What Waterman pens do you own?

[satrap]

I found a perfect, unused Lady Agathe at an antique mall for $35. I brought her home and got cartridges, but haven't tried her yet. I'm afraid she's like owning a ballgown, very pretty, but not suited for everyday use.

 

Deb

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Hi Deb,

 

I think that Lady Agathe is a tough old gal, kinda like her brothers, the LeMan 100 and 200. She is more Annie Oakley that prima donna, I'm sure!

Enjoy

[sallywally]

Pictured is my actual vintage collection. I own also some modern ones: Expert 1, Expert 2, Phileas and a Kultur.

 

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52RHR, 52BCHR, 12PSF, 52BCHR, 12PSF, 52BCHR, 52 1/2V BCHR, 52 1/2V RHR, 52VRHR, 52V woodgrain, 94, 32, 92V, Junior, 513NM, French W, 14ED, Skywriter, W5, Crusader.

I just bought a 52 RHR with an accountant nib, said to be among the finest points ever made, but it's not writing especially fine. Have you ever used this nib?

[Tom Heath]

Hi I'm new to this forum but a 20 year accumulator I love my Watermans

1. Nice BLK SMOOTH HARD RUBBER #20

2. Red Ripple 58

3. 6 Patricians

4. A few Metal overlays 52's

5. a recently Solid Gold Taperite Set

6. A Moss AGate 94 Set

Nothing quite like the vintage pens

 

Good hunting to All

Tom Heath

[dboulonnais]

I have lot of Waterman FP

- 1 blue Edson

1 Blue Carene deluxe

Man 100 Opera

Man 100 Arlequin

Man 100 Bicentenaire

Man 100 classic black

Man 100 guilloché sterling silver

Man 100 sterling silver/black

Man 100 wood Macassar

Man 100 PAtrician Blue

MAn 100 Patricien Green

Man 200 Night and Day silver

MAn 200 Red cordovan

Man 200 classic black

Man 200 Rhapsody mineral blue

1 DG gold plated with red laqued

 

 

I have 23 CF Fountain pen

 

1 "granité" gold plated yellow bib

1 chainette gold plated yellow nib

1 laqued black with yellow gold nib

1 laqued blue white nib

1 laqued turtoise with yellow gold nib

1 crocodile silver sterling with with white gold nib

1 crocodile gold plated with yellow gold nib

1 gold white plated guilloché with white-yellow gold nib

1 guilloché sterling silver white nib

1 sterling silver fougere white nib

1 glod plated fougere yellow nib

1 silver plated chevron (basket) with white gold nib

1 gold plated Sheraton with yellow gold nib

1 grey gold plated Sheraton, grey nib

1 chromed moired with white gold nib

1 gold plated moired with yellow gold nib

1 gold plated barleycorn with yellow nib

1 silver sterling barleycorn with white nib

1 gold plated milleraies with yellow gold nib

1 grey gold plated milleraies grey nib

1 silver plated milleraies with white gold nib

1 brushed stainless steel with gold plated ends and clip with white gold nib

1 chromed/ brushed stainless steel/ gold with white and yellow gold nib

And I have stocked 1 white gold nib and 1 yellow gold nib

All my CF are in mint conditions, the nib are all like new nib

 

I'm still looking for some rare CF (le chainette white I think It is in steel, and rarest with Flowers pattern that I saw one time)

 

[psycho pen]

i own this one, but i don't know what model is...can anybody halp me??

[FredRydr]

I'm afraid I'm finding it more and more difficult to keep updating my list!

 

Fred

[RoyalBlue]

A strange skinny Waterman with a gold medium nib and a funky corrugated finger rest.

I have a green skinny Waterman as above but I don't know what it's called. Any ideas? I've just bought a Waterman Carene, marine amber, but I'm not allowed to use it until my birthday.

 

I asked this about a year ago and it's probably a Laureat. Check on Google images. I never knew what it was called at the time but it's about the only pen I've ever knowingly lost at work and I was gutted.

 

That is till (now I am back on thread!) I bought a green Le Man 200 Rhapsody (NOS) with M nib last year. It will be a gorgeous writer once the skipping is cured in the next week or two.

 

HTH,

Tom

[PenEngineer]

I have only one Waterman. It is a black Phileas with a medium nib. It was my first fountain pen I bought. When I was in Rome, Italy a few weeks ago, I happened upon a very nice and small pen store that sold mostly new fountain pens, but they had a few vintage restored ones as well. They had a Waterman Ripple in a display cabinet with such a nice flex nib on it! Sadly, as I am still in high school I don't have a lot of money and I think it was 240 Euro The salesman wasn't clear about the price as he was Italian and I couldn't understand him.

Edited July 30, 2009 by PenEngineer

[tipstricks]

Pictured is my actual vintage collection. I own also some modern ones: Expert 1, Expert 2, Phileas and a Kultur.

 

52RHR, 52BCHR, 12PSF, 52BCHR, 12PSF, 52BCHR, 52 1/2V BCHR, 52 1/2V RHR, 52VRHR, 52V woodgrain, 94, 32, 92V, Junior, 513NM, French W, 14ED, Skywriter, W5, Crusader.

I just bought a 52 RHR with an accountant nib, said to be among the finest points ever made, but it's not writing especially fine. Have you ever used this nib?

 

Sorry for late answer, I've never used an accountant nib, but in the meantime I've found a Pink nib, that's one of the most finest point I've used.

[rhosygell]

I have had an accountant nib, it is very fine and very firm. Absolutely horrible little nail of a thing in my opinion.

 

Currently my Watermans comprise of:

 

Silver Ray Ink Vue standard (red nib)

 

94 Steel Quartz set (red nib)

 

54 mottled hard rubber (rigid fine nib - quite pleasant)

 

4521/2v (fine semi flex nib)

 

512v (medium semi flex)

 

Phileas (fine)

[davidpro]

Just one Ruby coloured Laureat for me. I wish the Medium Nib was a little finer- but I enjoy this baby-use it every day

[Peter Bryanston]

Tell us what waterman fountain pens you own....

I have :

2 Expert II's

3 Laureat's

one old lever fill waterman from 1951

3 Phileas

2 Carenes

1 Charleston

1 Hemisphere

 

Love them all.

 

 

I have an Exception in sterling silver, an Edson L.E. in sterling silver, and two Man 100 Patricians: one in blue and the other in red. All of them fantastic pens of superb quality.

[DAYoung]

I just have the one Waterman, a black Hemisphere, with chrome trim.

 

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[stephanf3]

Hello, after lurking around here for a while, I decided to give you a short list of my Waterman pens:

 

-Kultur (transparent red, F)

-Kultur (blue/black, F)

-Phileas (black/gold, M)

-Phileas (violet-black/gold, F)

-Ici et la (olive/gold, F)

-Centurion (red, F)

-Centurion (blue,L)

-Maestro (black/gold, M)

-Hemisphere(black/gold), F)

-Hemisphere (black/chrome, F)

-Hemisphere (green/chrome, F)

-Harmonie (blue-black/chrome, F)

-Laureat (green-grey/gold, F)

-Expert (dk. green/gold, F)

-Expert (black/gold, F)

-Expert (green/gold, M)

-Expert II (black/gold, F)

-Expert II (black/chrome, M)

-Preface (green/gold, F)

-Le Sulitzer (black/gold, F)

-Charleston (black/chrome, F)

-Charleston (blue/chrome, F)

-unknown (grey, F)

-unknown (blue, F)

 

Hmm, I think I'm a little bit addicted to Waterman...

 

My favorite models are the Expert and the Phileas. Both models are big enough for me yet lightweight.

[DAYoung]

Stephanf3, what are the virtues of Waterman pens? What's the appeal, for you?

[stephanf3]

Stephanf3, what are the virtues of Waterman pens? What's the appeal, for you?

At first, I don't collect pens to put them into a showcase. Every pen I buy has to be usable for me (and it will be used).

 

Regarding Waterman, I like the style. It's elegant but not extravagant. This pens don't shout "Look, I'm expensive", it's rather a whisper. The bigger sizes have a very comfortable grip but are not too heavy. Then there are the colours, oh my <sigh>. The deep black of the Experts, the cloudy green of the Preface, the marble-like green of the Laureat and even the deep violet/black of the rather inexpensive Phileas...

 

Then there is the price. Waterman pens are not cheap but I have the feeling, that the regular price is value for money (and you can snag an practically unused pen at ebay for a much lower price).

 

I have several pens of other companies and although there are some very nice models, no company seems to have such a variety of stylish pens. Although I have a very nice Cross Townsend and a beautiful Sheaffer Prelude and a solid Rotring 600 and a classy Pelikan 400, I wouldn't by every pen these companies have to offer but when it comes to Waterman, I like almost all models.

 

The only thing I'm missing is a real piston. I have some Pelikan pens and I really like the piston filling system. You don't have to take the pen apart and risk dropping it into the ink bottle just for a refill.

 

And the nibs could be a little thinner. I'm used to take my notes in a tiny writing. Therefore I'm limited to Waterman's fine nibs. When it comes to Pelikan or Sheaffer, I can easily use their medium nibs but a Waterman medium converts my already unreadable handwriting into something even I can't decipher anymore.

 

With a little luck, I can add another Laureat and an Allure to my collection soon, but what I'm really longing for is a garnet red Carene with a fine nib...

[DAYoung]

A very illuminating reply - thank you, Stephanf3.

 

Best of luck with that Carene...

 

Stephanf3, what are the virtues of Waterman pens? What's the appeal, for you?

At first, I don't collect pens to put them into a showcase. Every pen I buy has to be usable for me (and it will be used).

 

Regarding Waterman, I like the style. It's elegant but not extravagant. This pens don't shout "Look, I'm expensive", it's rather a whisper. The bigger sizes have a very comfortable grip but are not too heavy. Then there are the colours, oh my <sigh>. The deep black of the Experts, the cloudy green of the Preface, the marble-like green of the Laureat and even the deep violet/black of the rather inexpensive Phileas...

 

Then there is the price. Waterman pens are not cheap but I have the feeling, that the regular price is value for money (and you can snag an practically unused pen at ebay for a much lower price).

 

I have several pens of other companies and although there are some very nice models, no company seems to have such a variety of stylish pens. Although I have a very nice Cross Townsend and a beautiful Sheaffer Prelude and a solid Rotring 600 and a classy Pelikan 400, I wouldn't by every pen these companies have to offer but when it comes to Waterman, I like almost all models.

 

The only thing I'm missing is a real piston. I have some Pelikan pens and I really like the piston filling system. You don't have to take the pen apart and risk dropping it into the ink bottle just for a refill.

 

And the nibs could be a little thinner. I'm used to take my notes in a tiny writing. Therefore I'm limited to Waterman's fine nibs. When it comes to Pelikan or Sheaffer, I can easily use their medium nibs but a Waterman medium converts my already unreadable handwriting into something even I can't decipher anymore.

 

With a little luck, I can add another Laureat and an Allure to my collection soon, but what I'm really longing for is a garnet red Carene with a fine nib...

[Aysedasi]

Just the one at the moment for me - an 'ivoire' Charleston with a stub nib. It's a very nice pen, writes very well although it's been seriously usurped in my rotation by my two recent P51 acquisitions!

[lakewood]

Only one Waterman, a L'Etalon in black lacquer w/gold; medium nib that I bought new in 95 or 96. Love writing with it, but the clip does not grip tightly, and so it can fall out of my pocket easily - and has several times. For this reason, I've stopped carrying (and unfortunately using) it.

 

-David.

[satrap]

i own this one, but i don't know what model is...can anybody halp me??

 

 

Laureat