are there made in China Victorinox?
or are all Victorinox Swiss made?
The original ones are swiss made, but I bet there’s a ton of illegal china made copies out there!
Genuine Victorinox is all made in switzerland. Most all replicas are pretty trashy, but there is a beijing olympic swisscard clone with “opera mask” that’s pretty decent.
Please enjoy your time here, kokkionglow!
if you saw how well thought out and how tight the tolerances are on a real one youd probably just bite the bullet n drop the cash on the real one. i saw the victorinox megafactory episode and they compared some various grade imitators. no comparison.
In addition Victorinox gives a great warranty to all their products, if something would ever break. But that won’t happen! 
My Swiss Knife has never let me down in the past 10+ years . . .
Half a year ago, I sent them my sister's Swiss army knife for a complete overhaul. It was probably 25 years old and a total mess.
They didn't even bother and sent me a new one instead, no charge. Awesome.
And this is why Victorinox knives aren't expensive at all: No matter what you do to them, you will have them for your lifetime.
Impressive testimonial.
Yes, I admit I'm a fan 
Ever since my dad bought me first SAK when I was 12.
With which shipping option did you ship it and where to?
I guess you had to ship it to Shweiz, Dtsch. Post Großbrief International (3.45€)?
For this money you could almost get a brand-new copy since the Vinox market is highly competitve, especially in Deutchland.
Nope, they have a distribution center in germany near the swiss border.
Anyway, in the links you provided I don't see a SAK for anywhere near 3.45, so I somehow miss your point...
Can I get a link to that?
If you want a swiss army knife, there are two companies, which you can choose. Victorinox or Wenger.
Victorinox bought Wenger a few years ago, but both have different knives series.
Victorinox is slight better build quality, especially the plastic covers, but wenger has some design elements which are slightly better like toothpick/tweezer pull from the inside and screwdriver/file instead of backup blade…
I have quite a few samples of each.
I agree, the backup blade isn't the most useful on the Victorinox knives. But there are some models that have a nailfile instead, like the Sportsman or the Cadet.
I’m not sure how it exactly works, but i know for sure that to qualify for “Swiss made” it’s a matter of a certain percentage. A certain number/ratio of the components must be made/assembled in Switzerland. So, depending on how it’s done, you could actually get “real” Victorinox components in a fake chinese knife, because i don’t think they’re not outsourcing some parts, as i don’t think the chinese oem factory wouldn’t have some extra batches of those parts laying somewhere around. Of course, it wouldn’t make the fake knife necessarily a good one.
Bought mine in 1980s in Tenerife along with my TAG Chrono.Has the tooth pick and tweezers on the side/end.The TAG watch broke down on a service about 10years ago,they say it seezed through lack of use.Its a NO NO to carry any knife in the UK,but when we go anywher other than shopping,its in my pocket.Often wondered how many miles its traveled in nearly 25-30 years.I have another one thats older than the Hills,more basic model.Chose it out my Grandads stuff when he passed,its battered and scratched,but works a treat.
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Victorinox doesn’t outsource AFAIK.
By the way, here's a video about the manufacturing process of Victorinox knives. It is basically a commercial, but nonetheless quite interesting to watch.
