Vintage Nippon Kogaku Binoculars

These beautiful Japanese Big Eye binoculars are as practical as they are elegant, with a far-reaching magnification. They are mounted to a polished aluminium tripod Superb working condition.

Nippon Kogaku (which later became Nikon) produced 15×80 binoculars during World War II.

They were designed primarily for the Imperial Japanese Navy, mounted on tripods for use on ships and coastal observation posts.

“Nippon Kogaku 15×80”, where from the from the late 1930s through the mid-1940s (WWII period). After the war, Nippon Kogaku continued optics production under Allied oversight, but the 15×80 naval types are strongly associated with wartime manufacture.