Montblanc Twilight Blue, Waterman Mysterious Blue, Parker Blue Black

[dneal]

There's a topic about the new MB Blue Hour / Twilight Blue over in the MB forum. It looked interesting, so I bought a couple of bottles. When I added it to my running comparo of blue inks, and getting ready to do a review; I discovered it's so close to Waterman Mysterious Blue / Parker Blue Black as to be indistinguishable.

 

Can you identify the MB?

 

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa163/roomdog/Ink/Comparison_zpsyczgpcxr.jpeg

 

Me either, if I didn't know. Save yourself some money and buy the Waterman / Parker.

 

Answer is here

[inkstainedruth]

Wow. I would not have been able to tell them apart.

I have a bottle of Waterman Mysterious Blue. It's well behaved (and one of the tester inks I use for vintage pens). But it's very pen and paper dependent. Sometimes it looks like your right hand exemplars, sometimes the left hand ones. And in one instance I had someone insist that it was *green*. Even though I knew what the ink in the pen was.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dneal]

Instead of multiple passes with a swab, I use the method above to see the range of the ink. The sample on the right is as wet as the ink can get, laid down with a dip pen, and left to dry. The sample on the left is put down in the same way, but immediately blotted with a paper towel.

 

A dry pen will lean more to the left, and a wet pen to the right. A nib that does a good job shading will show the range from left to right.

[EclecticCollector]

To my eyes, on my monitor, the Twilight Blue is distinctly less yellow than the other two, though the difference is much less pronounced in the wet samples.

[amberleadavis]

Thank you for the comparison.

[Tas]

Thank you for making me blow off the dust to my Waterman's Blue Black and, surprisingly, fall for it again.

(although I will NEVR call it a blue-black )

[bstnnyc]

Thank you for an excellent comparison! You should add it to the doppelganger thread!

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/278558-battle-of-the-inks-doppelgaenger-edition/?do=findComment&comment=3188626

[lgsoltek]

They look really close, but I still want that Twilight Blue... (confession of an addict)

[swanjun]

They look really close, but I still want that Twilight Blue... (confession of an addict)

 

Me, too. But I'll probably only get one bottle of it.

[dneal]

 

Me, too. But I'll probably only get one bottle of it.

 

I got a bottle of Leonardo Red Chalk, and wish I had bought more. JFK Navy Blue has really grown on me, so I got a second bottle. I liked the swab of Twilight Blue, so went ahead and got two (so I wouldn't have the hassle of getting another bottle). As luck would have it, I wish I only bought one...

[swanjun]

 

I got a bottle of Leonardo Red Chalk, and wish I had bought more. JFK Navy Blue has really grown on me, so I got a second bottle. I liked the swab of Twilight Blue, so went ahead and got two (so I wouldn't have the hassle of getting another bottle). As luck would have it, I wish I only bought one...

 

Heh. Good to know! Sometimes I do buy 2-3 upfront, but for the Leonardo and JFK I also only have one each.

[J85909266]

The Twilight Blue has great red/orange sheen, though, and the others don't. Check Attika's posts in https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/282096-dont-just-tell-us-about-the-pen-youre-using-show-us-2015/page-107

 

Photo by attika89

[sarahfar]

yes it does, and it is nice ink....