discontinued – LeaF's Victorinox knives collection

585. SwissChamp XXLT

The Victorinox SwissChamp XXLT knife is a one of fews, produced specially for ~~stupid people~~ collectors. Moreover – it’s a one from three (or four?) models which has extremely rare tool – Butane Lighter.

Short summary: nice, valuable, not suitable for EDC.

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Related models:

SwissChamp
SwissChamp X series

SAKWiki

584. Lumberjack (old version)

Few weeks before I’ve reviewed a predecessor of current model Lumberjack – Model 2231. Ooops, now Lumberjack called as Walker, I can not get used to it..

But lets talk about knives. Today’s knife is a predecessor of Lumberjack model, which was a predecessor of today’s knife Walker… Much better 🙂

As Model 2231, this knife has a cap-lifter instead of combo-tool and cellidor scales instead of Alox ones, but doesn’t have dedicated name. At least, I couldn’t find it yet.

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Related models:

Model 2231
Lumberjack
Bantam

SAKWiki

578. Electrician Alox

Early variation of Electrician Alox model with old cross. Before 1980 this model had a name Model 2212.

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Pioneer Range 1980

Related models:

Pioneer
Rancher

SAKWiki

577. Model 2231 (Lumberjack)

Actually this model was released before then name Lumberjack was given to the another model with similar configuration of tools. The one discrepance between them – latest Lumberjack has combo-tool instead of cap-lifter in Model 2231.

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Pioneer Range 1980

Related models:

Lumberjack
Bantam

SAKWiki

576. Secure

The Victorinox Secure was a model with a 3^rd generation USB Flash Memory (the same one, as was used in Presentation Master model). It was a first implementation of USB-stick with finger-print module.

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Related models:

Presentation Master
Swiss Flash
Swiss Memory
Victorinox@Work (Signature Slim)

SAKWiki

575. TimeKeeper

The Victorinox TimeKeeper – an early variation of this unusual model.

The clock has dial with two Roman numerals (XII and VI) and 10 dashes (thanks, SAKWiki!).

Interesting fact: have you ever seen such paper instruction, as one which was included to this knife? I’ve faced with such type first time…

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Related models:

Compact
SuperTimer

SAKWiki

573. Master Fisherman

The Master Fisherman is a definetely rare model. There are no enough information about this model in the web (except some topics on MTO).

Even SAKWiki mentioned absolutely nothing about this unique knife (but few weeks ago one good fellow added new page with short description there! ;))

So, Master Fisherman – extended variation of Fisherman by adding pliers.

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Related models:

Fisherman
Deluxe Angler

SAKWiki

572. SwissChamp (100 Years)

Twenty years ago in honor of 100-years jubilee, company Victorinox announced a special run of limited series “100th Anniversary (1897-1997)”. This set included a two models:

Spartan 1.3603.J97
SwissChamp 1.6794.J97

I found first model from this list in mint condition, second one very hardly used..

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Related models:

Champion
SwissChamp XL series

SAKWiki

571. Carpenter

I’ve started to collect Victorinox knives approximatelly 5 years ago. I didn’t thought that probably, once I will say – “I have them all! :)”
Of course I’m talking about possible situation when some series or some set of models will be completely present in my collection…
One day this dream made a reality. Few months before (maybe 1 year? – I don’t remember exactly) I’ve bought a last member of my 111-mm models. It was a model named Carpenter. For the long months it was a my Unicorn-SAK, I’ve tried to find it everywhere… Moreover – once I won this knife on eBay auction, but unfortunatelly, parcel with this knife was lost on it’s way to the Ukraine. Second attempt was more lucky and I’ve decided that mission completed, my collection of 111-mm is full. But again, it was 1 year before, I didn’t supposed that when I will post info about this knife in my blog, Victorinox released a lot of new 111-models in 2017.

So, for now (2017-July) my collection still have a lot of missed knives… Seems, this story will be continued.

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