polispectral – Swiss knives info

English see below…

2017 hat Victorinox wieder Messer mit geschwärzten Klingen und Werkzeugen hergestellt. Bei einem Spartan wurde das Polispectral Verfahren eingesetzt um alle Metallteile zu “schwärzen”. Wobei die Farbe nicht schwarz, sondern eher dunkelgrau ist. Dieses Verfahren wurde bereits früher bei anderen Modellen verwendet. Zum Beispiel 2013 bei der Black Ice Collection.
Das Spartan von 2017 ist mit weissen oder schwarzen Schalen erhältlich. Beide sehen sehr cool aus.

In 2017 Victorinox again made knives with blackened blades and tools. The Polispectral process was applied to a Spartan to “darken” all metal parts. The color is not black but rather dark gray. This method was used earlier in other models. For example 2013 at the Black Ice Collection.
The Spartan of 2017 is available with white or black scales. Both look very cool.

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.