Fully Restored Olympia SM2 Typewriter | Rare Factory Matte Black Finish & Brand-New Platen

📖 Product Overview: West German Precision Engineering

Presenting the legendary Olympia SM2—a masterclass in mid-century West German manufacturing. Celebrated by novelists, journalists, and collectors for its indestructible build quality and snappy, precise key movement, the SM2 offers the quintessential heavy-duty typing experience in a clean, streamlined design.

This specific unit features a striking, original Matte Black frame beautifully paired with dark, tactile keytops. Meticulously overhauled for 8 to 10 hours at our specialized UK workshop and upgraded with a brand-new, freshly recovered rubber platen roller (£150 value), this robust writing machine is built to inspire daily creative writing sessions for generations to come.

📊 Technical Specifications & Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Olympia SM2

• Origin: Made in Western Germany (celebrated for peerless mechanical alignment and craftsmanship)

• Keyboard Layout: Standard QWERTY Layout

• Color Scheme: Original factory textured Matte Black body with dark, crisp keytops

• Mechanical Condition: 100% Fully Functional. Completely serviced, aligned, deep-flushed, and stress-tested for fluid key action and dependable performance.

Our Rigorous Workshop Restoration Upgrades:

• Brand-New Fitted Platen Rubber (£150 Value): The original 1950s rubber roller was aged and hardened. We fully stripped and upgraded it with a brand-new recovered rubber platen layer, ensuring whisper-quiet key impacts, modern paper feed friction, and crisp print impressions.

• Precision Mechanism Tune-Up: Deep-flushed, chemically cleaned, and stabilized with new internal washers applied throughout the chassis to enhance structural longevity and dampen vibration.

• Fresh Dual-Color Ribbon Installed: Pre-installed with a brand-new, premium 10-meter GR1 (Group 1) black and red ink ribbon. (Workshop note: Because fresh ribbons are richly inked, the red selector sharpens into extra clean lines after an initial break-in period).

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Case Variant

• Cosmetic Presentation: The original metal frame remains in  very good vintage condition, exhibiting authentic age-related surface marks that reflect its genuine history (primarily on corners and edges).

• Keytops: Clean, dark keytops that feel exceptionally smooth under the fingers with clear legend contrast.

• Carrying case is included with this listing. , showing age marks and usage. On the inside and outside, please check related photos. 

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: Clean, crisp Elite Typeface, offering brilliant legibility and compact text density.

• Font Pitch: 11 Characters Per Inch (11 CPI), making it exceptionally versatile for creative manuscripts, poetry, daily journaling, and letters.

📋 Quick Specifications Overview

🌍 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, Canada & 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 and remote destinations).

• 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 protect this post-war British classic during international transit, we mechanically lock down the carriage rail, insulate the frame in multi-layered shock-absorbing cushioning, and suspend the entire unit within a heavy-duty, double-walled shipping box.

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

• Unbox & Start Writing: Your Imperial Good Companion arrives pre-installed with your fresh purple 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 Imperial typewriter.

• 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.

📖 Have questions about Brother typewriters or machine maintenance? Read our master guide: Typewriter FAQ: The Ultimate 100 Questions Answered

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