About Deutsche Optik
Founded in 1999. Field-ready ever since.
Deutsche Optik began its long history selling refurbished military binoculars, optical devices, and precision instruments from around the world. Today, as an employee-owned business, we’ve evolved beyond our military-surplus roots to focus on equipping adventurers and outdoor enthusiasts with the highest-quality optics, survival gear, and precision instruments.
Gear You Can Trust When It Counts
What Drives Us
Exceptional selection for the outdoors: We remain steadfast in curating gear tailored to the field—reliable, serviceable, and ready for hard use.
Quality, durability, innovation: We choose tools that enhance your time outside and uphold our tradition of build quality and long service life.
Trusted guidance: Real answers from people who use the gear, before and long after checkout.
How We Choose Gear
Field-first testing: We check quality clarity, mechanics, ergonomics, sealing, and serviceability across all our gear.
Real-world proof: We test in low light, rain, and cold, confirm parts and service, and favor designs that endure hard use.
Standard we uphold: Since 1999 and employee-owned—from surplus roots to today’s catalog—only gear we’d carry ourselves makes the cut.
Our Promise
Employee-owned: We take the long view with advice and support before and long after checkout.
Commitment to quality: Optics, survival gear, and precision instruments that enhance your time outside and endure hard use.
Trusted companion: Explore, survive, and thrive—every adventure well-equipped with service worthy of Deutsche Optik.
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Authentic Instruments & Field Gear for Collectors
A compact field journal of real-provenance pieces—aviation icons, precision optics, Davosa watches, Böker tools, leather carry, surplus wool blankets, maritime instruments, sundials, and Cold War signage—documented, serviceable, built to last. Printed on recycled paper and mailed free.
