Hi Knights,
I thought we had better get the Alox Wiki page updated with current availability - Following on from NeleDo's fabulous posters of course - and in line with the other 'size' summary pages.
So I checked the Vic site and they now only have five 93mm Alox models there - Which I have reflected on the page
Does that mean the Electrician, Pruner (SA 2) and Rancher were withdrawn?
Would be really surprised about the Electrician - As that blade is completely unique in the Vic range and I thought was always pretty popular.
I know we have had the problem in the past when, for some strange reason, Vic do not show all current models on their website
- Although I thought that had been fixed - or at least has been better in the last couple of years.
It does not help that the current catalogue displayed on this site is only from 2017
Any of you folk with good Vic connections got any intel for us
Thanks all
I had a post about this, based on VicSpain video (YouTube) The Rancher was discontinued in 2021. (
https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,86517.0.html )
Then I rectified it because I "met" a retailer (Swiss retailer) of Victorinox, She has been selling Victorinox knives (and only that) for 15 years. I asked another retailer the same question.
Both told me it's nonsense about all these models being discontinued, also about the list that Victorinox manufacturer sends to every retailer with discontinued model for the new comming year (source was VicSpain).
Here the post where I rectified :
https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,86517.msg2211538.html#msg2211538 Both retailers told me the only way they know for discontinued models is via invoices where there is a note "discontinued model".
The first retailer gave me her opinion concerning the models I asked her about (which is in the post where I rectified) :
- Classic red transluscent : I doubt it!
- Classic blue transluscent : I doubt it!
- SwissLite : Possible!
- Midnight Manager : Possible!
- Every model "@work" : Possible!
- Traveller : This is more likely!
- Traveller Lite : This is more likely!
- Expedition Lite (Expedition kit) : Discontinued september 2020!
- Spartan Lite : Possible!
- Swiss Champ XAVT : Possible!
- Swiss Army 6 (Rancher) : It's more likely (we've been talking about it for 5 years!)
(I asked her about elctrician too and she doubt it)
So this is two different sources VicSpain and the retailers, so now anyone is free to trust whom they want.
I think retailers are a reliable source and the only one that is threatened to be discontinued is Rancher based on what she said but isn't yet apparently (maybe won't).
Based on any sources anyway Electrician and Pruner aren't discontinued, so...
Another important information from the retailers the official Victorinox website isn't the manufacturer Victorinox.
It's a retailer like the others. They are just allowed to use the name "Victorinox" and take care of sales worldwide (we only see that in Switzerland). It's a totally different company.
So I don't think items being absent on the Victorinox website necessarily means it was discontinued (enven though VicSpain suggested this too).