SIG Sauer P226 X-Five Final Edition

This is the gun SIG Sauer built to close the book on German P226 production, and they did not do it quietly. Look along the right side of the slide and you'll find a timeline cut in gold: Newington NH 2007, Eckernförde 1951, Neuhausen am Rheinfall 1853, Suhl 1751. Four cities, two and a half centuries, all engraved onto the flat of an X-Five slide. That timeline is the whole point of the Final Edition. It marks the end of P226 manufacture at Eckernförde, and SIG let the gun carry its own history on its sleeve.

The rest is pure X-Five competition hardware out of the Mastershop. You get the long, weight-forward slide with circular cocking serrations, the single-action trigger with adjustable take-up, an extended magazine release, and an adjustable target rear sight paired with a post front. The dust cover carries an accessory rail, and the muzzle end shows the heavy bull profile that keeps this pistol planted through recoil. Gold fill on the SIG SAUER and P226 markings plays against the deep black slide, with the X-FIVE logo standing out on the forward flat.

The grips are what give this one its character. They're a custom set of charcoal-finished wood with sharp checkering and a sculpted thumb shelf, carved with a flowing logo on each panel. The worn black-and-gray tone reads almost like distressed steel against the polished controls. Chambered in 9mm, built entirely at Eckernförde, and marked Made in Germany along the frame.

It arrives the way it left the Mastershop. The SIG Sauer Mastershop certificate is included, along with the factory test target, the X-Series operating manual, factory lubricant, and the original case. For the shooter who tracks where the P226 came from and where German production ended, this is the bookend piece.