If you are like me, you might have a variety of watches in your collection that span many years. For instance, my oldest Victorinox Swiss Army watch is currently from somewhere in the mid-1990s. Dating early Swiss Army watches can be a tricky affair because some of them did not have serial numbers and even if they did, the early model’s serials were not always accurately tied to the release year or manufacturing date. You can read more about finding the date of your Swiss Army watches in my article:ย How to Find the Manufacture Date of Victorinox Swiss Army Watches.
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One of my quests for the Watch Hunter site is to help fellow Victorinox Swiss Army watch collectors find out as much information as possible about their belovedย watches.ย Frequent visitors the Watch Hunter site might also notice a new Catalogs tab on the main navigation. This will be the future home for collected watch catalogs and manuals for several brands.
If I am being frank, Victorinox does not necessarily celebrate their past model releases. If they are not currently selling it, then finding information about a watch that they made can usually only be found by scouring the internet for old watch reviews, product releases, forum threads and maybe an old watch review article or video (if you are lucky). The farther you go back, the moreย difficult it is to find details about a watch.
You have to remember that the 1990s internet landscape consisted of flash sites and simple HTML sites, that have long since been upgraded. Paper catalogs were still king in those days, and I am not even sure if digital PDFs, as we know them, were prevalent or not. I simply don’t remember.
It has taken me a long time to track down a collection of Victorinox’s watch catalogs. They were hiding in the crevices of the internet, not wanting to be discovered. If I found one, I immediately downloaded it because the internet is a quickly changing dataย environment where content goes extinct on a daily basis. Some were only available in non-English languages, which was pretty cool to see. I was not able to find all the years, but I have included what I could.
The Victorinox Swiss Army catalogs were collected from the publically accessible locations on the internet, some of which may now be out of commission. They are provided here as a reference library for Swiss Army watch collectors. Watch Hunter is not affiliated with Victorinox Swiss Army, and all content within the PDF documents belong to Victorinox. Please use respectfully to learn more about your older model Victorinox Swiss Army watches. You will be amazed at what you might find. Enjoy!
