What I find interesting in that argument is this...... Swarovski had a binocular called the SLC HD. It wore green armoring with some black accents, and was considered to be one of the finest hunting binoculars available, and I was one of them. A couple of years ago now (I forget exactly)Swaro redesigned this binocular and called it just an SLC, with the exact same optics (still HD), redesigned armoring, a touch lighter, and some tweaks to the focus mechanism. All these improvements resulted in a price drop of several hundred $$$$$.
Nobody here at the 'fire had a word to say about that, that I'm aware of. I guess since it still wore a silver hawk emblem and had SWAROVSKI printed on the body, nobody wanted to second guess that. BTW, it is still one of the finest hunting binocs you can buy.
