Waterman Man 100

[adamselene]

Gat a black medium, and it is my new favorite.

 

Love smoothness, reliability, secure cap, flow, sturdiness, feel in hand and on paper.

 

Want to know more about different varieties, the 200 etc.

 

Is the first year edition a bonus or a red flag?

 

Etc.

 

Thanks.

[aurore]

Congratulations. Indeed, it's a great pen.

As usual, all the info you ever wanted to get you can find browsing/searching this forum or following the links pinned on this forum thus easy to find. Such as: https://pennibink.weebly.com/

[jchch1950]

They were quite a number of different finishes of the Man 100 :sterling silver. wood,lacquer.They were also black engraved ones and one in solid gold. I agree they are usable well build pens.

[yoplaboum]

For the first year of release, the nibs on the Man 100 were not engraved "Ideal Paris", but "1883-1983". The nibs on this pen are really excellent, the most Waterman lovers consider this brand didn't make better nibs after these.

Edited June 13, 2020 by yoplaboum

[Bo Bo Olson]

I collect Pelikans, and have two superflex 52's.

The only other Waterman I've only had was a fingerprint trap chrome Graduate that I sold quickly. It was also a nail.

 

All the 'lot' of pens shown, were won at a live auction. All are 18 K nibs. The C'dA and Noblesse are nails. The other C'd A is for a ball point or roller ball; having no guts.

All are from late '80's-early '90's.

 

The black pens are in order a Pelikan 800 W.Germany OB, a Waterman 200 and a 149. The brown woody looking one is a Diplomat.

Then comes a '94 Stirling silver Pelikan 915 LE Hunter Toledo, a silver topped MB Noblesse, also unfortunately a nail, like the C'dA below it.

 

I wasn't going to win it.....it would be well over my max....was 3 X my max.

To tell the truth I only looked at the Pelikans. .

Ever so ignorant of Waterman I thought the brown woody one might be the Waterman, but didn't even look at any of the others outside the two Pelikans....I 'knew' I'd not win......but just wanted to hold the Toledo....which I found out what exactly it was after I won.

 

My 200 is a first generation '85-88 one; with a nice springy regular flex nib....that were the 'first generation' nib, after the 100 year nib.

 

Until I found that great link in this thread I thought it a 100.

The nib is a nice regular flex F that was often on pens in that era. I do like the springy soft riding regular flex nibs (called soft in Japanese pens).

"""""""the nibs on this pen are really excellent, the most Waterman lovers consider this brand didn't make better nibs after these.""""

 

 

Some of the Pens like the 915, 800 and the 200 were very much near mint. The 800&200 still had the size sticker on them.

The next pen I ink will be the 200.....in I'm trying to reduce the amount of pens in my pen cup.....to use up more ink. I'm down to 10 pens inked from my 'normal 17.

Thanks for the link..............I've suddenly this minute, developed a great need for colorful 100 or 200's.