The Swiss Army Knife has become such a stenography for multifunctionality that companionship raise does - a - lot - of - stuff and nonsense wares will often say that their goods are the “ Swiss Army Knife ” of whatever category they ’re a part of . you could use the puppet to cut stuff , snip off stuff , uncork stuff , file stuff and nonsense , in some example download stuff .
But Victorinox , the party behind the far-famed gadget , is working on a Swiss Army Knife without the knife part .
“ We are in the early stages of evolve pocket tools without blade , ” a spokesperson for the companytold CNN . Though it wo n’t be discontinuing its bladed version , the company has been trying to compute out how to dish client in station — specificallyEnglandand some Asiatic countries — where knives are n’t as welcome a scoop sight than in other markets . The British government , for example , is considering Modern legislation on carry blade in public .
A worker sticks a picture of a Swiss army knife on a window of a Victorinox store in Zurich, SwitzerlandPhoto: Arnd Wiegmann (Reuters)
The Swiss Army Knifehas its rootsin 1880s Germany . Then the Swiss Karl Elsener took yield over the border . Soon a competitor emerged in the company Wenger , and for a while the Swiss politics cleave its orders for the tools between the two of them . Wenger called its version the “ real ” Swiss Army Knife , and Elsener ’s Victorinox called its rendering the “ original . ” The two company ended upmerging in 2005 .
Though 9/11 did a numeral on the society as pocket knives became much more scrutinized and policed in its aftermath , Victorinox and its knives have stick around . The party made its 500 millionth Swiss Army Knife in 2017 . Its most expensive edition , the$395 Swiss Champ XXL , has 73 features , including a fish scaler , pincer , and a wood sawing machine .
This article primitively appeared onQuartz .
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