Since the mid-1980s, the Italian company Ior Valdada Optic has been making super high-quality binoculars. Together with the company CARL ZEISS, IOR supplied military optics to many eastern European armies, Warsaw Pact, e.g. Romania. The IOR 7 x 40 has a metal housing, the lenses have T3 magnesium fluoride, anti-light permeability, bak4 porro prism, waterproof and with nitrogen filling against condensation on the lenses. These binoculars also have a fold-out IR FILTER, in the left lens (not present in the normal versions) The right lens contains the so-called strichplatte, cross for determining distance. The field of view is no less than 148 m (wide image). Super sharp binoculars, either for use or for collection.