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product code : k5413 :
£ 325
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Never worn 1990s gold metal and black carbon fibre
frame marked KILLY FRAME FRANCE mod 473 02 730
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Original dark brown
polarized lenses
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Perhaps the greatest French sportsman of all time, besides
winning many World Cup medals in the 1960's - from the age of
18 -
Jean Claude Killy topped this with winning all three alpine
Olympic gold medals at the 1968 games in Grenoble. In 1975
he started his skiwear label and his Killy Technical Eyewear was
launched in 1990; this unworn example being the first design in a
"new concept in sunglasses" for serious athletes. Killy's concept
was the high specification frame which here includes a "free-floating
vertical bar and nosepiece" - the tiny spring inside absorbing shock
and making the nosepiece reactive while wearing for skiing or cycling.
Above this a "silicone covered brow protector further absorbs any
shock from a frontal jolt". "Dual action spring temples keep the fit
snug" and were also there "to release in case of a fall - like the
bindings on a ski-boot." The frame is gold metal and a polymid,
carbon fibre, here in black, with temple tips that you can rotate
for extra grip during sport or return to normal for everyday wear.
The lenses are polarised - so again sports-dedicated. The original
price-tag had these at USD$445 which put them in the top category
for performance eyewear. Made in France, these very special
sunglasses even have their own serial number, like another French
luxury eyewear maker, Cartier. Do we need to go on - or did we
have you at serious?
— klasik
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