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A 131mm span, with Switchlock lenses that swap in seconds. No rim in your peripheral view, temples that click to three lengths, and a photochromic option that darkens on its own as the sun does the work. Sopot next, in its Weimar years, where somebody deliberately put the dunes between the wind and the horses.
Oakley Jawbreaker Rectangular Sunglasses: Behold the Dom Zdrojowy, Sopot’s spa house, with its garden opening toward the State Art Gallery—perfect terrain for a genteel promenade until the sky decides to dump a bucket of Baltic doom on everyone’s hats.
Oakley Jawbreaker Rectangular Sunglasses: This theatre opened in 1909 at the edge of the woods, which is exactly where thunder likes to rehearse before making the orchestra pit feel underdressed. Culture, but with excellent chances of dramatic tree-swaying.
Oakley Jawbreaker Rectangular Sunglasses: The red-brick Church of the Saviour rises above Sopot’s villa streets, a splendid lookout for judging whether that cloudbank is ordinary rain or a full civic rinsing. I’m rooting for the rinsing.
Oakley Jawbreaker Rectangular Sunglasses: At the Karlikowo hippodrome, the sand track and jumps sit behind the dunes, practically begging for a heroic crosswind to turn show jumping into weather-based slapstick. Sand in the air, horses in formation, disaster politely wearing riding boots.
People buy sunglasses for the good days. I buy them for the day the weather turns, and I would like to talk to you about a lens that changes colour when it does.
The Jawbreaker is a full-rim shield in injected O Matter, and the shield measures 131 millimetres across, which is a single sweep of lens with no rim breaking your field of view at the point where things come at you. Oakley call it an extended field of view and it is not marketing — a shield that wide is a shield you can look sideways through.
The lens is Plutonite, filtering one hundred per cent of UVA, UVB and UVC and harmful blue light to 400 nanometres, and it runs High Definition Optics so the curve does not warp what you are looking at.
Two features earn their keep when conditions go bad. The first is Switchlock, the interchangeable lens system, which means when the sky drops out mid-session you change the lens instead of changing your plans.
The Prizm range runs Road, Road Jade, Trail Torch, Snow Sapphire Mirrored — and there is a photochromic that goes clear to black on its own as the light moves, which is my favourite piece of engineering in this entire catalogue, because it is a lens that reacts to weather in real time.
The second is the temples: they adjust to three different lengths, built so the frame will sit under a helmet. And the earsocks and nosepads are Unobtainium, which grips harder the wetter it gets. When everything else is getting slippery, this is getting tighter.
That is my kind of material.
Sopot in the Weimar years was a town spending its afternoons outdoors and not looking at the sky nearly enough. The Dom Zdrojowy spa house had its garden opening straight onto the State Art Gallery, and there was a theatre from 1909 out at the edge of the woods, and the Church of the Saviour standing in red brick above the streets of villas.
You will wear these everywhere from a hard court under a bright sky to the moment that sky closes, and while you are here — go out to the hippodrome at Karlikowo, sand track and jumps behind the dunes. Behind the dunes. Somebody looked at a coastline, understood exactly what the wind does to loose sand, and put the dunes between the weather and the horses on purpose.
That is the most sensible thing anyone in this town ever did.
"A photochromic lens reacts to the weather in real time. Everything else you own just gets rained on."
