BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="ceasar" data-source="post: 3514724" data-attributes="member: 26155">Tm,Some Leicas are made in Portugal and some are made in Germany and Leica has been making them both places for at least 24 years,  maybe more.  I have an old Leitz 7x42 Trinovid BA that says it was made in Portugal and its serial number puts its date of manufacture in the middle of 1982 according to GaryMH.  I have a Leica  Trinovid 7x42 BN which was made around 2000 in Germany and I have a Leica 8x42 Ultravid BL (Blackline)   which was made in Portugal about 8 years later and it is one of the classiest looking binoculars you will ever see!    I also have an old Leica R3 Camera with a 90mm F2 Summicron lens.  One of them was made in Portugal and the other in Canada; I forget which ones now.   (FWIW, I also have a Zeiss 8x20 Victory which was made in Hungary.)Everyone of them shows the same quality as if they were made in Germany in the Leica (or Zeiss) Plant. Bob</blockquote>