A very nice blue Cadet with red shield. This is a new special run made by Victorinox in April 2013. As usual only 50 pieces were made and all knives are numbered.
The blue shade is a bit different from other Alox knives. It’s a bit darker than the regular blue Cadet, but a bit brighter than the special run darkblue Cadet from 2011.
Some pictures below show the different blue shades.
A green Alox Pioneer with red shield is the new special run made by Victorinox in March 2013. This special run counts 50 numbered pieces. It fits perfectly together with the green red shielded Cadet and Bantam from Denmark, which are described in my last post.
Three nice and special Alox knives were produced for Victorinox Denmark. Until now these knives are available only in Denmark. The special about these knives is the color combination. The three models Cadet, Bantam and Classic are available in green with red shield and in black with red shield. Colored Alox with red shield is not very common, especially for 84 mm and 58 mm models.
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.