On the hunt for a Waterman 100 years ribbed oversize model.
So got few questions

1.How much does it goes for ?
2.How good of a pen is it ?
3.Any specific problems with this pen ?

Any other info would be highly appreciated

Thanks

This model?



On this one the capped cracked pretty badly and the cracks had to be stabilized.

1. In primo condition $500
2. It's gorgeous but somewhat fragile (certainly won't last 100 years!)
3. YES, they crack at the cap lip. The top and bottom end pieces tend to craze and suddenly break off or turn to dust.

But, I'd still love to have one!

not OS

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First Style of OS 1941 or so in colors can hit $1000 retail, Excellent.

Late OS in black perhaps little as $250.

The later celluloids tend to crumble more easily than early Acrylic, but event the latter can crack.

Sold a ribbed OS last year and smooth early OS couple months ago. Can be grand pens, but are fragile. Black is a good option as black is far more stable than colors


Earliest Style OS (Smooth). Acrylic more stable than later celluloid. Still, watch for end crazing.



Late style OS (well less valuable)



regards

david

1.How much does it goes for ?

I got mine free with an Esterbrook base.

2.How good of a pen is it ?

It has the flexiest and sexiest nib of any pen that I have.

3.Any specific problems with this pen ?

In my case, the caps tend to get lost, and the acrylic at the end of the barrel disappears.

There is a huge amount of misinformation about Hundred Year pens, much of it going back many years. #1 misconception is that all examples are made of the same material. Fact: early production was acrylic (Lucite); after the first few years, production reverted to the old standby, celluloid. Which leads to misconception #2, which is that all Hundred Year pens are prone to crystallization of their ends. Only the celluloid pens are vulnerable in this respect -- though one still has to watch for stress cracks in the usual places (cap lip, barrel mouth) on the earlier acrylic examples.

Thanks for the info eveybody.
The issue of the pen falling apart kind of cooled me down a bit.

I've seen some of them go rather inexpensively with ends that need to be repaired/replaced
or have already been repaired/replaced on e Bay.

Not that I am, at the moment and perhaps never again, advocating
that particular market place.

Surely not advocating any of those particular pens; merely
providing the info.