Buy a brand name, they said.
It costs more, but it's totally worth it in the long run, they said...

That box was kept closed, not open. This is btw a pretty common problem in the humid tropics. A lot of steel that may be labeled as "stainless" develops stains pretty quickly, once it gets here. Real Swiss army knives are holding up pretty well, everything else though...
#quality #tropics #humidity #rust