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Tom Cruise has been recognized to sport Ray-Bans onscreen and off in each Top Gun movies and Risky Business — however for the Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning premiere at Cannes, the famous person switched up his solar gear with a distinct pair of aviators.
The 62-year-old actor sported American Optical’s Original Pilot sunglasses, a silhouette favored by navy pilots and NASA astronauts, per the model. (AO notes that they have been the first-ever aviators designed particularly for the U.S. navy in 1935.) Cruise wore the silver body with True-Color grey lenses — which film buffs might have additionally seen on Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. The heritage model’s iconic frames usually begin at $200 — however you’ll be able to rating Ethan Hunt’s off-duty search for up to 20 percent off through the firm’s summer time sale proper now.
Available in gold, silver, matte silver or black frames, the American Optical Original Pilot aviator sun shades are available in sizes small to massive and will be custom-made with light-weight AOLite Nylon or distortion-free SkyMaster Glass lenses, with or with out polarization.
Both impact-resistant lens choices function one hundred pc UVA/UVB safety and anti-reflective, scratch- and smudge-resistant coating. Polarized lenses additionally give wearers enhanced distinction and glare-free imaginative and prescient — and we’re certain Ethan Hunt (or Maverick) would approve.
American Optical was based in 1833 in Massachusetts by watchmaker and jeweler William Beecher, whose mechanical improvements helped him create the primary skinny metal eyewear body within the U.S. According to the Optical Heritage Museum, the corporate additionally manufactured aviator goggles, hospital gear, submarine telescope sights within the early 1900s.
Now based mostly in Chicago, the corporate’s specs have been immortalized in Normal Rockwell work (AO commissioned the long-lasting American artist to create six works), by aviation pioneer Jimmy Doolittle (who wore AO goggles on his record-breaking transatlantic flight in 1930) and by the Apollo 11 astronauts when the Original Pilot glasses grew to become the primary sunnies on the moon. President John F. Kennedy was incessantly noticed in AO’s Saratoga acetate sunglasses, whereas Malcolm X and Lyndon B. Johnson sported the iconic Sirmont browline frames (each types are additionally on sale).
Check out the various colorways of American Optical’s Original Pilot glasses beneath together with different discounted trendy specs, and store the model’s summer time sale at americanoptical.com.
American Optical Original Pilot in Gold with True-Color Gray AOLite Lenses, Non-Polarized
American Optical Original Pilot in Silver with Calobar Green SkyMaster Lenses, Non-Polarized
American Optical Original Pilot in Black with Blue Mirror AOLite Polarized Lenses
American Optical Original Pilot in Black with True-Color Gray AOLite Non-Polarized Lenses
American Optical Original Pilot in Matte Silver with Calobar Green AOLite Lenses, Polarized
American Optical Original Pilot in Matte Silver with Calobar Green AOLite Lenses, Polarized
American Optical Original Pilot in Gold with Calobar Green SkyMaster Non-Polarized Lenses
American Optical Saratoga Tortoise Sunglasses
American Optical Sirmont Tortoise Gold Sunglasses
