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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3272857" data-attributes="member: 85835">This binocular does sound great. A game changer, two thumbs up. Certainly has the favour of the reviewer and I'm pretty convinced just reading about it.Eyecups shouldn't be underestimated. Never normally a deal breaker for me but I do appreciate the nice smooth curved edge on my Kowa SV which fits very snugly against the eyebrow although they have given it a rubber sandpaper type finish and strangely I don't wish for it to wear off which it probably surely must but then I expect will be even more comfortable.I've been wondering if Hawke have been using something similar to the Questa with their coatings for the colour presentation. I see Hawke have a new badged version of the Sapphire selling at a higher price compared to the older one but they don't advertise field flatteners or any difference to the old badge model at the moment but probably only a matter of time although they did seem to abandon their Panorama model. I wonder does their new badged Sapphire have something similar to this Questa.Still waiting to get my next new Sapphire from Hawke so wondering what that will be like? Could go either way it seems judging by the last one but I still crave that great new colour presentation the last one had compared to my original early model and this new colour effect seems to have been a fairly recent addition. Maybe they have sent me the latest one but I think it's more likely an old stock version. Pity as I could then have cleared up any mystery about the higher price the of newer one being about £100 more expensive which seems a lot for just a badge change.</blockquote>

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