Only a search on Google will show whether you may get your money back if you have the binoculars serviced. See what they sell for on places like eBay or Gumtree and see if the ads mentioned "recently serviced" or anything to do with condition.
A military buff may place more value on them or a collector but these people are getting harder to find and if you go to the major sources they don't want to pay for the stuff, they want it for as little as possible so they can sell them on and make a profit.
Were you to get them serviced and get some good use out of them then it would be worth doing, if they work well as they are don't have them serviced and save your money. If it's just hoping to make a profit in the future I'd never count on that personally.
It is the age of entitlement!
I have a pair of WWII field glasses belonging to a former Luftwaffe pilot, a late neighbour and friend who was a Major in the Luftwaffe.
He was interned in a camp at a young age and taught to fly, he had no choice in it. I believe they may have been Zeiss lenses, I must see if I can find them, I was sure they were up with my lenses.
I'm not sure they hold any value and in Germany collection of this stuff is deemed illegal. I also have his 3 jackets. One has the Swastika on it and it's done with gold, not gold thread, thin gold strips woven through the fabric as is banding on the collar, another jacket with just wings which I think may have been a parade jacket and his field jacket/trench coat, a very heavy winter jacket.
I've been trying to find somewhere that may be interested in taking them other than a friend who put his hand out fast thinking he may make a dollar. I really have no use for them to be honest. They were left to me by a late friend in the hopes his memory may be preserved.
I like old stuff and also have a matched pair of working communication phones which came off the HMAS Voyager during it's fit out. They hold value to a collector but again, same older friend put his hand out.
I've had them for a lot of years.
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HMAS Voyager was a Daring-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), that was lost in a collision in 1964.
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