The familiar French pocket knife: an 8.5 cm stainless yatagan blade, a varnished beech handle, and Marcel Opinel’s ring that locks the blade open or closed.
Made in Savoie, the handle about 11 cm — the same shape Joseph Opinel drew in 1890.
France · Est. 1890
Savoy cutlery house. Joseph Opinel designed the folding pocket knife in Albiez-le-Vieux in 1890; the family still makes it in Chambéry.