Bizarre Swiss Army Knife Winds Up In Guinness Record Book

It’s almost a cliché item, but now it’s also something else – a Guinness Book of World Records entry. If you’ve ever owned a Swiss Army knife, you know that it’s designed to do just about anything and everything. But you’ve probably never seen one like this.

Wenger North America, the company that makes the multi-purpose tool, has come out with a model so unique it’s been listed in the record books as the implement that has the “most functions on a penknife.” What can this latest incarnation of the historic item do that its predecessors can’t? Consider this: it boasts 87 tools and more than 110 different uses.

Among them: cleaning your cuticles, measuring a tire tread, spiffing up a golf club, adjusting a bicycle spoke, turning a screw, acting as a key ring, scaling a fish, working as a magnifying glass, grafting plants for gardeners or being employed as a toothpick – just to name a few. It also has a flashlight, a laser pointer, a golf shoe spike wrench (don’t ask), and special screwdrivers made specifically to adjust gunsights. We don’t quite know what might happen if you mix up the latter two.

The firm admits it went all out to make this blade fit the Guinness grade. “Basically, they took every implement they ever put in a Swiss Army knife and combined them in this one piece,” spokesperson Jennifer Voss relates.

But you’ll need big pockets both literally and figuratively if you want to tote this thing around. It’s 8.75X3.25 inches in size, weighs three pounds and costs a whopping US$1,200. Would anyone really want one of these monsters? Turns out somebody does.

They’ve only been on the market for about a year and so far the company has sold 450 of them. To see what else this remarkable tool can do, click here.

Or you can find more information from the Canadian distributor here.