The Victorinox OH Master is a new 111mm liner lock model. It has gray/black dual density scales, a serrated one handed blade with a Road Tour logo and a new, stainless steel metal saw and metal file. The one handed Master RT was introduced in 2010 as part of the Victorinox Road Tour collection, just like the Climber RT.
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The Spartan is the standard 91mm knife. It has the basic tool configuration with 2 blades, a can opener, a bottle opener, a reamer/awl, a corkscrew, tweezers and a toothpick. The Spartan comes in a wide range of scale colors, including this camouflage pattern. The Spartan is actually the modern incarnation of the original Swiss officer’s knife from 1897.
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This is a Victorinox Voyager. It adds an electronic clock and an alarm to the popular Climber model. The Swiss shield is actually a button that controls the clock and alarm. The Voyager has plus scales, containing a straight pin and a pen. Usually, the tweezers are in the front scales, but since there is no room for the tweezers (the battery compartment is in the way), the tweezers have moved to the back scales. They are a bit smaller
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The Victorinox SwissChamp was introduced in 1985 as the premium model in the line-up. It added pliers to the Champion Plus model which had been the biggest Swiss Army Knife before. The SwissChamp is still the biggest regular model, although a couple of even bigger SAKs have been available, like the SwissChamp XLT, XXLT and XAVT. Those are considered collector’s pieces while the SwissChamp is actually usable on an everyday basis. The Champ has evolved a little since its introduction
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This is another Camper, the same model I showed before (that was a green Camper), but this one is in stylish black. This one has been fitted with Plus scales (including a ballpoint pen), but this Swiss Army knife normally comes with normal scales, usually with a Camping logo on the front.
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In 2010, Victorinox released a soft grip version of the Climber model for the On The Road tour. It is called the Climber RT (Road Tour) and has black cellidor scales with a special coating giving it a nice soft grip finish. You can see the difference between the soft grip scales and the regular shiny cellidor scales in the picture with the Climber RT and a Compact model. It also features a laser engraved Your Companion for Life on
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There is a thread on the MultiTool.org forums about black Swiss Army knives, with lots of great pictures. I happen to like black cellidor scales a lot. In fact, it’s one of my favorite scale colors, along with green and any kind of colored alox. Here are some of my black Victorinox SAKs. I have some more, including a black Compact (awesome EDC knife!), more Classics and a black SwissCard: A little info on the knives in the picture: The
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