I can't think of anything but to see the warranty of both in print. My Monarchs just came with a 25 year warranty in the box, no life time. Mail order.
Okay, I've narrowed my choices for new binoculars to the Nikon Monarch 10x42 and the Celestron Noble 10x42. I need 'waterproof' and 'shock resistant' because I do a lot of my birding from a kayak. Any comments or advice would be appreciated.
Jim
Well, you can't go wrong there. You pick!
I can't think of anything but to see the warranty of both in print. My Monarchs just came with a 25 year warranty in the box, no life time. Mail order.
[QUOTE=Tero]Well, you can't go wrong there. You pick!
I can't think of anything but to see the warranty of both in print. My Monarchs just came with a 25 year warranty in the box, no life time. Mail order.[/QUOTE]
Tero, the 25 year warranty means you can send it in if it has any workmanship or other non-abuse caused porblems and they will fix it for free. As far as I know, all Nikon binoculars also come with the liftetime no-fault warranty. This means that you can send in and they will fix the binoc for 10 or 20 dollars or whatever it is no what what has happened to it. So really, you are protected by two warranties. The Nikon website should have info on the no-fault. Not sure about the Celestron, but they definitely have the no-fault warranty.
As far as differences between the Monarch and the Noble. The Monarch has a closer interpupillary diameter than the Noble. So if you have narrow set eyes, go for the Monarch. Also, I think the Celestrons may be more ruggedly built. At least my Noble 8x32 is.