Grenade Pen

Three clicks to arm, four seconds to go.

The Grenade Pen is a Q Branch gadget from the Bond film GoldenEye: a Parker Jotter ballpoint pen that contains a class-four grenade.

Quick Facts

Film: GoldenEye
Disguise: Parker Jotter ballpoint pen
Mechanism: Three clicks arm a four-second fuse; three more disarm it
Affiliation: MI6; Q Branch

Lore & Background

In GoldenEye, Q Branch hides a class-four grenade inside a Parker Jotter ballpoint pen. Three clicks in succession arm a four-second fuse, and another three clicks disarm it. Bond uses it to escape his captors after Boris nervously clicks it.

Reader's Guide

The pen works by clicking: three clicks in succession arm it with a four-second fuse and three more disarm it. Its moment in GoldenEye comes when Boris nervously clicks it, and Bond uses it to escape his captors. It is a film gadget from Q Branch rather than one from Ian Fleming's novels.