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A wrapped Bollé sport frame, sold with Phantom photochromic lenses that shift tint as the light changes, an anti-fog treatment built into the lens rather than sprayed on, and grippier-when-wet Thermogrip contact points. I am standing in for the regular guide today, so you are getting Roseau and an honest account of where the spec sheet runs out.
bollé B-Rock Pro Sport Sunglasses: I’m only the substitute with the clipboard, but yes, these are the Old Market Plaza cobbles of the former slave market, and the Dominica Museum is doing the serious remembering while I try not to trip over a fact.
bollé B-Rock Pro Sport Sunglasses: Not the real guide, technically the understudy, but Fort Young began as a 1770 British battery, and the cannon still face the water in case the Caribbean sends a strongly worded frigate.
bollé B-Rock Pro Sport Sunglasses: I’m filling in, so lower expectations to cathedral height: Roseau Cathedral is built of volcanic stone under a stubby clock tower, which is frankly more architectural confidence than I brought today.
bollé B-Rock Pro Sport Sunglasses: As your emergency guide, I should point out that the Botanic Gardens still keep the school bus crushed under the tree that fell in 1979, because apparently even the exhibits here commit to the bit.
Right — the regular guide is not in today, so it is me and the B-Rock Pro, and I am going to start by doing the thing he never does, which is tell you exactly where my information stops.
Bollé is a French optics house whose reputation has never rested on frames; it rests on lenses. The B-Rock Pro is one of its sport shapes — wrapped, close to the face, built for somebody moving quickly outdoors rather than sitting still in a garden.
Here is what is on the record.
The colourways I can actually account for are matte black with a Phantom Vermillon Gun lens, matte black with Phantom Brown Red, matte white with Phantom Clear Green, and a shiny black paired with a brown gold lens.
Phantom is the word doing the work in that list: it is Bollé's photochromic lens, which changes its tint with the light instead of committing to one kind of afternoon, running from category 1 in dull conditions up to category 3 in glare. Two other house habits are worth your time.
The anti-fog is treated into the lens itself rather than sprayed on afterwards, so it survives washing instead of quietly wearing off in a season. And Thermogrip, the material at the temple tips and nose pads, is hydrophilic — it grips harder as it gets wetter, which is precisely backwards from every pair that has ever crept down your nose at four-all.
What I will not do is quote you a lens width or a frame measurement for this exact model, because I could not get one from Bollé and I am not going to invent a number to sound thorough. The regular guide would have given you three decimal places and a wink.
That habit is roughly why I am standing here.
Roseau, then, and I will keep out of its way. The Dominica Museum on Old Market Plaza first — a small building standing on the cobbles of the former slave market, which is an enormous amount of history to rest one modest facade on. Then Fort Young, a British battery from 1770 with its cannon still pointed at the water, aimed at ships that stopped coming a very long time ago.
Roseau Cathedral after that, built of volcanic stone under a stubby clock tower, the island's own mountain quarried and stacked into a nave. And finally the Botanic Gardens, where a school bus still lies crushed under the tree that came down on it in 1979, and nobody has moved the bus and nobody has moved the tree.
“They left the bus under the tree. Forty-odd years, no plaque, no fuss. Some things stand in for the whole story.”
The regular guide is back on Thursday. He will happily tell you the millimetres. Do not write them down.
