Kowa BD42 Series 10x42 Roof Prism Binocular, new world class binoculars in box, retails over R10000

Kowa BD42 Series 10x42 Roof Prism Binocular, new.

Aluminum coated BaK-4 prisms with phase coatings to reduce reflections

All air-to-glass surfaces are fully multicoated

Profoundly short minimum focusing distance for birders

Durable rubber coating

Proprietary C3 prism coating

The Kowa Company has been around since 1894 and has in that time grown into becoming the 5th largest trading company in Japan. Now a multi-national company, Kowa have a presence in the world's three largest markets, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

The Electronics and Optics division of Kowa began producing quality spotting scopes in 1952 where they were designed to be used in shooting events and were the official spotting scope used in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

It was not long after this that they were discovered by bird watchers and became very popular throughout the world. With this success Kowa took much of this technology and applied it to other forms of optics including binoculars. Kowa binoculars are now some of the finest produced anywhere in the world.