Emtek Designer Brass Knobsets - Victoria Knob, Passage Set

The Victoria passage knobset works on doors from 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inches thick using the standard 2-1/8 inch bore prep, so a door already drilled for a common tubular knob takes it without redrilling. One exception on the rosette side: the STRETTO rosette needs a 1-1/4 inch diameter bore and a 2-hole door prep. If you are drilling fresh, that is a 2-1/8 inch cross bore and a 1 inch edge bore for the latch.

Yes, backset is a required choice on the Victoria knobset and it ships with the latch you pick. The standard latch is 2-3/8 inch backset; specify 2-3/4 inch if that is what your door is bored for. Measure from the door edge to the center of the 2-1/8 inch cross bore: 2-3/8 is typical on residential doors, 2-3/4 shows up on heavier or commercial-prepped openings. Get it wrong and the latch will not reach the knob spindle.

Passage means no lock at all. The Victoria passage set is non-keyed with no cylinder and no thumbturn, so both knobs always turn and the latch just holds the door closed. It is what you put on a hall, closet, pantry, or a laundry room door. For a bedroom or bathroom you want the privacy version with a thumbturn, and for an exterior or lockable office door you need a keyed entry set instead.

No. The Victoria knobset is a residential product, solid brass, and there is no ANSI grade behind it. For a commercial corridor, a leased office, or anywhere the opening sees real traffic, go to a graded cylindrical lock instead. The Schlage D10S is a Grade 1 heavy duty passage knob, the Corbin Russwin CK4310 is Grade 1 passage with a 1-3/8 to 2 inch door thickness range, and the Falcon W101 is a Grade 2 medium duty passage knob at a 2-3/4 inch backset. Use the Victoria where the look matters, inside a home or a high-end unit interior.

The Emtek Victoria passage set is non-keyed and has no locking function - it latches only. A bed or bath door needs a privacy set: the Baldwin Estate 5077 Bethpage privacy knob with R027 rose and the Baldwin Estate 5000 Baltimore privacy knob with 5148 rose sit in the same decorative brass family, while the Dexter C2000 Series privacy knob is a Grade 2 cylindrical ball knob and the Pamex FTF Baron privacy knob is a Grade 3 set for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors. Emtek also builds privacy in the same designs, and the STRETTO rosette in that case takes a 1-1/4 inch diameter bore with a two-hole door preparation for the thumbturn.

The Emtek Victoria knob is a non-keyed passage tubular set built for residential use in brass. Where an opening needs a graded commercial passage knob instead, the Dexter C2000 Series passage knob is a Grade 2 cylindrical ball knob, non-keyed, for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, and the Corbin Russwin CK4410 is a Grade 2 passage/closet cylindrical lock with a Global knob over the same 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch door range. Both latch without locking, the same way the Victoria passage set does, but they carry an ANSI grade and a plainer institutional knob shape rather than a brass designer knob with a choice of rosette.

The Emtek Victoria passage set specifies a door thickness of 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch. For a thicker leaf, the Falcon X101 is a Grade 1 heavy duty cylindrical passage knobset covering 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch doors, and the Corbin Russwin CK4310 is a Grade 1 passage/closet cylindrical lock with a Global knob for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors. Both hold the same latch-only passage function, so the door still pushes open from either side without a key.

The Emtek Victoria passage set is a working latchset - it ships complete with latch and strike plate and turns to retract the latch, and it fits a standard 2-1/8 inch cross bore. A dummy knob has no latch and no bore: the Schlage A170 single dummy trim, the BEST 6K Series single dummy trim, the Omnia 458/0 single dummy knob latchset and the Bravura Biloxi dummy knobset all mount as fixed pulls. Those suit an inactive leaf of a pair or a closet door held by a ball catch; they will not retract a latch, so they are not a substitute where the door needs to latch closed.

For an opening where the drawing calls for a fire rating on the lock, the Falcon W101 is a Grade 2 medium duty cylindrical knob lock with passage/closet latch function, a 2-3/4 inch backset and a fire rating, and the Falcon X101 is the Grade 1 heavy duty passage knobset with a fire rating for doors 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch. The Emtek Victoria is a residential brass passage set and is specified for interior doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch with a 2-3/8 inch or 2-3/4 inch backset.

It is sold as a complete set: both knobs, the rosettes you selected, the latch, and the strike plate. Nothing else is required to hang it on a correctly bored door beyond the mounting screws that come with the set. The latch faceplate is available in round corner or square corner, so match it to the mortise already cut in your door edge to avoid chiseling.

Three latch choices on the Victoria knobset. The standard latch is the conventional tubular latch. The 28 Degree Rotation Latch shortens the knob rotation needed to retract the latch, which is the lighter feel some people prefer. The CF Mechanism is the one to pick if you do not want screws showing: the rosettes have no exposed fasteners, and the 28 degree latch is included with it. Aesthetics drive that last choice more than function.

The Victoria knob can be ordered with any brass rosette Emtek offers, and there are ten shapes: #8, Lancaster, Oval, Quincy, Rectangular, Regular, Ribbon and Reed, Rope, Watford, and Wilshire. That is how you carry one rosette profile across every opening while changing knob or lever styles room to room. Keep in mind the STRETTO rosette carries a different bore requirement than the standard 2-1/8 inch prep.

Seven finishes: French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Two of those behave differently over time. Unlacquered brass has no coating and will patina with handling, which is the point of it, and Oil Rubbed Bronze is a living finish that wears at the high spots. Polished Brass Lifetime is the one that stays put. If you are standardizing a building, pick a plated finish rather than a living one so units installed a year apart still match.

A strike plate is included with the set, so you can replace what is in the jamb rather than fight it. If you are reusing the existing strike, match the latch faceplate corner: order round corner or square corner to suit the mortise cut in the door edge, and confirm the backset (2-3/8 or 2-3/4) matches the existing bore so the latch lines up on the same centerline as the old one.

No handing to specify. The Victoria is a passage knobset, both knobs turn, and there is no keyed or locking side to orient, so one part number covers a left or right hand door. What you do have to specify is backset and, if you want it, the door thickness. The latch itself is reversible for the door swing in the normal way for a tubular latch.

Where the decorative brass knob and choice of ten rosettes on the Emtek Victoria are not part of the spec, plainer passage knobs cover the same latch-only function: the Kwikset 200P Polo passage knob for interior hall and closet doors ships with a 6AL latch and RCS round corner strike, the Kwikset 200P-CP pairs a round corner adjustable latch with a round corner strike, the Pamex FTF Baron passage knob is Grade 3 for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors, and the Bravura Albany and Lynchburg round trim passage knobsets are Grade 2. All operate as passage sets, so the door latches without keying.

The Emtek Victoria passage knob is solid brass in the American Designer style, offered in finishes including Polished Brass - Lifetime (US3), Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A) and Satin Nickel (US15). Comparable decorative passage knobs include the Baldwin Estate 5011 Colonial passage knob with 5058 rose, the Baldwin Estate 5000 Baltimore knob passage lock with 5048 rose supplied with a 2-3/8 inch backset and full lip strike, and the Omnia 434/PA egg-shaped knob latchset in solid brass with a 3 inch projection. The Emtek differs in that the knob and the rosette are selected separately, from ten rosette patterns including Lancaster, Quincy, Rope and Ribbon and Reed, while the Baldwin and Omnia sets pair a knob with a fixed rose design.

The Emtek Victoria passage set is non-keyed. Where the same opening run includes a door that must key, keyed knob locks in the comparable range include the Kwikset 400P Polo keyed entry knob with 6AL latch and RCS strike, the Cal-Royal BER00 Grade 3 entrance/office knob lock with a Kwikset keyway, the Dexter C2000 Grade 2 entry/office ball knob, and the Corbin Russwin CK4851 entrance/office cylindrical lock with a conventional cylinder for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors. Those are separate designs from the Victoria knob, so a run mixing them will not match visually across the doors.

Functionally they do the same job - the Schlage D10S is a Grade 1 heavy duty cylindrical non-keyed passage latch with an Orbit knob, and the Emtek Victoria is a non-keyed passage set that fits a 2-1/8 inch cross bore with a 2-3/8 inch or 2-3/4 inch backset and ships with latch and strike plate. The difference is what shows on the door: the D10S is a plain heavy duty institutional knob, while the Victoria is brass in finishes such as Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26) and French Antique (US7), and can be ordered with a CF mechanism so the rosettes carry no exposed screws.

The Emtek Victoria passage knob latches only and does not lock. Where a door needs to close secured but open without a key from the inside, the Lockey 3830 is a mechanical keyless combination knob lock with an auto-locking passage function, fitting doors 1 3/16 inch to 2 inch. That is a code-entry mechanism rather than a decorative brass set, so it changes the look of the opening as well as the function.

Yes, split finish is an option when you order the Victoria knobset, so you can run one finish on the corridor side and another inside the room. Enter both finishes in the split finish field at checkout. Any of the seven finishes are on the table, from Unlacquered Brass to Polished Chrome. This is the usual fix when a hallway is standardized on one finish and the bedrooms or the kitchen are on another.