The
Ray-Ban Clubman style. I purchased the reissue with black frames (on
sale at a reduced price) as a replacement for an older tortoise-shell pair that are several years old which slipped away from me. The older ones may have been Bausch & Lomb. These seem to be of equal quality, and seem to balance better on my bridge (broken noses I've had can make some frames "ride" oddly or demand "tweaking" so as not to look crooked; no such issue with these). They are a bit heavier than other R-Bs, but I chalk that up to the glass lenses (instead of the lighter polycarbonate lenses), and they're certainly no heavier than the originals. There is no apparent lens distortion (the older pair did have a slight but obvious visible/visual "shift" noticeable when one compared the view inside the frame to the view outside the frame when the glasses were in hand/off the face). Re: the lenses, they're as large as the original (large-ish) Wayfarer, albeit the metal part of frames that attach the lenses to the brow-piece reduces the apparent bulk a bit; I wish they were slightly smaller. Without a doubt, they are classics, a stylish (i. e. timeless as opposed to merely fashionable) melding of the Wayfarer design with that of the original Aviator. They have an understated
panache all their own, as desirable and unaffected as the original Persols, with a comparable cred/provenance (and lacking the pretentiousness of the parvenu). I was gratified that the reissues appeared, and I'll probably spring for a pair of torties next.