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Waterman's Hundred Year Pen #17, 14k Gold, 430g Semi Flex
Waterman's Hundred Year Pen #17, 14k Gold, 430g Semi Flex
🥇 Grade: B+
🏠 Housing: Nikko Red Ebonite, JOWO #6
🔱 Nib: Waterman's Hundred Year Pen 17
🖋️ Line Spec: F - 4B | 0.30mm – 1.72mm (5.73x)
🌡️ Flexibility Pressure: 440g Semi Flex
📐 Dimensions: 22.35mm Nib Length (Past Housing)
⚖️ Weight: 1.980g
Early 1940s Waterman nib produced for the famous Lucite Hundred Year Pens and their variations — comparable in size to the 1920s size 5. A piece of one of Waterman's most iconic pen lines, now in a modern-compatible housing. Tipping tuned and smoothed. Nib and feed heat-set into housing. Semi flex writer that delivers very expressive line variation with moderate pressure. Sharp, smooth tip produces a consistent fine hairline at rest — excellent contrast between unflexed and flexed strokes.
Tested in a Little Hollow Custom Mistress on Rhodia 80gsm with Diamine Imperial Purple.
Technical Specifications
Technical Specifications
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Restorer: Heron's Mooncake
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Appendix for Listing Details
Sweating the details is fundamental to understanding, appreciating, and knowing the peice of history you have in your hands.
All pens are filled and tested, not just dipped in ink, which does not reflect writing characteristics whatsoever.
Line Variation Standard
Different restorers have different standards for line sizing and especially for vintage pens, the printed tipping size will not always be accurate due to repairs/grinds/etc. Please use this as a frame of reference for consistency.
Flexibility Standard
Nib flexibility is such a controversial topic, but there needs to be some level of consistency so please take this table as a frame of reference for my restorations and as someone who is writing in a calligraphic/spencerian style of cursive script. Without objective measurements, flexibility terms such as wet noodle are useless as someone with stronger forearms and grip strength will make even manifold nibs into a wet noodle.
Restoration Ratings
These are guidelines incorporated from various online sources not limited to Reddit, David Nishimura, etc.
