Thanks for the replies above. I went ahead with Perceval 9.47. Waited for a while and caught a discount on Perceval's new website, so I'm happy. Went with 3 colours for a bit of a mix and match. Looking at them in person, I might prefer swapping the sky blue with the green for this combo, but it's sitll nice. Took 3 weeks for the knives to be shipped out, but they came quickly once they were shipped.
It wasn't clear (to me) on their website, but the storage box is made of a wood insert, and a sort of thick laminated card board (or wood?) exterior. Different from the orange box I've been seeing, but still very nice (certainly more neutral).
@parbaked - I noticed the logo has been changed from the sword logo on your 888 to a simple "P." on my 9.47 (unless it's different across models/because you have the wooden handle). I think I would've preferred the sword for a bit more of a classic look.
Olive wood is beautiful but the price was getting a bit too high for me. I like the charm of their soft pastel colours too. Here's a few photos and the first meal I've used them for to celebrate their arrival. They cut buttery smooth right out the box. I like the weighting of them and the fact that the metal tang do marginally come out more than the plastic so when you put the knives together, you can hear the solid metal clang between knives rather than the sound of plastic.
I'll need to learn sharpening in due course (pointers/suggestions welcome).
When washing and drying them, I noticed some dark oil (?) getting rubbed off from the 9.47 engraving. Not sure if that's normal?
