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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3246329" data-attributes="member: 109211">B and othersI don't claim to be an expert on warranties but one of the reasons warranties are less than 'lifetime' in Europe is that to qualify as a warranty in compliance with the legislation its my understanding that a manufacturer has to stock parts of the original design. Thus it isn't considered to be a compliant warranty if the manufacturer only stocks for example, later lenses with upgraded coatings or later focusing components made from tougher material. The spare parts have got to be the same as in the binocular as originally manufactured. This penalises manufacturers who upgrade components from year to year.Check out alpha warranties a bit more: Zeiss offers lifetime transferable on SF for example and Swaro lifetime on the optical system of EL as another example.Lee</blockquote>