A navy metal tin with a white label on the lid: NABLON above a circled monogram, then TRANSPARENT WATER COLOR, then the article number N24. Inside, twenty-four pans lie in two rows of twelve with a single blue-handled brush across them, and the lid hinges back into three flat panels that serve as the mixing surface.

There is nothing else in the box, and that is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up. No sponge, no pencil, no pouch, no paper. Rs. 2,050 buys twenty-four transparent pans, a brush and the tin they live in — Rs. 85.42 a pan.

Set against the shelf, that puts it almost exactly level with our Keep Smiling Solid 36 at Rs. 81.94 a colour and our Giorgione Watercolor Cakes at Rs. 86.25, and well under our Sakura Koi 24 sketch box at Rs. 162.50. The Koi brings a water brush and a folding palette; this brings a metal tin and a plain brush. You are paying for pigment and not much else.

Transparent is the word on the label and it is the honest description of how these behave. The colour sits on the paper and lets the white beneath it do the lightening, which is what separates watercolour from the opaque school paint in our Pelikan box. It also means a mistake stays where you put it, so the drawing underneath has to be right first.

The spread runs a white and the yellows into oranges and reds, a run of crimsons and browns, then blues and violets, then two greens and a black. It is a working range rather than a wide one, and at twenty-four pans there is enough to mix the rest without the tray becoming a museum.

We list this set from 8 years up. The Safencia price is Rs. 2,050 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, and stock, your city and delivery charges are confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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