New arrival Titanium Victorianox Inox Swiss Army 😍
I've just taken delivery of a new to me Victorianox Inox Swiss Army watch with a sandblasted titanium case in a cool satin grey finish.
This 43mm case watch feels great on the wrist. Its so light, but so chunky in styling...it actually wears smaller than the figures suggest.
It features a date complication of black numbers on white background at half past four, and a really nice logo emblazoned screw down crown, giving the watch a 200m dive rating.
It has this quirky red font 24hr inlay on the inner surface of the sapphire crystal. I don't mind it tbh, and it kinda compliments the second hand and the strap.
It arrived on a really nice 21mm Zuludiver nato strap, which I'll probably keep due to the Para regiment style colourway 👍🇬🇧.
The lume on the watch is supposed to be quite nice, and features the fully lumed Swiss Army knife logo at the 12. Will see if I can add a nice lume shot to this post tonight.
All things considered, for the price of £120 delivered (£600 RRP), I think this is a very aesthetically pleasing military styled and very much bomb proof watch. I know what my post-apocalyptic timepiece will be 100%.
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I think Victorinox are really underrated probably because they’re a little larger but I love them. Well done at getting one at that price it looks great.
“Inox”, which forms the last part of “Victorinox”, is the European term for stainless steel (inoxidizable, i.e., unrustable). Adding the Inox name to a titanium product doesn’t make a lot of sense, but perhaps there’s something going on here that I’m not aware of.
“Inox”, which forms the last part of “Victorinox”, is the European term for stainless steel (inoxidizable, i.e., unrustable). Adding the Inox name to a titanium product doesn’t make a lot of sense, but perhaps there’s something going on here that I’m not aware of.
Not quite Adrian...
"As clever wordplay on the last four letters of the Victorinox brand name — legendary Swiss manufacturer of Swiss army knives and luggages — the I.N.O.X. watch stands for a rather lengthy name: Impact Neutralizing Object for the X-tremes.".
Hence the 130 or so tests they carried out in the design process of this watch, including running over it with a military tank!!
😎👍
Review and history from The Urban Gentry...
https://youtu.be/88xRz5g2mfQ
https://youtu.be/YuPex9qEwKM
https://youtu.be/YuPex9qEwKM
Thank you for that information, @PhilMC . That may well be their modern marketing slogan, but as TGV explains at 3:22 of his video, the founder combined his mother’s name, Victoria, with Inox, the widely used term for stainless steel, as he started manufacturing cutlery.
Greetings from the colonies!
Nice strap