Yeah...this has gone on far enough.
Sebs and Opies are apples and oranges. You keep your Opinel, and I'll keep my Sebenza.
Since the two knives are fairly incomparable apart from the aparent differences, the question of which is better doesn't seem like a question one can ask in any honesty. It seems likely to me that the foremost reason to start such an outrageous thread is either to troll, or start a flame war, or both.
If Borat can expose our prejudices with his outrageous characterizations, why is this question bringing up so much hate and discontent?
A comparison of the two knives isn't that difficult - sure, they are really different. But like I've asked more than once - just how does a super precision build standard make it a better slicer?
Really, for all the overblown hyperbole, all said and done, a piece of cheese or cardboard box is still cut up, Sebenza or Opinel. About the only difference is how long it might take before one or the other needs resharpening. A precise pivot has zero affect on cutting.
What does seem to be getting cut up are the artificial constructs of brand, social standing, and price. Someone has shot a holy cow.
Carrol Shelby did ok skewering Ferrari and Corvette on the race track with a 40 year old Brit car with a small Ford engine. He eventually was handed the FIA trophy for winning - and it was the small 289 that did it, not the idolized 427 (a marketing pig, overall.)
In this case, the sputtering and posturing just covers up the fact an Opinel can do just as good 96% of the time - and for the price, probably better. Box knives are about the only cheaper solution, but thousands of those get sold DAILY across America. Sebenzas, not so much.
My Timex keeps better time than the Eco Drive, especially because it keeps running as long as I change the battery every few years. The Eco Drive requires sunlight, careful Sunday wear, and doesn't even have day/date, stopwatch, or tachymeter. It's been far less useful.
Why do some revere luxury over usefulness, or a labor intensive, mechanically sophisticated construction - just to get less performance? I'll leave it to the Rolex wearing, Corvette driving, Sebenza cutting owners to explain, but don't expect many of us to buy into it.
We'll be passing you in something faster, getting there on time, and helping the ladies in the kitchen long before you make a staged arrival.
Don't forget the first line of the whole thread - and I've already repeated it - I should have posted this on April 1st.
Frankly it sounds made up. 
