Dragon
(65)Dragon Alliance – leading eyewear and accessories
It all started in a garage in Capo Beach, CA. With a lot of enthusiasm and knowledge of the market founder Will Howard aimed to build a company that encompassed his passions for snowboarding, surfing and riding dirt bikes. With the first and still primary product, sunglasses, Will started small in the local surf shops. After putting his name on the map at these places, the company expanded to Hawaii and Florida, and later to Australia and other international markets.During this period Dragon began developing innovative, diversified products in all eyewear categories. By creating functional , high-quality merchandise that connected with the youth it really pushed the status quo. From there, Dragon recruited snowboarders like Jamie Lynn , Chris Roach and a few others and many years later, Dragon became a leader in the snow goggle business.Years of experience went on and in 2011 the innovative, new approach of Dragon lead to further market-leading developments. The first-ever frameless snow goggle the APX launched in that winter.
Snow goggle tech
With no less than 18 different types of lenses in 2017, Dragon really has the right goggles for the best view in every condition. Whether you enter the mountain in clear sunshine , dense snow , in the morning or in the evening, with or without frame, you can rely on Dragon.
LumaLens – Every lens. Every colour.
This is Dragon's showpiece, the Lumalens. Allow yourself to see everything - better depth perception - increase contrast – enhance colour recognition – reduce eye fatigue and all of this with just one lens!The LUMALENS Technologie turns UV-light into Optimised Filtered light, in every circumstance. With five different lenses in Low Light and Bright Light, Dragon makes sure that you can see every little bump in the snow. Engineered to optimise and improve your visibility in all conditions.
Sunglasses tech
Not only is Dragon a leader when it comes to snow goggles, the sunglasses are also as stylish and from a high-standard, as you expect from this brand.With 5 different lens shapes :
- 8x4 Toric (unique and modern look to the lens. 8 base wrap horizontally and flatter 4 base wrap vertically)
- 4 base (modern, flat appearance to lenses, spherical with a constant curvature of 4)
- Multi-Base Shield Lens (lens with a constant vertical curvature of 6 and horizontal that can go from 3.5 to 24)
- 6 base (flatter look to lenses, lens has constant curvature of 6)
- 8 base (curved look to lenses, more wrapped effect. Lens has a constant curvature of 8)
- Polarised
- Photochromatic
- Non mirrored
- Mirrored
4 different sunglass frame technologies :
- Grilamid (injection moulded nylon based thermoplastic material. Extremely lightweight and durable. It can achieve wide range of colours and patterns)
- H2O (specially formulated, lightweight injection moulded thermoplastic material. The H2O material has the lowest density of all other thermoplastic materials)
- ANSI Z87.1 (select sunglasses with this logo are certified to pass the ANSI Z87.1 standard for optics and high impacts. Your eyes are just that much more protected from anything flying at them)
- Acetate (cut from sheets, longer process to make, a lot done by hand.)