Mint Condition Olympia Splendid 99 Ultra-Portable Typewriter | Large & Clear PICA Typeface | Brand-New Platen, Leather-Like Case & Original Manual

📖 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 specific machine is an absolute mint-condition example—impeccably preserved and performing as smoothly as the day it left the factory. Meticulously overhauled for 4 to 6 hours at our specialized UK workshop and 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).

• Condition Status: Mint Condition. An immaculate, highly preserved visual and mechanical example.

• 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 dried oil and dust, leaving the mechanism completely clear and responsive.

• Brand-New Fitted Platen Rubber (£150 Value): Features a freshly recovered rubber platen roller. 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.

• Fresh Ribbon Installed: Pre-installed with a brand-new, premium 10-meter Group 1 (GR1) fabric ribbon for dark, bold type.

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: Large & Clear PICA Typeface—offering bold contrast, exceptional character definition, and timeless mid-century aesthetic clarity.

• Font Pitch: 10 Characters Per Inch (10 CPI / PICA Scale)—delivering a spacious, beautifully balanced layout that is effortlessly legible and perfect for prose, manuscripts, or daily journaling.

🎨 Cosmetic Presentation & Premium Accessories

• Cosmetic Presentation: Mint condition throughout. The striking original factory paint finish is exceptionally rare, vibrant, and clean, paired with pristine off-white keycaps.

• Leather-Like Carrying Case: Includes its authentic original leather-like case in outstanding condition with an excellent, smooth zipper for sleek, secure protection.

• Original Manual: Comes complete with its authentic, original factory instruction manual, preserving its immense historical and collectible value.

📋 Quick Specifications Overview

🛡️ Peace of Mind & Workshop Mechanical Guarantee

✅ 1-Year Mechanical Guarantee | ✅ 14-Day Returns | ✅ Lifetime Aftercare | ✅ Featured on BBC's The Repair Shop

Every typewriter leaving our workshop represents the highest standard of vintage mechanical conservation. To ensure complete confidence in your investment, your typewriter is backed by our Comprehensive 1-Year Mechanical Guarantee, covering all internal mechanisms, segment linkages, and moving parts. Each machine is logged in our digital workshop registry under its unique serial number for full traceability and long-term support. Please read our dedicated workshop guarantee page on our website for complete details and peace of mind.

🌍 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 via fully tracked premium air courier directly to your doorstep in 3 to 7 working days (with prompt EU dispatch and express shipping options available at checkout).

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: 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 BBC's The Repair Shop and major Netflix productions.

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

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