Royal Blue - St. Dupont

[visvamitra]

St Dupont Paris is a brand name and manufacturer of lighters, collectible pens, handbags, perfumes (produced under license by Interparfums) and other gadgets using the trademark diamond-head pattern. The company has been producing luxury items since its founding in 1872. The founder of the brand, Simon Tissot-Dupont, was born in Savoy in 1847 - the company owes its initials to him. It seems at the moment they offer only two inks in bottle (black and blue) and two more in cartridges.

At the moment the company offers two inks in nice glass bottles: Royal Blue and Black.

Royal Blue is nice, well-behaved ink. It's not amazing nor unique but still rather nice.

Ink Splash

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Tomoe River, Kaweco Sport Classic, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Sport, B

Oxford, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Water resistance

Comparison

[Cyber6]

OK.. don't you LOOOVE that bottle... I find it SEEXYY !!!

 

 

The Blue is OK... not too keen on "Royal Blues"..

 

 

 

Thanks Vis!!!

 

 

C.

[ArchiMark]

Very nice blue.....

 

But way the bottle looks in the photo (could just be perspective foreshortening...), the bottle proportions looks quite squat (ie, low and wide....a la JHerbin bottles....), if so, not so good for filling pen when bottle gets low with ink....otherwise, looks nice...

 

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

[Barkingpig]

Very nice blue.....

 

But way the bottle looks in the photo (could just be perspective foreshortening...), the bottle proportions looks quite squat (ie, low and wide....a la JHerbin bottles....), if so, not so good for filling pen when bottle gets low with ink....otherwise, looks nice...

 

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

The bottle is surely ridiculous BUT extremely "artful!" It is almost "more squatty" than the Herbin bottle. I have only these bottle but I think there was an earlier bottle that was equally "short" but round in shape.

[lgsoltek]

The bottle is functionally handicapped...

[VivienR]

Usable or not, I like the bottle, but I don't interested about the ink at all.

[jmccarty3]

This is a very nice Royal Blue. Thanks for the review!

[Moruk]

Very nice blue.....

 

But way the bottle looks in the photo (could just be perspective foreshortening...), the bottle proportions looks quite squat (ie, low and wide....a la JHerbin bottles....), if so, not so good for filling pen when bottle gets low with ink....otherwise, looks nice...

 

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

True enough. When the level gets low the only way to fill a pen is to remove the converter and fill that. There now is a larger bottle for sale (Farney's I think) of 70 ml. For all that, I think it's a very nice blue.

[lapis]

It's also available in standard cartridges. I don't favour that offer at all... but it also applies to S.T. Dupont's BLEU NUIT / DARK BLUE (Réf.040111) which is only available in cartridges. One of my all-time favourite dark blue / blue-blacks