Talk:Victorinox

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"The Swiss Army knife is the product that has been the certerpiece of Victorinox's business"

I think we should distinguish between real army knives (the model used by the Swiss military, called Soldier by Victorinox) and all the variants which are commonly called SAK, but are not an official military supply in Switzerland. Apokrif 18:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone in the know add Victorinox in the International Phonetic Alphabet?[edit]

--Greasysteve13 02:04, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Champion[edit]

The flagship model of Victorinox, the SwissChamp, is in the New York Museum of Modern Art's Permanent Design Collection.

MoMA has a Champion (the forerunner of the SwissChamp) in its Permanent Design Collection.

s.beat[edit]

Why is the Victorinox s.beat music player not mentioned? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

is no longer produced --Xyox (talk) 20:23, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ownership and management[edit]

Who owns Victorinox? Is it a family-owned company or a publicly-traded one? Who is the CEO? --JHP (talk) 03:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i have fixd this --Xyox (talk) 15:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More info here[edit]

Check out this story of the knife and company, from the BBC: From humble tool to global icon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.76.175.168 (talk) 06:32, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Swisstool[edit]

I think there should be a separate page for the swisstool since it is a significantly different product from the normal swiss army knife. Michaeljuan (talk) 04:54, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Original company name?[edit]

The following implies that the company was not originally known as Victorinox:

The company was founded in 1884. Since 1891, the company has delivered knives to the Swiss army. Their famous emblem—a cross in a shield—has been used by Victorinox since 1909. That year, the mother of founder Karl Elsener died and he named the company "Victoria" in her honour. In 1921, with the introduction of "inox" (ab. for acier inoxydable, the French term for stainless steel) into their products, the brand and name of the company became the present "Victorinox" ("Victoria"+"Inox").

Perhaps the article should mention what the first company name was? 81.191.184.223 (talk) 09:39, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Computer Storage Devices Category[edit]

Anyone have any idea why this is in the "Computer Storage Devices" category? AJAlbert (talk) 03:52, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Probably because some enthusiast noted that at least one pocket knife comes with a USB drive and so concludes that these are an important addition to the category of mass storage devices. Took it out, till the enthusiast adds it back in again. --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:31, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Origins of Victorinox in Czechia?[edit]

Some Czech sources claim that the grandfather of Karl Elsener, the founder of Victorinox, born in Switzerland, was a then very famous cutler and entrepreneur Ignaz Rösler from Nixdorf in Bohemia (today Mikulášovice in Czechia).. in the successor factory called Mikov s. r. o. (successor to Rössler cutlery) famous knives have been produced until today .

see: [1]http://www.kamkam.eu/clanok/261/viete-kde-sa-zrodil-legendarny-nozik-rybicka and [2]http://www.mistopis.eu/mistopiscr/sever/sluknovsko/mikulasovice/mikulasovice.htm Iarostgo (talk) 13:57, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]