Wiley X Founder Captivate Pollarized Black Mirror Matte Black Frame (AC6FND05)

The CAPTIVATE lens technology redefines what you can expect of your sunglasses. With this superior lens technology, WILEY X has meticulously engineered a filter for your sunglasses, which filter out harmful light and elevates your visual performance by enhancing colors and contrasts and increasing clarity. With CAPTIVATE your color perception is not only redefined, but WILEY X has also set a higher bar for what sunglasses can be for you.

The polarized filter creates vertical openings for light, meaning that only vertical light waves can reach your eyes, whereas horizontal light is blocked. Horizontal light waves are the glare that is generated when vertical light hits a shiny surface, for instance a wet road, the car windshield, and especially water. The horizontal light appears as a strong glare that jeopardize your vision and makes it difficult for you to navigate. The polarized filter eliminates this glare and helps you stay focused and relaxed all day without experiencing headaches or eye fatigue.

It is not only the skin that can be harmed by UV-rays, but your sight can also be diminished. If your eyes are exposed to the sun, long and intensive radiation can lead to an infection of your eyes’ conjunctiva or cornea. That is why it is so important to use sunglasses and eyewear with UV-protection. WILEY X’s lenses all ensure you 100% UVA/UVB protection, assuring you protection from harmful rays that can lead to permanent eye damage.

An anti-reflective coating eliminates the distracting light reflections on the back surface of your lenses, making sure that light does not bounce back into your eyes and distort your vision. Lenses with an anti-reflective coating reduces blur and reflected images on the back surface of the lenses and will not only give you extra comfort and visual clarity, but also ensure optimal conditions for your polarized filter.

An oleophobic coating is an anti-smudge coating. The application of the coating gives you a pair of lenses with a much smoother surface, which helps you from keeping dust, oil, dirt, and water from sticking to the lenses. Ultimately, this helps in preventing smudging and water spots on your lenses, making them much easier to clean and making it easier for you to maintain a cleaner surface for a longer time.

All Wiley X lenses are treated with our T-Shell scratch resistant coating, which will protect the lenses against damage and extend their life span. With Wiley X you not only get lenses made from the high-quality material, polycarbonate, but also lenses that are coated with this top-of-the line hard coating, which ensure your lenses’ durability

All Wiley X eyewear comes with our shatterproof Selenite polycarbonate lenses. This material is super durable and strong, and we use it to ensure that our rigorous testing can be carried out, so you can get lenses that are certified to the toughest optical safety standards.

Triloid Nylon is the toughest non-metal material available. It not only gives you lightweight comfort, but it also extremely strong. Among other, it is thanks to this highly durable material that WX eyewear can withstand the rigorous safety tests that WILEY X certifies all their eyewear to. It might have a light and plastic feel, but Triloid Nylon is much stronger and of a higher quality.

The eyewear can be fitted with prescription lenses to match your optical needs, either directly into the lenses or using a prescription insert, depending on your Wiley X eyewear model.

ANSI Z87.1 tested means that the frame and lenses meet or exceed specific safety ratings set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), who has developed a certification system for safety eyewear in the US. As an American brand, WILEY X tests their eyewear to pass a high velocity impact test and a high mass impact test, as dictated by ANSI.

The high velocity impact test demands that the frame and lenses must withstand the impact of a 6,35 mm steel ball fired at 164,6 km/h, while remaining intact. The high mass impact test demands that the frame and lenses must remain intact while withstanding a 500 grams pointed projectile that is dropped down on the eyewear from a height of 127 cm.

An EN.166F certification means that the frame and lens live up to a low energy impact standard. The eyewear must withstand the impact of a 6 mm steel ball at 0,86 grams, which is dropped from 1,3 meters at a speed of 162 km/h. The lens must remain in the intact frame and not shatter for it to pass. This is a huge quality stamp when it comes to WILEY X’s performance sunglasses and protective eyewear, as you are guaranteed the same level of protection and quality, as the soldiers of the world demand.

With the side shields, you can attach additional protection of your vision to your sunglasses. With the side shields the eyewear are certified to the eyewear safety standard EN.166, giving your vision superior industrial grated safety.

The side shields can also be permanently installed, adding lasting protection of your vision in the peripheral area. Simply add the included plug to make the sides shields permanent. However, be aware that once the plug has been inserted, the side shields cannot be removed again.