2 years later my last Oakley project see's the light of day and sells out in 8 minutes! We were challenged to achieve complex geometry mass produceable Carbon Fiber. We tested technologies globally and settled on a fantastic US company that introduces long strands of carbon fiber into the injection molding process and manages to make them not shear into a thousand pieces. It was so strong that we had to continually make it weaker as there was zero flex. @brentonhaven KILLED the final Engineering on this piece.

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Felt like it was up longer than that, but I still passed initially. Then I had a change of heart and luckily someone is willing to help out.

I think it hit Oakley.com at midnight PST. I bought mine about 6am PST and it was available for several hours after that before it was sold out (at least the first sell out before it came back online a few more times).

The two new colour ways coming out for R3:

http://www.rxsport.co.uk/categories/Sunglasses/Oakley-Sunglasses/Oakley-Carbon-Prime-Sunglasses/





I was hoping they would match the Ferrari colour way on the Ruby pair, minus the lens and badging.

What month will the R3 happen on Oak?

September, I believe.

Looking like a pair I would buy...

Can't wait! Thanks Oak.

Any idea if they'll be limited?

Limited to 10k. I assume that is in total. So I think 5k each rather than 10k each.

OK, thanks Oak.

Limited to 10k. I assume that is in total. So I think 5k each rather than 10k each. - Oak

Correct 10k total world wide. Not sure iits an even split though.

RE Ferriari I think that license got switched form Oakley to Ray-Ban.

What month will the R3 happen on Oak? - JP

9/1

Thanks B. What's the price?

Based on the GBP, it looks similar

$590 each.

Not that much less than the LE MotoGP...

Documenting the differences between the SF16-C vs. the Carbon Prime to the end of 2017:

1) CF-injected O Matter - The SF16-C has both upper and lower potions of the orbital made of CF-injected O Matter, whereas only the top portion on the CP is made of it (the bottom half is regular O Matter).

2) Nosebombs - The CP has black Unobtainium nosebombs while the SF16-C has red nosebombs (or frosted clear in the case of the athlete prototype).

3) Lens etching - The CP's left lens is etched with "Prizm" or the MotoGP logo while SF16-C has the Scuderia Ferrari logo.

4) Earstem badging - The SF16-C has the Scuderia Ferrari badging on both earstems (or blacked out badging on the athlete prototype) while the CP has no badging.

5) Piston colour - The SF16-C comes with either silver or black pistons while the CP has only silver pistons (for now).

6) Earsock - The SF16-C has red earsocks while CP has black.

7) Icons - The SF16-C has Ferrari red icons on the earstem (black on the athlete prototype) while the CP has white, silver or red.

8) Nosepiece - The metal nose piece mount that holds the nose bombs is a slightly different shape at the portion that connects to the orbital.

9) Earstem laser etching - Each are etched with their respective model name and number. Some SF16-Cs will not have any etchings in the inside of the earstems.

10) Screws - The CP screws will be black while the SF16-C might be silver on some (especially at the hinges).

11) Serial number - Most, but not all, of the SF16-C have a serial number engraved on the underside of the CF-injected O Matter near the left hinge (in the form of SS123). The all-black SF16-C prototype and Carbon Primes do not have serial numbers.

Let me know if you see any other differences.

I wonder why only the top portion of the CP is CF-injected? Cost?

I could only guess they wanted to keep it sub-$600 MSRP.

Thanks, I would have assumed it was only just the color and branding which would have differed.