Tell your friends about us on Facebook or Twitter, then enter promo code 444971 at checkout to save 10% on your entire order plus always free shipping in the US and subsidized express shipping worldwide. You can trust the Vintage Sunglasses Shop to protect your eyes and your investment as the world's largest retailer of authentic vintage sunglasses - read about our condition & authenticity guarantee. Auction sellers describe condition using vague, subjective, and misleading words to get higher prices and prevail in a purchase dispute, and most offer no returns. Vintage designer sunglasses are widely counterfeited and reproduced, sold knowingly and unknowingly in the market. While it can be cleaned off with simichrome or an analogous product should you so desire, we don't do it because a lot of our clients and collectors like these signs of age.ĭon't be fooled by fakes and condition misrepresentations. Note: Our vintage glacier glasses are all 25+ years old and even new old stock tends to develop minor tarnish on the metal rivets of the leather side blinkers. They are otherwise identical in size, appearance, and marks.ĢA Step up another level beyond our already unequaled vintage condition standards with new old stock Vuarnet 027 Skilynxīlack 1984 Olympics commemorative glacier glasses in mint, unworn condition.ĢB Step up another level beyond our already unequaled vintage condition standards and get the complete package with new old stock Vuarnet 027 Skilynxīlack 1984 Olympics commemorative glacier glasses in mint, unworn condition and including the snap on brown leather nose guard that was only available as a special order from Vuarnet. The exterior of one ear stem is embossed PX Vuarnet while the exterior of the other stem is embossed PX, with PX indicating Vuarnet origins in Pouilloux, France.ġA Step up another level beyond our already unequaled vintage condition standards with new old stock Vuarnet 027 Skilynxīlack glacier glasses in mint, unworn condition.Ģ In the 2 years leading up to Vuarnet's sponsorship of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Vuarnet added the repeating star symbol of the 1984 Summer Olympics to the embossed PX on one ear stem while the other stem is still embossed PX Vuarnet. In the frame and on some production one ear stem is marked 027 or 4027 (the 4 prefix was added in the early 1990s to indicate the Vuarnet Skilynx PX-4000 lens but they are exactly the same).

Is impressed Frame France along with the Vuarnet crown mark impressed Points with each lens laser etched with the Vuarnet 'V on a Ski'. Lenses measure approximately 2.25' x 1.75' at the widest The unisex Vuarnet 027 frame measures approximatelyĥ.5' temple to temple, and the Vuarnet Skilynx double gradient mirror The way a metal frame would, and it also provides great flexibilityĪnd durability for active sports sunglasses. Is designed so as not to stick to your skin in extreme cold conditions On your face in even the most extreme conditions for the more secure fit possible, and each leather side blinkerĪlso has an elasticized safety line that goes around your neck in the event of a bad fall. Or 'shooter' ear stems loop over the ears to keep them They provide 100% protection against harmful ultraviolet radiation and enhance depth of field perception, tempered to provide excellent scratch and impact resistance and vacuum treated with multi-layered coatings. Vuarnet PX-4000 Skilynx lenses have silver double gradient filters on the fronts to absorb glare and have anti-reflective coatings on the backs to eliminate irritating bounce back light. The sunglasses while rotating outward when wearing to protect yourĮyes from wind, snow, rain, and glare coming in from the sides.

The golden years of Vuarnet sunglasses c 1980s, and they featureīlack leather side blinkers that rotate inward to permit folding of Black glacier glasses, featured in the James Bond film Spectre, are one of the rarest designs produced during

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