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Crossroads™

Sunglasses

Crossroads™

Marcus & Richard Franck

Verbier

Price

$154.00

About this piece

The Crossroads™ are unisex ski goggles engineered for high-performance skiing, snowboarding, and backcountry exploration. Inspired by classic mountaineering aesthetics and built with best-in-class lenses developed with Carl Zeiss. A dual-layer toric lens delivers exceptional peripheral vision, reduced distortion and uncompromising clarity.  Crossroads® feature our new fast-change, magnet-based PolarLock lens system - enabling fast and secure lens changes on the go. Each pair comes with a Cat. 3 lens as standard, and a second Cat. 2 lens included. (Additional Cat. 1 and Cat. 4 lenses are available for purchase). A durable TPU frame with excellent ventilation and an anti-fog inner lens ensures all-day comfort, vision and performance.

About the artist

Brothers Marcus and Richard Franck founded Vallon in 2018 in Verbier, Switzerland, after years of skiing, touring, and hiking the Val de Bagnes. The name is French for 'small valley' — a reference to the Vallon d'Arbi above Verbier where the idea took shape. Before launching the brand, the two ran the Old Schoolers Instagram account dedicated to the history of skiing; that obsession with vintage alpine eyewear shows up in every Vallon model — classic shapes resurrected with modern V52 lens technology and contemporary frame materials.

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