New Kowa TSN-663M scopes (1 Viewer)

It appears that Kowa are bringing out a new version of their 663 and 664 scopes, to be known as TSN-663M. Details are rather scant, though a few examples are already showing up on Ebay and Japanese websites. Apparently, they will be released early in 2015.

From what I can gather, in colour the scopes will look very like the 883. I imagine that optically there may not be many differences with the earlier version. If the 'M' suffix is similar to the situation with the 823, then I would guess that what has changed has been a strengthening of the body materials used.

There's also apparently going to be a new 20-60x zoom eyepiece, the TSE-59B (c. 339 euros). Some details on Binomania:
http://www.binomania.it/phpBB3/view...binomania.it/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=6481

Interesting to see what happens with this!

http://www.kowa-prominar.ne.jp/news/2014/1104-1.html

Seems to be a colour change as well as adding a new water and oil repellent K coating to the objective

objective lens outer surface to adopt an excellent KR coating to water-repellent oil repellent performance, achieve high it is difficult dirt maintenance
Can't find much on the the new eyepiece though.

interesting, I guess we will see repellent KR-coating on the top-of-the line kowa-models also soon,

Yes, interesting, Hope the new zoom is a wide angle, that would be a real advance for the small Kowa.

Grando said:

There's also apparently going to be a new 20-60x zoom eyepiece, the TSE-59B (c. 339 euros). Some details on Binomania:
http://www.binomania.it/phpBB3/view...binomania.it/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=6481

Interesting to see what happens with this!

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Any more news on that new zoom (TSE 59B)?

can't find anything on kowas web-pages about this zoom,
and in the PDF for the new 660M scopes it's the old that is displayed.

Could it be a mixup with this?

http://www.amazon.com/Kowa-TSE-Z9B-Eyepiece-TSN-600-Spotting/dp/B000J42YJW


Price for the 660M seems to be in the range of the Swaro ATS65 but,
If the 663M is to compete, a new WA zoom is needed, is my opinion.
The 30xW is nice though.

Yes, I was searching the other day and also wondered whether this was a typo and actually referring to the old 20-60 zoom... Agree too though that the 30x is great.