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The other version is the PPK/S rimfire variant, produced by Umarex (maker of airsoft guns) under license from Walther, and is made from a zinc alloy.
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FALSE!
That was an error featured exclusively on the American website based upon either a mistranslation or otherwise a disconnect between Walther Germany and Walther USA, perpetuated by elitist owners of vintage PPK(/S) which they paid hundreds of dollars more for.
In reality, the Walther PPK/S .22 is made of a proprietary alloy Walther uses for all of their modern rimfire pistols, which seems to be an aluminum alloy considering that it is identified as such on the product pages for the PPQ .22 and 1911 Rimfire.
The Walther P22 has (or at least had) a ZAMAK Slide, but other than that (assuming such is still the case) pretty much all of Walther's other rimfire pistols have aluminum alloy slides of some sort of proprietary composition which they aren't sharing, but seems to hold up just fine considering that there are literally zero reports of slides cracking on any of them.
Seriously, Google Search it if you want, you won't find a single unsubstantiated report of slide failure on the Walther PPK/S .22 or any other rimfire pistols made by Walther, save for old reports regarding the P22. (Heck, I've never even seen so much as a claim of it happening.)
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IMO, Walther has done serious damage to its reputation. Imagine if Colt re-released the Python as a zinc DA revolver.
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Funny that you should mention that for the following reasons...
1.) Walther currently produced a rimfire replica of the 1911 under license for Colt which is constructed from the same exact alloy as the PPK/S .22
2.) If you haven't already noticed, the new Python has been getting slammed lately with unsubstantiated reports of all sorts of issues.
Reproductions of older firearms are almost always met with reports of poor quality or reliability, especially those which vintage examples of command high prices. Care to guess why? Because the last thing that owners of vintage examples want is to have the desirability of their vintage firearms plummet due to reproductions hitting the market for less than the inflated value of their previously out-of-production vintage example.