Waterman Parts In Chinese Pen?

[miket_nyc]

I bought a very strange pen at a NYC flea market today. The name on the nib is Minka, which is apparently a long-established pen company in Taiwan. I bought it because it has the weirdest filling mechanism I've ever seen. You unscrew the barrel and there's a glass tube with a knurled metal section further back and a black plastic knob on the very end. You turn the knob and a piston moves down the glass tube. Turn it the other way and it moves back, filling the tube with ink.

 

I thought this was pretty cool, but when I got it home, I discovered something even weirder: in fine writing on the metal part next to the glass tube, it says: "WATERMAN -- made in France."

 

So what's going on here? Waterman is making the filling mechanism for Chinese pens? Or is this the world's strangest converter? (It doesn't seem to be removable, though I haven't tried pulling very hard on it).

[usk15]

Can you post some pictures?

[Tweel]

Can you post some pictures?

 

Yes please, on the face of it you seem to be describing a standard twist converter.

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

If it is a waterman converter it is probable a thread converter that does not pull out.

[Scrawler]

I am not sure I am imagining this right, so I am keen to see photos.

[miket_nyc]

Sorry this took so long (and sorry the images aren't sharper. Taken with my phone). If this is a standard Waterman threaded converter, what pens is it designed to thread into? My Waterman CF takes a push-in converter (and CFs are the only Waterman cartridge pens I've seen in the local flea markets).

[chunya]

Looks like the last owner bought a Waterman Converter, the newer ones are standard fit (not sure about older types) ... what does it write like?

[Tweel]

I'm not aware of Waterman making any threaded converters, just push-on ones. Have you tried again to remove it?

[prashant.tikekar]

I have few Waterman hemispheres and experts which came with same Waterman convertors shown in here