What Waterman pens do you own?

[6pound]

My first foray into the fountain pen world began recently with the purchase of

 

Phileas Black gt

 

L'Etalon Blue Lacquer gt

 

 

-chomping at the bit for the next Waterman...

[jlepens]

vintage Junior lever filler

Phileas in blue medium nib

Hemisphere in black medium nib

Just got for Christmas a Carene Deluxe in blue with a medium nib.

[bluefinger]

My favorite: a 54 with an XF X-flex. And a LeMan 200.

 

And now: a #52 BCHR with very nice chasing and super crisp imprints/ medium semi flex nib.

 

More coming: will describe when it arrives!

 

 

You have a very classy signature! Did I see it on the Declaration of Independence? Really nice.

 

Regards,

Bluefinger

 

[Judybug]

Here's my list:

 

Several Phileases

An ivory Charleston

A Carene Islands Lagon

An Ideal 52 1/2 ringtop with a flexible nib (early 1900s era)

 

Guess which one is my favorite? --------- the little Ideal ringtop - what a pen! I'm waiting for a Waterman 52 from e-bay. I think I'm hooked on flex!

 

Judybug

[Nrepose]

1 Marble Blue Phileas Fine

1 Ivory Charleston Medium

1 Black Phileas rollerball

 

I think that Waterman makes an outstanding pen. Nr

[Mrsal]

i just got my first waterman pen last night. its a black philias, and i hope to own soon these pens:

waterman exception night and day black and gold fountain pen

waterman charleston black gold trim fountain pen

 

yours truly,

 

sal

[Dylan]

Hemisphere Stainless Steel Ball pen

Hemisphere Stainless Steel Pencil

Expert Red Rolllerball

Expert Red Pencil

Carene Charcoal Fountain Pen

Carene Charcoal Ball Pen

Carene Charcoal Pencil

Carene Silver Ball Pen

 

[GeorgeP]

L"etalon Gold

Preface Blue (on permanent loan to the wife)

Phileas Gray

Phileas Black

Phileas Blue

Expert II Green

Expert II Blue (bp)

[flyfish44]

I happen to live about 15 minutes from the former Waterman factory near Montreal, so there are a lot of Watermans in the flea markets, etc around here. The more unusual pens I have found are the 14P with the cap and blind cap in woodgrain and the barrel in bhr, and 32 1/2 ripple and 52 1/2 ripple (broken cap). My father in law, now 91, was married to the daughter of a Waterman Vice President who gave him a nice smooth black oversize 100 year pen, and he gave it to me. This week-end I picked up a 52 1/2 unchased black gold (plated) overlay in great condition and the 52 1/2 ripple.

[aloofy]

I have two Waterman pens but they are essentially almost the same : 1 graduate and 1 allure (lovely, pale metalic blue!)

They go 'cheaper' line of Waterman, but I found them charming. They show great quality compared to their price, and write flawlessly.

 

It is a pity that our distributors (I live in Korea, BTW) don't deal with cheaper line of Waterman pens. I'd never known that they make some less expensive pens(Kultur, Apostrophe, Graduate/Allure) before I visited Paris. At a stationery store in Paris I looked around to find a nice, affordable pen and spotted a shiny, crom-trimmed little pen. Later I found out that it is Waterman Graduate. Allure was a gift from my friend.

 

BTW I have no idea how should I pronounce 'Allure'.. whether in French way or in English way.

 

[Deirdre]

Once again I own a single Carene.

[GeeTee]

Carene Ocean Blue

Carene Deluxe blue (with a stub nib)

Le Man 100 Black

Le Man 100 Opera

Exception Slim line black.

 

[Doug Add]

I have owned a dozen or more Waterman pens over the past 12 years, from a ~1900 16 ED pen to a variety of moderns. Today I only have:

 

blue Phileas fountain pen

red Phileas foutain pen

blue Phileas rollerball

green Phileas rollerball

amber shimmer Carene rollerball

Edited February 9, 2009 by Doug Add

[georges zaslavsky]

I will list my present watermans and those who will be soon acquired:

 

man100s:

patrician in blue

patrician in green

revolution française

harlekin

opera

in fontainbleau wood (to be added in april)

 

expert first generation models:

one in dark green (to be added march)

one in vivid green ( to be added in march)

 

centurion:

in blue marbled lacquer

 

forum:

in blue navy and white

 

kulturs:

two green translucent demonstrators.

 

[publius]

One M-nib Phileas, green, which has been through a great deal with me.

[Diamondback]

My current Waterman collection is quite small:

 

#7 Red Ripple HR FP with Red nib

#7 Black Celluloid FP with Pink nib

Vintage Moss Agate Patrician FP & MP set

Green 100 Year FP (1st Year model)

Blue Sapphire Edson

Diamond Black Edson

 

Mark

[QM2]

may have replied on this thread before -- if so, think of this as an update

 

I still own very few Waterman pens.

 

2 vintage:

. 452 1/2 V Ringtop Filigree Silver Overlay, XXF nib

. 452 1/2 V Ringtop Solid Silver Overlay, flex nib

 

and 1 modern

. Carene, glossy black with Rhodium trim, F nib

 

In future, I would like to own a blue-green Ripple and some decent early overlays.

I don't care for modern Waterman, other than the fantastically designed Carene.

 

 

[FredRydr]

52 1/2 BCHR w/ gold band flex wonderful

54 Red HR flex nice

55 BCHR semiflex

55 Red HR F flex wonderful

56 BCHR wet noodle fantastic

No. 7 pink F flex fantastic

Ink Vue

100 year smooth red standard flex

100 year smooth red oversize flex

Commando semiflex

 

Most are out on loan. I'm a library like that! And two I just made gifts of.

 

Fred

Edited February 20, 2009 by FredRydr

[Chazzozz]

I received a gift of a stainless steel Hemisphere for Valentines. It's a Medium nib that took a bit of work to get smooth, but it's coming up nicely and is now a daily writer. I love the way the gold trim contrasts with the steel, very reminiscent of Parker Flighters.

[vans]

Oh no - I think I have acquired more than a dozen of those Kulturs in the last couple months - two Ms and the rest Fs. Seven with ink color-matched to pen, a couple for ink mixes, and a few put away for gifting ;-) Only one that I've written with has a scratchy unpleasant nib - the rest are nice and juicy and smooth. They're value-priced from that French ebay dealer and a total bargain as far as I'm concerned - even if one in ten is scratchy. I need to read up on what to do about that - I nearly bought a loupe at the LA pen show last week.

 

2 marbled green - 1 w/ Sherwood Green ink, 1 set aside.

2 clear red - Waterman Red and PR Black Cherry

1 clear orange - PR Orange Crush

1 sparkly dark blue - PR Tanzanite - I love this color!

2 clear light blue - PR Supershow Blue F and M

6 transparent - 3 inked, 3 set aside - Visconti Turquoise, PR Plum, Visconti Sepia

 

Oh, and a black lacquer Gentleman M that was a (very nice) gift back in the 90s, and which is a skipping, blobbing monstrosity no matter which ink I feed it. Having had no other FP experience, it put me off fountain pens for easily a decade, but I've recovered now.

Edited February 21, 2009 by vans