Untill about 1999 Victorinox used a plain silver cross as logo on their Alox knives. In 2000 Victorinox changed to a new logo. It’s a curved wappen shield with silver contour with a silver cross in a red area.
Since then Victorinox produces their standard Alox model palette with silver Alox scales with the silver/red shield logo shown in the picture above. A few years ago Victorinox started producing Alox knives in many different colors. Most of these knives are special runs produced in a small quantity. Usually 50 – 100 pieces per run. They are produced mainly for collectors and knife enthusiasts.
The form of the Victorinox logo remains the same, but there are a few color variantions. Most of these special runs have the logo with silver contours and silver cross but the shield inside has the same color as the scales.
A US dealer (*) ordered some limited runs with a logo in the same color as the scales.
In January 2012 Victorinox produced the first time an Alox special run with black scales with the silver logo with red shield. Since then a few other colored Alox knives were produced with the silver logo with red area.
Another variation is a silver knive with a silver logo with grey contours.
In January 2013 Victorinox produced a few Alox models for a US dealer with copper color scales. These knives have a new logo color variation. The shield’s contour and cross have the same copper color as the scales and the shield inside is red.
I’m curious if there will be another shield color variation in the future.
Edited 30.12.2013: Some more Alox shield color variations…
(*) He doesn’t want his name published on my website.
Hello, I hope you can give some info about my curiosity. I observed a change in the basic shields on the grey alox knives recently. On a Pioneer from between 2000-2008 the red colour is really pleasant (orange red) and perfectly fits the inside of the shield logo / cross but on recent knives from 2021-2022 (Classic, Farmer, Farmer X) I saw that the coloring is misprinted with errors / gaps between colour fill and shield / cross outline, and the red colour is so reflective that from many angles is to dark and not even perceived as red. Have you observed this new colouring that is in my opinion much worse? The misprinting can also be seen in your example photos where the first from left has corect colour and print but the blue, copper and dark grey have misaligned print.
Thank you! Have a nice day, Michael A.
Hi Michael, I noticed this with the colored pieces but didn’t pay much attention to it.
It thought this was caused by an inattentive employee or it was made on a monday 😉
Regards Martin