This material issue is likely what motivated its removal from the line-up when the decision was made to take Waterman in an up-scale direction clearly no one was going to pay a vastly higher price for this pen than was being charged for it, and to enhance the materials would both cost extra on the production side and muddy the waters in which the Expert was cruising (it already being the higher-end mounting for the same sort of point). Since the name was openly borrowed from the protagonist of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, Art Deco is an odd choice, since Verne wrote the book in 1873 not only well ahead of Art Deco but at least a decade before the appearance of the Art Nouveau style it was a reaction to.Īpart from slightly madcap styling, the Phileas suffers a little from its materials, being somewhat over-given to collecting scratches. This pen also appears under the name Kultur, in which it loses some of its Art Deco touches in favour of a more modern colour palate. Personally, I find it pleasant if a bit whimiscal, but I can see where it might be a little much for some folks. The stylistic oddity lies in an aggressive pursuit of Art Deco styling. The Phileas was an entry-level offering from Waterman, which while perhaps a little stylistically odd for some tastes was universally praised for writing qualities far above its station.
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