Victorinox Tourist Knives

ColoSwiss · **on:** July 21, 2013, 11:31:05 PM

In recent years Victorinox has offered tourist knives with scenes of landscapes and cities on the handles. Most of the actual knives are Spartans or Climbers. Some of the knives are intended for commercial sale; other are limited editions for special events.

To start off with here are a series of Swiss Climbers. Most of them are still available from Swiss-Knife in Lausanne. In addition to these there are series of knives done for the Glarner region of Switzerland. Wayne has one of those.

http://www.swiss-knife.com/en/swiss-army-knives/victorinox/climber-city-edition.html

ColoSwiss · **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:34:31 PM

France has a series of Spartans. Most of these are available from prix canon.

http://stores.ebay.com/PrixCanon?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

ColoSwiss · **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:38:49 PM

Austria has had three tourist Vics, for Salzburg, Vienna, and Linz. The Linz and several other Austrian knives (Mozart, etc.) are still available from Pizzini.

http://www.pizzini.at/shop/contents/en-us/d24_schweizermesser-standard-swissknives.html

ColoSwiss · **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:41:30 PM

The German knives are a mix of Spartans and Climbers, and are rather erratically available. The Nueschwanstein one is available from the castle online gift shop.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:45:28 PM

The Holland ones are Climbers and available from the Old Man in Amsterdam.

http://hardware.theoldman.com/index.php?module=shop&shopID=2&buttonID=53&on_sale=0&categoryID=24&manufacturerID=102&pricefilter_value=0&skip=12

ColoSwiss · **Reply #5 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:48:01 PM

The Irish knives are Spartans. They don't appear to be currently available. In addition to the ones shown, ads show a church. However I've never seen it for sale.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #6 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:49:54 PM

Around 20 Argentine knives were offered. However Argentine postal regulations and monetary restrictions make them very difficult to get.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:51:20 PM

The Taiwan knives are available there, and occasionally show up on ebay.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #8 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:54:34 PM

In addition to the knives mentioned above, there are two tourist knives for Hungary. However I've never been able to navigate any of the Hungarian knife dealer web sites. There is also a knife for Andorra. Once saw an ad for a Mexican knife, with a Mayan pyramid on it, but have never found a dealer listing it.

RamoN · **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2013, 11:54:55 PM

Quote from: ColoSwiss on July 21, 2013, 11:49:54 PM

Around 20 Argentine knives were offered. However Argentine postal regulations and monetary restrictions make them very difficult to get.

Here in argentina there are a total of 17 models i know of. As i dont currently own any i couldnt get great pictures.

All of them:

Some are more common than others and a couple are very hard to get even here.

basilio · **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2013, 12:09:18 AM

Very nice collections here!

NG VI · **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2013, 07:12:19 AM

ColoSwiss and RamoN have some killer collections!

Ross · **Reply #12 on:** July 22, 2013, 07:50:33 AM

great post - nice to see all of these!

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gw8433 · **Reply #13 on:** July 22, 2013, 04:13:49 PM

nice~

RamoN · **Reply #14 on:** July 22, 2013, 05:20:25 PM

Quote from: NG VI on July 22, 2013, 07:12:19 AM

ColoSwiss and RamoN have some killer collections!

Yeah unfortunately had

i had to sell almost all of them a while ago due to needing the money and thought that i always could get them again but its not so easy now. Hope to get it back in shape soon.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #15 on:** July 23, 2013, 02:25:26 AM

If anyone's interested Messer Ferrari still has some of the limited Glarner series knives. They won't ship to the US; don't know where they will ship.

http://www.messer-ferrari.ch

ColoSwiss · **Reply #16 on:** September 10, 2013, 04:55:09 AM

As mentioned above, a knife dealer called Messer Ferrari ordered a number of scenic knives for the Glarnerland region of eastern Switzerland. There are over a dozen different images available on an assortment of Huntmans, Campers and Climbers. Some of the images are also available on Classics, and on special order, on Champions.

Ferrari doesn't ship outside of Switzerland. However one of our Swiss members was nice enough to pick up a batch of the Garner knives for me. Thanks again Martin, for a great-looking bunch of knives!

ColoSwiss · **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2014, 11:35:17 PM

Finally managed to pick up the Hungarian Scenic Climbers. Also a Climber with the Hungarian crest. Many thanks to Zoltan!

Caranthanus · **Reply #18 on:** March 01, 2014, 01:16:00 AM

Great collection

and the world's cities offers all the potential to become xxxxxxxlarge collection

borgwarrior · **Reply #19 on:** March 03, 2014, 12:59:46 PM

Quote from: ColoSwiss on February 28, 2014, 11:35:17 PM

Finally managed to pick up the Hungarian Scenic Climbers. Also a Climber with the Hungarian crest. Many thanks to Zoltan!

papercut · **Reply #20 on:** March 03, 2014, 02:30:59 PM

If anyone needs the Taiwan ones drop me a line..I think they are available.still.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #21 on:** March 29, 2014, 11:38:23 PM

Found another Scenic knife for Heidelberg, Germany.

"Drink! Drink! Drink to eyes as bright as the stars that shine down on me!"

singleshot03 · **Reply #22 on:** April 06, 2014, 06:24:25 PM

Great collections of knives. One more reason to go visit those places

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ColoSwiss · **Reply #23 on:** January 13, 2015, 11:52:08 PM

Picked up another of the Scenic knives, this one a painted scene of Rothenburg, Germany.

kmanct3 · **Reply #24 on:** January 14, 2015, 12:35:25 AM

I love every one of them

ColoSwiss · **Reply #25 on:** April 10, 2015, 11:00:54 PM

Just in from Germany, a Spartan Scenic knife for Munich Oktoberfest.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #26 on:** April 30, 2015, 09:49:49 PM

Here's a Scenic Climber for Santis, a mountain in north-eastern Switzerland.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #27 on:** July 10, 2015, 10:48:30 PM

Just in by way of Hungary, a Scenic Climber for Graz, Austria.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #28 on:** July 25, 2015, 12:05:59 AM

Just received a bunch of Swiss scenic knives, Climbers and Campers. Castles, restaurants, and plenty of pretty scenery. If the Schilthorn looks vaguely familiar, think back to Blofeld's lair in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".

edursr · **Reply #29 on:** July 26, 2015, 01:16:03 AM

I really like those models too... always try to buy some when I travel...

I got some in Portugal this year... and Andorra...

the others I got last year

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