Saturday 28 May 2011

Fragile SWISSFLEX eyewear...

A word of warning to anyone with Swissflex eyewear, always be extremely careful when wiping them clean with the lens cloth.
Let me start off by saying that I'm pretty careful with my things, especially my glasses which I need to see anything close up. While I was cleaning the lenses with the bright red lens cloth provided, my specs suddenly came apart in my hands - the bridge had just completely snapped in half!
My Swissflex specs are now over a year old so the warranty had run out and that meant paying £49 for a replacement bridge. Now when I got them, these spectacles including lightweight lenses with all the coatings cost me about £450 (approximately $800 at the time) so I expected them to be a bit more durable than this.
As they say a picture tells a thousand words, you can see in the photograph below how sturdy the 'high-tech polymer' described on the Swissflex website really is...

So be warned that either the design of them or the material used means that bridge is likely to snap within a couple of years of normal usage. Well, that's been my experience anyway.