Help Identity Blue Ink Cartridge That Came With My Waterman Kultur Transparent

[AndWhoDisguisedAs]

Hey Fountain Penners:

 

I just purchased a Waterman Kulur transparent fountain pen. Really like it.

It came with an unnamed blue Waterman ink cartridge. Does anyone know what Waterman name that color is?

 

The eBay store I purchased it from has no idea other than “it’s blue.” I can tell you that it’s not Mysterious Blue nor does it look like either Serenity Blue or Intense Blue. It’s much richer and in fact, I’d buy a bottle of whatever it is.

 

I understand Waterman has recently rebranded its inks, phased some colors out, and no longer make some inks available in cartridges like Blue Obsession. (Can anyone tell me about that ink and might it be the richer blue ink that came with the Kultur?)

 

This is my third Waterman. My first fountain pen was an Expert I that alas, has sadly disappeared. I have the aforementioned Kultur and a Phileas.

 

Ink suggestions are always welcomed! I’m currently in a blue-black or black-blue phase and searching for the “perfect” ink.

 

Thanks everyone! I await your replies.

Edited June 6, 2017 by AndWhoDisguisedAs

[Left FPN]

In 1988 Waterman listed Black, Blue, Red, Purple, Green, Blue/black, South Sea Blue and Brown.

 

In 2000 or there abouts Black, Blue/black, Florida Blue, South Sea Blue, Green, Red, Purple, Pink and and Havana.

 

The revised colours have new names and I think some different tones of which Serenity Blue is my favourite.

 

I have a few Phili single pen packs with a cartridge and they look like Florida Blue at a guess...a mid blue between SSB and BB.

 

A few colours here

[Chrissy]

I think they are whatever their version of Royal Blue is at the time. i.e. not blue/black or turquoise

[Ernst Bitterman]

You may also be enjoying an ink that has concentrated a little; cartridges of unknown age might have lost some of their water. There wasn't much to tell between Waterman's Blue and Florida Blue apart from their packaging from the 1970s until the latest re-naming.

 

As far as perfect inks go... well, that's awfully subjective. I haven't tried Waterman's since the re-naming, but I've seen it used by others and it still seems nice. If you get a converter or a syringe to re-fill cartridges, though, the world is your oyster.

 

(the first of those links is a little fiddly; I found I had to left-click "open in new tab" on the makers' names to get anything out of it).

[AndWhoDisguisedAs]

Great call on the blue ink being concentrated.

 

What syringe do you recommend? I see them listed from Amazon to eBay to Goulet and other pen dealers.

 

And the "perfect" ink - I might be new, but I know there's no such thing.

 

"Write" now, I'm hunting for fast/quick drying inks like Parker Quink, Lamy and Waterman.

Kon Peki is still my favorite. Aurora Black. And always open to trying something new.

[Ernst Bitterman]

I've got a stock of insulin syringes left from a recently-departed elderly cat, so I'm not really a good recommender of sources. I've gotten (pause for dramatic effect)... other things... from the Goulets, and never felt I'd done poorly out of the transaction.