ArcSaber 10 Pearl White
Model ARC-10PW
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ArcSaber 10 Pearl White: Yonex’s white return of its 2008 control flagship
The ArcSaber 10, back in white
Five years after the ArcSaber 11 took over its flagship slot, the ArcSaber 10 came back in a color it had never worn. Yonex USA’s February 2019 catalog printed it as “ARCSABER 10 MADE IN JAPAN”, item code ARC10PW, color Pearl White, at a $260 launch price, the same figure the catalog gave the ArcSaber 11 beside it. The original of 2008 was red, and Yonex’s global product page still listed Red as its only color in late 2012. The Pearl White is a re-release of that frame, not a new design, and Yonex sold it in one color and one weight class.
The 2008 frame, documented again
Retail came first. A US retailer had a product page for the Pearl White by August 2018, billing it as “Re-Released for the Die Hard” with “Limited Qty Available” and made in Japan. Yonex USA added an ArcSaber 10 to its ArcSaber list between late November 2018 and New Year 2019, beside the ArcSaber 11, FB and 6FL, and the 2019 catalog gave the full sheet. The materials match the original’s: an H.M. Graphite frame with CS Carbon Nanotube and Super HMG, and an H.M. Graphite shaft with Ultra PEF, as Yonex listed for the red ArcSaber 10 in 2012. Yonex rated the Pearl White Stiff and offered it in 3U (average 88 g) with a G5 grip, 10 mm longer than a standard-length racquet. Yonex recommends 19–24 lb. The catalog prints no balance for it.
No player of its own
Yonex attached no player to the Pearl White, and no professional is documented using it. The frame’s player history belongs to the red original, which Yonex listed as Taufik Hidayat’s racquet by December 2008 and which Peter Gade is widely reported to have used before his own 2010 edition. That story, and what the record does and does not show, is told in the ArcSaber 10 article.
Where it sits in the ArcSaber 10 family
The ArcSaber 10 family is a set of paint schemes on one frame. The red original ran from 2008 until Yonex Japan dropped it in 2012. A white-and-champagne-gold Peter Gade edition arrived in 2010 and a mostly black Premium reached Asian dealers in 2012. After the frame left the catalog, a red edition bearing Taufik Hidayat’s name was on sale by October 2015 and a white Legend Vision edition for Peter Gade followed by late 2016. The Pearl White came next, and the red ArcSaber 10 N appeared in retail listings from about 2019. White alone does not identify the Pearl White: both white Gade editions are named for him, while Yonex’s catalog names this one by its color alone. Yonex documented no second color, weight class or grip for it.
A record still empty
No verified sales of the Pearl White are recorded yet. Its documented launch price is Yonex USA’s $260 from the 2019 catalog. Identification is the main difficulty for anyone tracking the model. Listing titles often shorten it to “ArcSaber 10 White”, which can also describe either Gade edition, and some retail titles give only the generic code ARC10. Yonex USA’s own ArcSaber 10 product page added to the confusion: through October 2020 it still showed the 2012 specification, Red in 3U and 2U, while the series list and the catalog offered the Pearl White. A listing should show the color, the graphics and the labels before it is compared with any other ArcSaber 10.
Look-alikes before fakes
No counterfeit specific to the Pearl White is documented, but the ArcSaber 10 was a counterfeit target from its first years, as the ArcSaber 10 article describes. For this edition the likelier problem is a misdescribed racquet: a Gade edition sold as a Pearl White, or the reverse, or an older white frame given a newer story. Because the Pearl White was made in Japan and sold new into 2020, a sealed example is plausible, and a wrapper alone proves neither its age nor its edition.
A late chapter for the frame
The Pearl White shows how long the ArcSaber 10 outlived its catalog slot. Yonex Japan dropped the frame in 2012, yet Yonex USA sold a new, Made-in-Japan ArcSaber 10 in 2019 and still listed it in May 2020; no later Yonex listing is documented. For a player, it offers the original frame’s documented construction in a newer finish. For a collector, its identity is clearer than that of most ArcSaber 10s, because Yonex printed its item code, color and specification, though it has no player link and Yonex has published no production figure.
Check the racquet against Yonex USA’s 2019 sheet: Made in Japan, Stiff, 3U (average 88 g) with a G5 grip, and Yonex’s recommended 19–24 lb. Yonex’s color name is Pearl White and its item code ARC10PW, so compare any code on the label or sleeve with that. Yonex documented no 2U or 4U Pearl White and no second color. A white ArcSaber 10 carrying Peter Gade’s name or signature is one of the Gade editions, not this one. The general ArcSaber 10 checks in the base article also apply: a serial number engraved into the frame, a hologram that is hard to peel and a cleanly made green butt cap.
Look for a complete example whose color, grip and labels match Yonex’s 2019 specification, with clear photographs of the serial number and hologram. Be careful with listings titled only “ArcSaber 10 White”, which may be a Gade edition, and with any seller’s date earlier than 2018. Because the run was sold new into 2020, unused examples exist, so correct identification and condition matter more than an unopened wrapper.