Abstract: A mount for optical lens elements or the like, with a retaining ring arranged in a mount body and holding a lens element in the mount. To obtain uniform contact pressure in the lens element and avoid exertion of a torque during mounting of the retaining ring in the mount body, openings are provided along an outer peripheral zone of the retaining ring, with the openings penetrating in the preferably cylindrical peripheral surface of the retaining ring. Setscrews oriented parallel to the element axis are located in the openings to be rotatable and held toward the lens element. The setscrews enter into the mount body with their thread zone projecting out of the peripheral surface of the retaining ring.