Cellidor is one of the most common scale materials. It’s a nice, shiny type of plastic. Cellidor scales will warp/deform when exposed to high temperatures. Be careful when cleaning your SAKs and never throw them in the dishwasher.
Available in a wide range of colors.
The Victorinox Explorer is basically a Climber with an extra layer. The added tools are a magnifying glass and an inline Phillips screwdriver. This one was made before 1991 since there is no hook on the back side of the scissors layer. Also, the corkscrew is fluted and there is a very thin key ring
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Here is another Executive. This one has the older, thin cellidor scales and the older style scissors (with a single leaf spring made of carbon steel). Compared to this Victoria marked Executive, it has newer, plastic tipped tweezers and a different type of nail file (with a textured finish instead of the cross cut design).
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The Recruit is a pretty basic 84mm Swiss Army Knife. It has only 2 layers and it has no back side tools. This one is an uncommon version, the Serrated Recruit. It has a fully serrated large blade. I believe this model was aimed at the North American market; mine came in a Swiss Army
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The 84mm Tinker (or Tinker Small) is the smaller version of the very popular Tinker model. The Tinker is closely related to the Spartan: the only difference is that the Tinker has a back mounted Phillips screwdriver instead of a corkscrew. This particular Tinker is pretty old, given that the Phillips has a square shaft
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I bought this blue Victorinox Spartan while I was on holiday on the Greek island of Crete (or Rhodes, I can’t remember exactly, it could also have been Samos ;) ). It’s a normal Spartan but with a very nice Spirit of Greece illustration on the front scale. There is also a Greek flag and
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The Spartan Lite is a 91mm Swiss Army Knife, based on the Spartan model. It adds one extra layer with a Phillips screwdriver and an LED light. The LED light is operated by the little red switch on the plastic housing. The switch can be locked in the on position or just pressed for momentary
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The CyberTool 34 is the CyberTool 29‘s bigger brother, adding scissors, pliers and a multi purpose hook. This particular one has translucent onyx scales. I thought those scales would be translucent black, but they turned out to be more like reddish brown… These scales have a slot for a small set of tweezers, like the
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The Victorinox CyberTool 29 was introduced in 2000. It adds plus scales and a Bit driver to the basic Spartan model. The bit driver and bit holder are unique to the CyberTool models (and some collectors knives like the SwissChamp XAVT). All CyberTool models come with 4 different, double sided bits, including flat head, Pozidriv,
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The Bavarian Palace Department, or Bayerischen Schlösserverwaltung, sells Victorinox Swiss Army Knives in their online store. This Huntsman has a nice light blue pattern with Swans, Lions and Bavarian shields. There is a laser engraved text on the main blade.
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This Climber has unusual scales. They are cellidor with a hot stamped shield (not a metal inlay) and a couple of Swiss flags and edelweiss flowers printed on them. Switzerland is printed in 4 different languages. These climbers were a special order for Migros, a large Swiss supermarket/wholesale chain. Update: this SAK has found a
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