The Oakley Scalpel : A Review

When you sit down to review a pair of sunglasses, there isnt much to go on and its made more difficult due to us all having our own tastes, but we’ve made it a little easier. Rather than review a paire of sunglasses and compare directly against a competitors pair, which lets face it, could be radically different, we’ve cheated by comparing the same sunglasses against each, all be it in different flavours.

The subject for this review are the Oakley Scalpel range, one of the most popular sets of glass out there and coming in no less than nine different varieties. Oakley sunglasses are well know for their exceptional engineering of high performance eye wear and those same skills have been firmly planted in the scalpel range.

Within the range, you can choose from dark grey, polished black, two shades of brown and two different versions of white. White chrome are undoubtedly the most striking, but for sheer style and quality, the new range of Ducati signature glasses take first place.

You get the usual shades of black for the lenses, but there are other, more risky and garish options such as the purple optics on the white chrome version and the blood red set found in the dark grey scalpels sunglasses.

Frames are lightweight but strong and surprisingly comfortable for a big set of glasses. Sports activities may challenge you, but they won’t removing your glasses from you thanks to the sticky stuff on the end of the frames.

As you would expect for designer glasses of this quality the lenses filter out 100% of damaging UVA, UVB, UVC and even harmful blue light up to 400nm. They also conform to all current lens standards set by ANSI.

Oakley market these specs as HDO or High Definition Optics and despite the obvious marketing ploy, these glasses are amongst the very best optics money can buy, so when you are looking for a top of the range set of sunglasses at under £100, the Oakley Scalpel range are 10 out of 10.