About Victorinox Swiss Army Knives
In 2017 Victorinox introduced this Limited Edition Fieldmaster dedicated to the Ski World Championship in St. Moritz. This SAK has a nice abstract image of the Swiss alps on the front and a ski with the Victorinox brand name on the back scale. There is a House of Switzerland 2017 laser engraving on the main blade. I do not have an official number but there were supposed to be 5000 of this SAK made.
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Updated group photo of most of the translucent scale colors, excluding the colors used in the 58mm line. Note that the two onyx SAKs used to be quite different from each other a few years ago. They have both faded even more due to exposure to UV light. The pink one is a Rose Edition officer’s knife. That color was very uncommon back then but has since became readily available on the My First Victorinox models. Too bad those scales
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This Victorinox Huntsman with ruby scales was introduced in 2004. It has a color image of William Tell (or Wilhelm Tell) and his son on the front scale. It was made to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the William Tell Tell play by Friedrich Schiller from 1804. It’s not the best photo in the world :P And unfortunately the knife is in poor condition. Not only did it arrive very dirty but the main blade has been sharpened a million
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This Spartan was part of the Confoederatio Helvetica series, released in 1991. It has an image of William Tell on the front scale. The other knives in this series had metal inlays. Note that the Ambassador was not part of the series and neither was that Sportsman with music cassette I showed a decade ago. Production of this Spartan was limited to 53,440 pieces. Model no. 1.3603.91.
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In November 2011 Victorinox released a rather unique version of the 74mm Executive mode featuring hand crafted mammoth tusk ivory scales. It came in a nice gift box with a cloth sleeve and a small leaflet with some information on the material used. According to sources close to Victorinox and based on pictures I’ve seen there were lots of problems with the fit and finish of these scales. Mammoth Ivory is a hard material to work with and several of
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The Victorinox Battle of Morgarten knife was released in 1983 as the first member of the Swiss Battle Series. This Swiss Army Knife is basically a Spartan without key ring and tweezers. There is an intricate metal inlay on the front scale and a very nice laser engraving on the main blade. The knife is numbered (n/9999) and it came in a black wooden presentation box accompanied by a certificated of authenticity.
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This nice Climber was a special order for De Messenwinkel, a knife store in Antwerp, Belgium. The nice diamonds/hands pattern on the black scales was designed by one of the store employees. This Climber was offered on Pocket Knife Day in March 2019.
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In 2018 Victorinox issued this nice limited edition set in memory of Karl Elsener who had passed away a century before. The set consists of a white Huntsman with Karl Elsener’s signature on the front scale and a unique CHF 20 coin. The coin shows a picture of Victorinox Huntsman knife.The SAK and coin came in a gift box with Karl Elsener’s portrait on the front.
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This is a limited edition Victorinox Huntsman Lite. It is numbered nnnn/1111 and was produced in 2006. The alumin(i)um presentation case also contains a piece of jeans material with a leather belt and a knife chain, and two Swiss postage stamps. There is more info on SAKWiki. One of these had been on my wish list for quite some time when a while back I found one for a good price. And it turned out the seller lived in my
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Just a nice pic of a limited edition Climber (1.3703.T88) with gold scales (basically SilverTech but 24 carat gold plated. GoldTech I guess?). It’s limited to “only” 20,000 pieces worldwide and comes in a nice LE box. And two sets of the color twins: Spartans in new colors: translucent bright green and orange, plus matching fruit/tomato knives.
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