Perhaps the most well-known scale color. Iconic.
The Victorinox Altimeter adds electronic scales containing an altimeter and a thermometer to the Climber model. Unlike it’s brother the Voyager, the Altimeter has been discontinued. It has been replaced by the Traveller, which combines the digital clock and alarm from the Voyager and the altimeter/thermometer from the Altimeter.
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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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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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This is a red Jumpmaster. It’s a 111mm liner locking Swiss Army Knife with 4 layers. It’s one of only a few liner lock knives available with red nylon scales. It’s also one of a few knives containing a serrated emergency blade or seat belt cutter.
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This Climber has a long nail file on the back instead of the multi purpose hook the current Climber model has. It’s an interesting knife: the long nail file is a very old tool and I believe this Climber is the only recent/current model available with the nail file. This model is mentioned in the
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The Victorinox “De Luxe” is a luxury model, made from 1980 to 1999. It is almost the same as the very common Classic, but has enameled brass scales with a marble pattern and gold trim. The scales are squared off at the top and bottom, so these knives are slightly smaller than the Classic (56mm
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This is a red Victorinox Trailmaster. It is the same model as the pretty common One handed Trekker, but the Trekker usually has black scales instead of red ones. It’s also the same as the German Army Knife, but the GAK has no tweezers/toothpick. This Trailmaster has the old, oval shaped thumb hole in the
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This is a pretty old Executive. It has the Victoria stamp on the tang of the main blade, aluminum tipped tweezers and the older style scissors (with a single leaf spring). The orange peeler has finer teeth than current Executive knives like this green Executive and this older, smooth alox one. The red cellidor scales
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The (original) Traveller is basically a Climber without key ring. This particular one has the Victorinox shield and cross on the back scale, since there is a metal inlaid company logo on the front. This knife is from before 1985 (because the awl/reamer has no sewing eye). Note the fluted corkscrew and the absence of
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These are three 93mm knives in red alox. The first one is a red Farmer. The 2 with a Brütsch Rüegger logo on the front scales are Pioneer Ranchers. The older one has brass liners and a non-polished bottle opener. The farmer adds a wood saw to the basic Pioneer model. The Pioneer Rancher substitutes
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