2009 is a year of celebration for Essilor with the 50th anniversary of Varilux and now the milestone of 100 million Varilux Comfort wearers worldwide.
Toyota Corolla, the most successful car the in the world has sold 32 million cars since its launch in 1966. In less than 16 years Varilux Comfort has more than tripled these sales.
The first natural vision progressive lens, Varilux Comfort, is based on a very simple principle: giving wearers vision that is as natural as possible.
Since its launch in 1993, Varilux Comfort very quickly established itself as the benchmark against which other progressive lenses are measured.
With the development of Varilux Comfort, researchers focused for the first time on the movement of wearers’ eyes and heads when they looked at objects that were close to them.
The central idea behind the design was to reduce the progression length of the lens to allow wearers better posture in the near vision zone (without the need to bend their heads down to read a sheet of A4 on a desk in a natural position) and at the same time have better control over the edges of the lens to reduce aberrations and provide maximum visual comfort.
This year Essilor have launched Varilux Comfort 360º® - a part of the Varilux 360º Series. The unique visual ergonomics of the original Varilux Comfort design are combined with Essilor’s Advanced Digital Surfacing™ technology to deliver up to 30% wider fields of vision and a superior ergonomic performance, customized for each prescription.
Essilor would like to say a big THANK YOU to all opticians who have trusted and supported the Varilux brand. Essilor could not have wished for a better way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Varilux.
