Carene - New Colours (Materials)

[Left FPN]

 

 

In Watermans words,

 

The Finish: Elegant hand-draped blue/black leather finish, complimented by a rhodium plated 18k solid gold nib, fine metal detailing and a beveled cap end.

 

WOW $600

[thx1138]

Oh no.

[Addertooth]

Having owned many leather items in my life, I know the perfect beauty of them are fleeting. It takes little time for wear to start to show.

[Left FPN]

Having owned many leather items in my life, I know the perfect beauty of them are fleeting. It takes little time for wear to start to show.

Pic courtesy of Penchalet.

 

Plus, The barrel is made of French wrapped leather.

 

[tim77]

If Waterman would do a blue version of the variegated enamel on their "marine amber", I'd bite their arm off.

That leather finish just looks crass. As the French say, beurk!

[senzen]

Thanks for the info; my wallet sighed with relief. A piece of dead cow skin as I write... Er, no thanks, really.

 

A wood Carène... A blue Carène with the section in the same colour as the rest of the body... A transparent "message in a bottle" Carène... At less than extortionate prices please!

[sciumbasci]

Not sure how nice it would be a demonstrator Carene, unless it is eyedropper-able. A half demonstrator option where the section is transparent, like the P51 Demo would be very, very nice indeed. It'll solve the problem of havi g a black section on a blue, white or any other colour pen!

[Calamus plasticus]

Retail is 750 old good american dollars... it must be unicorn leather :-)

[Intensity]

Why... So many other options that are more durable, look better, and don't require dead animal parts.

[tim77]

Having owned many leather items in my life, I know the perfect beauty of them are fleeting.

 

 

Leather trousers are notorious for losing their shape. I wonder if the new Carenes also get saggy-seat syndrome.

[Left FPN]

It will be interesting to see the seam.

[encremental]

Hideous, obviously - but so good to see new pens from Waterman after all this time! As pen after pen fell by the wayside, I was beginning to think that Sanford was going to mothball the entire operation.

 

John

Edited November 20, 2019 by encremental

[amk]

Probably not going to sell particularly well in the Indian market :-)

[Glenn-SC]

A piece of dead cow skin as I write... Er, no thanks, really.

 

Oh, come on!

Do you wear leather shoes?

Belt?

Gloves?

Use a Pen case?

Are you a vegetarian?

[langere]

There are some gorgeous Japanese pens that are covered in leather. I have a few and they are quite old and still look very good.

 

Erick

[TSherbs]

 

Oh, come on!

Do you wear leather shoes?

Belt?

Gloves?

Use a Pen case?

Are you a vegetarian?

Why give someone pushback on a simple preference for a non-animal-based material? I too curtail my leather purchases. And my meat eating. But not down to zero, no. But so what? I try to limit my cantankerousness also, albeit imperfectly. The effort is still reasonable.

[TSherbs]

 

 

Leather trousers are notorious for losing their shape. I wonder if the new Carenes also get saggy-seat syndrome.

And stains? 😀

[Left FPN]

Update:

 

UK Price (Black Friday) £340 from the Brazilian River Company.

 

Also I think, having looked at more pictures, the barrel has grown in diameter from the normal lacquer size probably to accommodate the leather. More evident on the boxed pen where the barrel appears to be the same diameter as the cap. Lacquered pens step down. Pic added below. I do find the flush aspect pleasing.

 

The blue pen may be a lacquered model morphed with a leather effect because the cap is dull silver.

 

Regardless of your material preferences (personal issues) I find it hard to believe that peps will pay £200 more than a Marine Amber.

 

[Left FPN]

Cast your minds back 5 or 6 years...

 

[thx1138]

Wow, the green is awesome.