Je crois qu'il est assez difficile de dater les productions du P75 par rapport aux bagues de section.
Je pense que les bagues lisses couleur argent et couleur or sont des productions uniquement françaises mais ça n'engage que moi.
D'après les renseignements ci-dessous sur les anneaux de section,effectivement les bagues lisses plaquées or ont été produites à Méru.
Mais il n'y a pas d'indication sur les bagues lisses chromées.
D'autant que sur les stylos achetés d'occase, les sections ont pu facilement être changées.
Ma source principale est le site parker75.com.
http://www.parker75.addr.com/Reference/ ... t_Book.htm
Voici un extrait de la page consacrée aux anneaux de sections mais sans les photos.
Ring
The original Parker 75 Ciselé introduced in 1964 had a chrome-plated ring with engraved lines and a zero reference mark. These characteristics were borrowed from the Parker VP model that preceded the 75. The purpose was to facilitate the nib point being rotated into a position that the user felt most comfortable.
The first Parker ads touted the 75 was "The first personal-fit pen tailored to write his own way". The pen would "conform precisely to his natural handwriting to become as personally his as his fingerprints".
These calibration markings were used to set the angle "by a dial as carefully calibrated as the lens on a $400 camera", the ads continued.
When first production began, the section ring was chrome-plated with ruled lines and the zero reference engraving. The matching nib was 14K gold.
Circa 1968, the chrome-plated ring omitted the zero reference engraving.
When production was shifted to the Meru plant in France, the first models produced had a gold-color section ring without any ruled lines.
Update of 12-14-2003:
I discovered that this section has a number inscribed near the barrel threads. I don't know if this is true for all sections of this kind.
French alternative to the ruled lines. Notice how the lines are cut across the entire width of the gold-colored ring. Also the ring does not continue off the edge.
I have come to learn that these are really sections for the Parker Premier, the luxury successor to the 75 line.
Update of 12-14-2003:
I discovered that this section has a serial number inscribed near the barrel threads. I don't know if this is true for all sections of this kind. See more of this here.
Chromeplated ring all the way to the edge, this was found on a French-made midnight blue laque FP with the Chinese characters.
Goldplated ring all the way to the edge, this was found on a Premier. What is interesting is that there was also a goldplated ring on the threads that screwed into the barrel.
French production changed the design to a 3mm wide gold-colored band. Notice how the ring no longer continues off the edge.
The ring was again changed to the final form - a thin gold-colored band. Apparently this was done because the wider bands were being corroded by inks. Matching this band was a 18K gold nib.
Update of 06-30-2009
According to this flyer, Parker's FP section change to the final form with the thin gold band were to:
re-design the ink collector system to provide more efficient ink control, especially at higher altitudes
aid ink flow by use of a new twist action piston filler, which also has larger ink capacity
re-style the gripping area
small change to the clip screw (aka tassie) and barrel tassie, the former being common between FP and BP
Voici des photos de toutes les sections de P75 que je connaisse.
Parker 75 écossais pl.argent (production française, bague chromée lisse)
Un grand merci et bravo Manohan pour une revue magnifique de précision et superbement illustrée . La plume fiine italique est bien dans l'esprit du motif à godron d'argent, d'une sobre élégance. J'aime beaucoup.
