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Ray-ban glasses, an iconic and essential brand

The Ray-Ban eyewear brand was created in the USA by two German immigrants John Bausch and Henry Lomb in 1936.

After a hot-air balloon flight, the aviator John Mac Cready dazzled by the sun, asked these opticians to make covering sunglasses to preserve vision and offer panoramic vision, this is how the famous Aviator sunglasses were born. equipped with G15 solar glass in a grey-green tint.

The story of Ray-Ban glasses

The legendary Ray-Ban glasses: a bit of history...

Ray-Ban is an eyewear brand created in 1937 by the American company Bausch & Lomb. At the request of an airman, Lieutenant Macready, of the "protective, panoramic and enveloping" aviator glasses equipped with the amazing solar glass G15 have been developed. After creating the model Airman », commissioned by the US Air Force in 1936, Ray-Ban glasses were immediately adopted by the US Army.