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Oakley Fast Jacket

Whatever the challenge, Oakley makes sure you're prepared. Oakley Fast Jacket sunglasses are all about preparation and staying ahead of the competition. Their instantly recognisable appearance and world-beating tech gives you the perfect platform for success.

Innovation is a word that captures Oakley. They smash through boundaries. This is evident in their unrivalled Switchlock Technology. Environments can change without warning and bright sunlight can give way to dark clouds in an instant. Switchlock Technology makes sure this doesn't affect your vision. It allows you to switch lenses efficiently and without any fuss with virtually the touch of a button. Not even James Bond can do that.

Pushing the Switchlock Technology further, high-strength Metal Injection Moulded (MIM) Stainless Steel has been used to ensure that the mechanism does its job quickly, every time. Whichever lens you switch to, the Oakley Fast Jacket ensures your vision is pristine. Oakley's Plutonite lens material features High Definition Optics (HDO) to help keep your eyes on the prize and maintain clarity and fight glare. The plutonite also protects you from all UV Rays and harmful blue light up to 400 nm.

Then there's XYZ Optics. Linking up with the Plutonite lens material, XYZ Optics maintains clarity wherever you look. Visual distortion is also prevented with the cushion lens suspension system. This keeps the lenses firmly in place.

Oakley loves both variety and choice. You can see it throughout their range of sunglasses, and the options they come with. Iridium coating is a particularly good extra they've included with the Fast Jacket, fighting glare even harder. This really becomes useful when you're exposed to bright light.

Coverage in the corners of the lens is also something Oakley considers vital. That's why the lenses included in Oakley Fast Jacket sunglasses are shaped with an 8.75 base lens curvature. This not only allows for improved peripheral vision, but it protects the corner of your eyes from any dust or debris. Of course, if debris is flung at you or you suffer a heavy fall, then the Oakley Fast Jacket will take the hit and carry on. In fact, the lenses meet ANSI Z87.1 standards for high velocity and high impact resistance. They also meet ANSI Z87.1 standards for optical performance and precision.

If you're wearing these sunglasses all day, then you need the comfort the O-Matter frame brings. As well as being extremely lightweight, it also holds Unobtanium nose pads and earsocks. Both of these components increase grip when you perspire, so they work hard while you do. The three-point fit is also worthy of praise, keeping the Fast Jacket in precise optical alignment.

From hardened pros to budding youngsters, athletes worldwide can't get enough of the Oakley Fast Jacket. These sunglasses were simply made for top-level sport. Now you too can see that finish line clearer than ever before.

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Performance, technology and fashion is the Oakley way and this philosophy has resulted in some of the best engineered sunglasses, goggles and accessories on the planet.

All Oakley sunglasses are built using Oakley technology; it’s where physics meets art. Among it the High Definition Optics give you the best clarity and a Three-Point-Fit means your sunglasses will only touch your nose bridge and temples. It allows for more comfort. As well as being practical, the contemporary designs means Oakley sunglasses give a real edge to your image.

Unobtainium grips means the sunglasses will stay where you want them and with at least 600 other patents Oakley is nothing like you’ve ever seen and nothing like you’ve ever worn.

And at Sunglasses Shop we’ve been fans of Oakley sunglasses since it first came to us all those years ago. Oakley’s blend of science and art means we can stock some of the best known and best loved sunglasses in performance and lifestyle eyewear.

The Story of Oakley Sunglasses

For Oakley, it all started with a mad-scientist Jim Jannard. He believed that everything could be made better. In 1975 Jim started out with just $300 and made a motorbike handgrip made from a uniquely new material, Unobtainium. It fitted the rider’s hand better than anything before it. It actually increased grip with sweat too.

Next came Jim’s real breakthrough. The O-Frame goggle, with its perfectly cylindrical arc, stayed on the MX scene for the next 17 years. Riding stars championed the goggles’ clarity and wide peripheral view.

The first Oakley sunglasses were Eyeshades and Tour de France cyclist Greg Lemond loved the protection it offered and was the first pro to approach Oakley.
Today Oakley is the mark of excellence for those who cannot compromise on performance. The designs blend technology and with more than 600 patents. It’s become a science at Oakley, but a science that’s combined with art to produce some of the best engineered sunglasses on the planet.

These days many regard Oakley’s research and development method as second to none and perhaps that’s their secret. But don’t take our word for it (well actually you should because we are the experts) but Oakley are worn by the elite for a reason. But you don’t need to be the best of the best to get the best.

Why Choose Oakley Sunglasses?

Oakley’s technology is immense too. The High Definition Optics (HDO) are unrivalled in their clarity. Your eyes won’t shift as they readjust their focus as can happen with inferior lenses, and you get the best impact protection too. And it’s not just in the lens, the frame will hold up just as well.  As we said, there's 600 patents and more.

A huge choice of lens tints gives you balanced light transmission for wherever your sport takes you; can improve depth perception or colour recognition and come in polarised, photochromic options. Iridium coatings will help with harmful UV and infra red and many are prescription friendly too.

Oakley redefine, transcend and reject convention.

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