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High Prescription Sunglasses

TheStoneTheStone Posts: 2,291
edited September 2012 in Road buying advice
Does anyone know which manufacturers/retailers sell high prescription sunglasses?

Ideally, I'd like some Oakleys, but it seems they only go up to +2.0.
My prescription is +2.75, +3.25

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  • jordan_217jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    Create an account with this company and when prompted enter your prescription and then when you're logged in you should only be able to see glasses suitable/available for your prescription.

    http://www.rxsport.co.uk/

    I nearly bought some Rudy Projects from them but my local Vision Express came up trumps with some specs at a good price.
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  • the_cyclist_of_catanthe_cyclist_of_catan Posts: 354
    +/-3 isn't what I'd call a high prescription; I'm -6/-7' and know people with worse vision.

    But higher strength lenses can be trickier to fit into the rx insert that some sports glasses/goggles take. I know that with my prescription and face geometry, it's pretty much a non-starter - the lenses end up pressing against my eyelids making blinking impossible! Instead I have to look for frames that can take a prescription lens directly. Oakleys are out (prescription strength, as you say), but Optilabs do a range that are both reasonably "wrap-around" and take a prescription lens. I'm happy with my pair.
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  • djsoftwaredjsoftware Posts: 199
    I'm +3.0 and +1.75 on one eye and use a company called Cilary Blue to make me some prescription reaction lenses for some Oakley Jawbones. The price for these was at least half the price of Oakleys. The lenses feel different as they are more curved that conventional glass lenses.
  • slowsiderslowsider Posts: 197
    I've had good service from buynewspecs.ie - option of high RI lens to educe thickness.
  • 13en13en Posts: 7
    I got mine from http://www.optilabs.com/. I've used them for a few months now without any problems, pretty good customer service too when I was ordering.
  • magoo289magoo289 Posts: 223
    TheStone wrote:
    Does anyone know which manufacturers/retailers sell high prescription sunglasses?

    Ideally, I'd like some Oakleys, but it seems they only go up to +2.0.
    My prescription is +2.75, +3.25


    My prescription is similar to yours and went to Vision Express for mine.
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  • jpc1004jpc1004 Posts: 1
    I got mine from http://www.rapideyewear.co.uk/ been using them for a while now, after receiving poor service from other companies, I would reccommend them.
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