Parker Urban (first version) in various finishes.jpeg

I am unusual on FPN, in that I rather like this, first, version of the Parker Urban - enough to have amassed examples of it in four finishes (so far).

Top-to-bottom they are:

’Chiselled Ebony’ - ‘M’ nib;

’London Cab Black’ - the glossy-black lacquer, not the matte-black - ‘F’ nib;

’Brushed Chrome’ - finish applied over brass - ‘F’ nib;

’Navy Blue’ - ‘M’ nib.

All of mine have chrome trim, because I far prefer its appearance to that of gold trim.

They are, like all Parker pens made after 1993, cartridge-converter pens.

Nibs are all steel, and they were available in ‘F’ or ‘M’ only.

They have the same nib that can be found in the Parker 15/Jotter, Vector, and first-version ‘IM’. It is very much a ‘nail’.
One of these pens came to me with a nib that somebody had ‘sprung’, and whose tines I could not get back together, so I had to buy a replacement nib-&-grip-section.

I also have another one in the ‘Chiselled Ebony’ finish (with a ‘F’ nib). I ‘managed to’ bend the clip on that pen at its ‘elbow’, and cannot bend it back in to the correct shape. A reputable repairer told me that the cap on these pens can not be disassembled, so I have had to buy another whole pen 

In 2016 a new version of this pen was launched, along with a new model of the ‘IM’.
The post-2016 Urban & ‘IM’ share more components than do their pre-2016 versions.

I don’t own any of the newer ones, because they do not have the extravagant curves of this model, which is the feature that made it attractive to me in the first place.

These pens do not ‘post’ well, because the cap is fairly hefty, and so posting it so makes the pen feel rather unbalanced.

If you wish to post the cap of one of these, you need to know that I posted the cap of the ‘Navy Blue’ one so often that I have worn away a small patch of the lacquer on the barrel, and one can now see the brass beneath it.