First Mate dark blue

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A new Alox special run made by Victorinox in October 2013. It’s a First Mate in dark blue. Each knife is individually numbered on the main blade’s backside.

This special run comes in two color variants.
50 pieces have a silver emblem while the other 50 pieces have a black emblem.

Color comparison: 

The blue color used for these First Mates are very similar to the blue used on the oldsytle First Mate from 2011 and the Harvester from 2012. But even between the two new models you can see a little difference in the blue shade. See last picture.

 

Comparison Harvester - First Mate oldstyle - First Mate new

Pioneer 2223 gray

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A new special run from Victorinox. It’s a Pioneer 2223 also called Sea Pioneer.  This run consists of 50 pieces with gray scales and red shield and 50 pieces with gray scales with orange shield. This is the first Alox with an orange shield, except the Alox with orange scales.

Each knife is numbered on the main blade: 2013  nn/50.

A small lanyard in red respectively in orange is attached to the key ring of each knife.

The gray shade is a bit brighter than the gray from Harvester with black emblem.

 

Gray comparison with Harvester

 

 

 

Black Ice Limited Edition 2013

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In August 2013 Victorinox launched a Limited Edition called “Black Ice“. This edition consists of a Classic, a Spartan and a Trekker.

The tools of these three knives carry a black coating. The coating is not black but somewhat of a dark gray. It’s similar to the coating used on the handle of the multitool Spirit Road Tour edition and on some of Victorinox watches.

The handles from Classic and Spartan are regular cellidor scales in camo design. The Trekker carries Nylon camo scales.

Each knife has an orange lanyard attached to the ring and the Spartan and the Trekker carries a tweezers with an orange head.

It’s a quite small serie of 2’000 Classic, 1’723 Spartan and 1’000 Trekker and was sold out very fast after the launch.

 

Black Coating is similar to the multitool Spirit Road Tour edition
Spartan and Classic, not all liners are coated...
Comparison - black Alox - Wenger Black out - Black Ice - standard blade
Comparison: Black soldier - Black Ice - Standard
Comparison: Standard blade - Black Ice - Black soldier
Comparison: Black soldier - Black Ice - Standard
Comparison: Standard - Black Ice - Black
Handle comparison: Forester ARMEE - Black Ice Trekker - Black Soldier

 

Electrician DUO orange

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A new Alox model. It’s an Electrician DUO in orange. This tool combination is unique and it’s the first time Victorinox released this model. Basically it’s an Electrician but instaed of the awl this model carries a pruning blade. This model is the littel brother of the Electrician DUO plus released in 2011. It has a ring with an attached lanyard. Each knife is individually numbered on the electrician’s blade.

This special run comes in two color variants.
50 pieces have a red shield, a red arrow on the backside and a red lanyard attached to the ring.
The other 50 pieces have a black logo, a black arrow on the backside and a black lanyard attached to the ring.

Color comparison:

The orange color used for this Electrician DUO is a bit different from the orange used for other Alox. It’s similar to the shade of the orange Wilderness with black tools from 2010. It’s darker than the Electrician with red shield from 2012, but lighter than the Electrician’s Mate or the Electrician DUO plus.  See last pictures.

 

Electrician DUO and Electrician DUO plus
Color comparison
Orange Electrician