I am posting this here and in the Waterman area...

I have always been intriqued by the look of the Waterman CF with the inlaid nib.... a nice classy looking pen...

How well do they write....
I am looking at 2 on eBay from the Netherlands that are going off in a couple of days...
What would be considered a decent price for a pen in excellent condition (the seller is known and reputable in his descriptions)

Tom:

I have a pair of them, one in medium (too fat!) and one in fine.

They write very nicely indeed, and since they have rather thin, tapered sections, fit my hand quite well. The only drawbacks I've noted are a lack of cartridges (I'm using the old ones in the pens and an old Scripto, which is identical) and the gold fill on the clip seems to be very fragile -- both of mine show significant brassing along with considerably drawer wear.

Very brazen early 50's styling on the plastic ones, too!

Peter

Hi Tom,

I have had several and still have two or three, the XF/EF is really EF not like later Watermans that people seem to think write fatter than their size mark. The F is likewise a real F although there is a little variation betwween the US French and English made ones, The mediums are very similar wherever they are made it seems, the 18ct French nibs and the 14ct from elsewhere are very similar in performance.

If you find one of the rarer nibs like the B or stub M then you are onto a good thing they are brilliant. I have never seen a true sharp italic so can't say.

They tend to write dry when they could do with a clean they do came apart so that you can get to the feed and inside the shell, when they are clean they are free flowing and can support the line width with no problem.

Trim plating is as mentioned a bit tenuous on some of them on others it is fine the upper range pens are better than the lower end one as far as plating is concerned.

hope this helps a little


Cheers, John.