Set of two WATERMAN ballpoint pens and fountain pen

Set of two WATERMAN ballpoint pens and fountain pen.
Silver plated barrel and gold plated appointments.
Gold-plated nib. M tip.
Click cap.
With original box.
Measures: 15,5 cm. length, 23 mm. diameter.
Waterman is the world's second largest manufacturer of fountain pens. It is a company that produces and markets fountain pens, ballpoint pens, mechanical pencils and rollers. Founded in 1883 in New York by Lewis Edson Waterman (20 November 1836 - 1 May 1901), it is one of the oldest pen manufacturing companies still in operation.
Waterman's main contribution was the side-groove filling system patented in 1884. Based on capillary action (capillarity), its application allows the ink to flow steadily into the nib, eliminating annoying dripping when writing. The Regular pen was the first to incorporate this innovation.
After the founder's death in 1901, his nephew Frank D. Waterman took over the company, establishing it abroad and increasing sales to 350,000 pens a year. In 1904, he launched the "clip-cap" pen, with a riveted safety clip that could be attached to a pocket. In 1907, the retractable Safety Pen was noted for its highly reliable resistance to dripping, and in 1913, the "lever and pouch" filling system was invented.
In 1927, a French researcher invented a glass ink cartridge (patented in 1936) which was a major transformation for the future of the fountain pen. In 1953, Waterman abandoned the glass cartridge and ushered in the era of plastic ink cartridges, which helped to popularise fountain pens.
Since 1967, Waterman pens have been manufactured at the Saint-Herblain plant near Nantes in France, where about 5 million units are produced each year. Seventy percent of the production is exported to 110 countries.