text density that is absolutely legible and perfect for prose, creative manuscript writing, or daily journaling.

🌍 Global Shipping, Timelines & Tariff Information

• 🇺🇸 United States & 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Shipping (100% Free & All-Inclusive): Standard local & international shipping to the US and UK is completely free and included in the listed price. Furthermore, all US import tariffs and customs duties are fully prepaid by our workshop. There are absolutely zero hidden checkout fees, surprise border holds, or cash-on-delivery demands at your door.

• 🌐 International Shipping (Europe, Australia, Singapore & Rest of World): We dispatch all website orders in less than 24 hours. We offer flexible, fully tracked premium shipping options calculated at checkout:

  • Standard International Delivery: Safely delivered via premium air courier directly to your doorstep in 3 to 7 working days (with prompt EU dispatch and highly competitive rates to Australia, Asia, and remote global locales).

  • Express International Delivery Upgrade: Arrives at your door in just 1 to 3 working days for a small additional fee.

• Proprietary Global Packaging Protocol: To ensure this rare Olympia survives air transit perfectly, we mechanically lock the carriage, wrap the entire frame in thick shock-absorbing cushioning, and suspend it securely inside a heavy-duty, double-walled outer shipping carton.

🤝 The "Ready-to-Write" Package & Lifetime Support

• Unbox & Start Writing: Your Olympia Splendid 99 arrives pre-installed with a fresh ink ribbon and our primary step-by-step startup instructions designed by our workshop team. Simply unbox, release the carriage lock, and begin typing immediately.

• Video Learning Academy: Your package includes a direct link to our dedicated YouTube video tutorial, teaching you exactly how to type on, care for, adjust the margins, and change ink ribbons on your specific Olympia model.

• Lifetime Technical Partnership: Your relationship with our workshop does not end at delivery. Every typewriter we sell comes with lifetime technical support. You receive direct email and video-call troubleshooting access to Walid and Joujou, the celebrated restoration experts from the BBC's The Repair Shop and major Netflix productions.

🎬 We prepared a video on how to use this Typewriter on YouTube. Link below.