RAY-BAN

Ray-Ban started in 1937 when Bausch & Lomb in Rochester, New York answered a US Army Air Corps request for something to stop pilots' glare, and the Aviator was the result. The Wayfarer came in 1952, one of the first frames moulded in plastic rather than bent from wire. What we have is the smaller end of the archive: the Original Wayfarer in bio-based acetate, the Old Aviator, the Cats 5000 and the Flacko. Nothing you have not seen before, which is the point of Ray-Ban.

Ray-Ban RB4125 601/R5 59 Cats 5000 Sunglasses

Black

$210.00

Ray-Ban RB4454 1452C5 56 Flacko Sunglasses

Havana Red

$210.00

Ray-Ban RB2140 135931 50 Original Wayfarer Bio-Based Sunglasses

Polished Havana

$236.00

Ray-Ban RB3825 001/31 58 Old Aviator Sunglasses

Arista

$210.00

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