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Oakley Debuts C Six Carbon Fiber Sunglass Frames

There's little to dislike about carbon fiber. It's lightweight. It's incredibly strong. It's exotic. And let's face it, it just looks cool. It's also incredibly complicated to work with, which makes it very expensive. So while they can make simple objects like wallets out of the stuff, making something more complex like, say, sunglasses frames, can be infinitely more difficult. Which would explain why, while some optic frames have been adorned with the stuff, they've yet to make complete frames from it. Until now.

Oakley has been working on producing a carbon fiber sunglasses frame for some time now, and details have just emerged. They're calling it the C Six, and they teamed up with motorsport engineers Crosby Composites to create it. But rather than trying to lay it into the right shape, they've machined the frames out of solid billet blocks of carbon fiber using advanced CNC drills, spinning at 10,000 rpm for 24 hours to create just one pair. No wonder they're only making 250 of them, and charging $4000 for each pair.

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Oakley's New Artist Series Frogskins

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

Oakley recently collaborated with artist Andrew Petterson to create a unique and refreshing collection of handcrafted one-of-a-kind Frogskins. There are 50 individual designs (I picked my favorites for the gallery below) and they're all so bright, cheerful, and (perhaps most importantly) stylish I'm sure you'll want more than just one pair. Coordinate them by color with your outfits or fall in love with a particular design and wear it as a signature statement.

Available at retail locations around the country -- click here to find one near you -- for $350.

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Gallery: Oakley Artist Series Frogskins by Andrew Petterson

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Oakley NANOWIRE Sunglasses

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Recently Oakley announced the release of its newest sunglasses, the high technology polarized NANOWIRE line. Features of the new glasses include a titanium alloy frame that allows for an adaptable fit and 'light as feather but tough as nails' durability, plus the polarized lenses that are so advanced Oakley launched an advertising campaign, Polarized Complete, just to educate consumers on what they're all about. Other than that newest and too-complicated-to-go-into-here technology, you can expect the usual high-end Oakley features such as high definition optics that make for clarity at all angles of vision, plutonic lens material that filters out 100% of all UV rays, and a lens coating that resists smudging. $300.

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Oakley Time Tank Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

Oakley, the company famous for their sporty sunglasses, has announced a new watch called the Oakley Time Tank. The Time Tank is a Swiss-made chronograph that has a 13-jewel movement. The watch has three sub dials that measure cumulative time, intermediate time and split time down to the tenth of a second. The watch has luminous phosphors on the minute and hour hands for improved visibility. It has a 48-month battery and comes with either leather strap or a titanium bracelet reinforced with carbon fiber. It has a sapphire crystal and a screw-down crown means it is water resistant to 330 feet. The Time Tank should be available in the second quarter of this year. The leather strap version is $995 and the titanium bracelet version costs $1195.

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