About The Victorinox Swiss Army Knife - Swiss Army Pocket Knife Reviews

The Victorinox swiss army knife has been a popular pocket knife for over 100 years for all types of outdoor activities including camping, hiking and hunting.

Is there anyone alive who doesn't know what a Swiss Army Pocket Knife is? The distinctive red color of the Swiss army knife is something that virtually anyone, outdoors-person or not, will recognize nearly instantly upon seeing it.

Victorinox the king of Swiss Army knives was the first of its kind available.

The Swiss Army Knife, as most of you will know, is a kind of pocket knife that offers you multiple functions and has such a wide array of different parts that you can, quite literally, perform any function at all that you may want with it.

The Victorinox Company

It was 1891 when the owner of a company that made surgical steel discovered that the knives which were given out to the Swiss Army were actually made, not in Switzerland but in Germany.

Being someone who totally believed in national pride, Carl Elsener decided that he was the one who should change that. Later that same year he took over producing the Modell 1890, moving the factory for that well known knife to Iowa.

After five years of trying, Elsener found a way to put different blades on each side of the handle and to use a special type of spring that would hold thsoe blades in place and permit them to be released when necessary.

All of these things were serious innovation during that time span. The fact that he could add so many tools to both sides of the Swiss army pocket knife struck people as literally amazing. He could add more than two times the normal number of features and even place scissors and other things in the knife.

He added two decorations to the knife, that same shield and cross that is featured on the red handles today. His mother had been called Victoria and in her honor, he named his new knife and the company that sold it Victorinox. The Victorinox Swiss Army Knife was born. More about Swiss Army Knife History is found here

Since those early days, Victorinox has come a long way. No longer do we have just one Swiss Army pocket knife available to us, but a wide array of styles, sizes, and choices. The Swiss Army knife isn't just for the Swiss Army, for the outdoors person or for the fisherman or hunter. In fact it's a helpful tool that literally anyone could use no matter what they do for a living and certainly a tool that no outdoors person would dream of being without.

Popular Swiss Army Pocket Knife Models

We took a review of the most popular Swiss army knives and decided to include these models in the review.

Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Classic

Small, simple and the most handy knife that you will ever own the Swiss Army Classic knife by the Victorinox company is a mid-sized knife that folds to an amazing 3 inches long yet gives you strength without bulk. Throw away your pocket tool set, the Swiss Army Classic can quite literally replace it and then some.

The classic is equipped with a keychain/keyring in order to keep it within easy reach and does double duty as a keychain while bringing you all the power of the Victorinox Swiss Army knife types of larger sizes.

Included in this minute beauty are tweezers, toothpick, small knife blades, scissors, nail files, screw driver heads and myriad other things that you may not ever need, but have them if you do.

Overall Ratings

The Swiss Army Pocket Knife Classic has been called a tiny titan among pocket knives and the reality is that its simply the best and most useful small pocket knife that you're ever going to own.

It's lightweight, it's useful and its something that any hiker or camper should never be without. The Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Classic is also available to you in that classic red color that we all recognize, but is also available, for the fashion conscious pocket knife owner, in more than twenty other colors these days.

The Victorinox Swiss Army Champion Plus

One of the favored pocket knives of the outdoor enthusiast or the survivalist is the Champion plus Swiss Army Knife. Available in multiple colors, not just the age old easily known red that it always came in, the Swiss Army Champion plus is a knife that goes anywhere and offers a multitude of function.

From cutting sticks, sharpening them, to the toothpick, the scissors, the screw driver, the small serrated blade that is useful in cutting down small saplings, right down to the tweezers that will help you get the splinters out when you are all done messing with that hot dog roasting stick, the Victorinox champion plus is at home in any situation.

The array of accessories that you can add to your Swiss Army Champion Plus are also a benefit to you. You might decide that you need that water proofed pouch to carry yours, or the black leather belt pouch to pack it along. Inside the Swiss Army Champion plus you're going to find even more than you thought possible to pack into one thin knife.

The Champion plus brings you the usual things that we are accustomed to in the Swiss Army knife and tosses in a fish hook remover, a reamer and a punch tool, a can opener, a fish scaler and so much more. At about four and a half inches long, that's a lot of power in one small knife.

The Swiss Army Champion plus pocket knife is synonymous with quality and amazing versatility.

Overall Ratings

Victorinox Swiss Champ Pocket Knife

The word Champ isn't one that we liked to see tossed about lightly with regard to a product, and it's not lightly used with the Victorinox Swiss Champ Pocket Knife. At just three and one half inches long, the small champ packs a big bang when it comes to offering you all that you need in the outdoors world.

The same tools that you're accustomed to in the larger Victorinox Swiss Army Knife come to you in a smaller, more compact version with a lot of strength, a lot of meat, and not much bulk or weight. Throw it in a jacket pocket and forget it, until you need it. The Bottle opener, corkscrew, tweezers, toothpick, wire cutters, wood saws, and even a magnifying glass will be doing duty instantly. Truly an appropriate name for the small Swiss army pocket knife with a lot of power.

Overall Ratings

Conclusion

As you can see, Victorinox company has come a long way since their inception, but rather than moving toward a lower quality, lower cost product, the Swiss Army Pocket Knife manufacturer has kept a solid value and a great product alive and well for outdoors men and women all over the world.

The above models reviewed all receive high ratings in consumer reviews, with 100s of types it can become tricky to choose, but all Swiss army knives perform, so we are sure there is one out there for most outdoor enthusiasts .

Other Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Models