New Comfort?

[DragonLensmanWV]

I just got a piece of mail in from Essilor that I'm all excited about!
They tell me I should be excited anyway.:D

They're taking Varilux Comfort lenses to an exciting new place!
In October they'll bring exciting new developments to take Varilux Comfort lens design to new levels of excellence.

Look for their announcement at WE-W.

I can see it now ---- Comfort 360!

[For-Life]

I think it is great.

Get rid of the Physio and replace all of Essilors best designs with digital. The Comfort is one of the most succcessful lenses out there. Why go to a new design? Just make the current one better.

Top Class Marketing. Take successful designs that Opticians want to use, and make them better. Now the company is listening to its customers.

[obxeyeguy]

They're taking Varilux Comfort lenses to an exciting new place!

Let me be first on the rumor list with: Varilux Comfort new fitting height of 14mm. It has undergone the same technics used to change it from 22 to 18. :bbg:

[HarryChiling]

Here's an idea, place an atoric back side on any progressive and call it a 360 or HD or whatever spin you want it. Now I'll just sit back and wait for the royalties to roll in on such a great idea. :D

[Barry Santini]

...fitting Comfort (ol' & org "22") @ 18 is better than fitting many other lenses which are design for 18...at 18....

especially if the add is *spot* on..

FWIW

Barry

[MarcE]

They're taking Varilux Comfort lenses to an exciting new place!


I can see it now ---- Comfort 360!

I don't know if you were guessing, but you are exactly right. Also just released or soon to be is the Ellipse 360. Now if they only had Trivex . . . OH, and cut their prices in half then I could jump on board.

[AdmiralKnight]

The Ellipse 360 is already out, we've used it a few times, haven't heard the feedback one way or the other yet. My Essilor rep was saying that the Comfort 360 was suposed to be out by the end of Summer (This was August she told us), so it looks like they've pushed it back. As for the lens itself, I was under the assumption that the design itself was staying the same, they'll just be digitally surfacing it.

[DragonLensmanWV]

I don't know if you were guessing, but you are exactly right. Also just released or soon to be is the Ellipse 360. Now if they only had Trivex . . . OH, and cut their prices in half then I could jump on board.

I was just guessing. Maybe Essilor needs to pay me big bucks to do their thinking.:D

My old Essilor rep (haven't heard from her in several years) used to tell me:
1. Europeans were LAUGHING at us for fitting progressives so high, i.e. their minimum fit height, which we all know was thrown out the window. Them there Europeans must laugh pretty loud.:bbg:
2. Essilor will NEVER even consider Trivex, as it's such an inferior material to Airwear.

[hipoptical]

I just got a piece of mail in from Essilor that I'm all excited about!
They tell me I should be excited anyway.:D

They're taking Varilux Comfort lenses to an exciting new place!
In October they'll bring exciting new developments to take Varilux Comfort lens design to new levels of excellence.

Look for their announcement at WE-W.

I can see it now ---- Comfort 360!

(yawn) oh boy (yawn) i cannot wait (yawn) i may have peed a little
this is the (yawn) most exciting news ever

[karen]

It IS the Comfort 360, how did you guess?

dragon-heard a rumor about Definity maybe in Trivex.....

[Johns]

They're taking Varilux Comfort lenses to an exciting new place!

Hey I took my Comforts to South Dakota this year! What could be more exciting than that?

As far as the rest of the rumors...



ZZZZ...ZZZZZ.....ZZZZZ.....ZZZZZ......ZZZZZ....ZZZZZ

Wake me up when they lower the prices.

[braheem24]

Sell me some blanks and I'll be on the "Varilux is the best" bandwagon.

Last time Varilux rep came to my office and asked what we fit, I said "Flat Tops" I dont think she'll be visiting much. I offered to sell Varilux if they sold me semi-finished lenses but I guess they're too special for an ordinary person to surface

and that's the biggest reason why I dont even have an Essilor account.

You can have your lenses :cheers:

[Johns]

Last time Varilux rep came to my office and asked what we fit, I said "Flat Tops"

:D

[obxeyeguy]

I said "Flat Tops"

22 rounds are optically superior. One out of one opticians in my office can verify that.

[braheem24]

I fit Flat Top 360s. They're the 4th generation design with a minimum fit of 12mm and a wider reading area then your round segs



...and to think you call yourself an optician :hammer:

[obxeyeguy]

I fit Flat Top 360s. They're the 4th generation design with a minimum fit of 12mm and a wider reading area then your round segs

My rounds are all done by Awtech, compensated for tilt and wrap. I use the old essilor poloroid camera gigi from the 80's, that up till now, has held my lab coat. Oh, I haven't worn a lab coat since the 80's.
Can't remember the name of the gizmo, anyone.........

[HarryChiling]

Sell me some blanks and I'll be on the "Varilux is the best" bandwagon.

Last time Varilux rep came to my office and asked what we fit, I said "Flat Tops" I dont think she'll be visiting much. I offered to sell Varilux if they sold me semi-finished lenses but I guess they're too special for an ordinary person to surface

and that's the biggest reason why I dont even have an Essilor account.

You can have your lenses :cheers:

Your the man, it doesn't make sense to offer a product they don't trust you to fabricate properly, that's a back handed insult.

I fit Flat Top 360s. They're the 4th generation design with a minimum fit of 12mm and a wider reading area then your round segs



...and to think you call yourself an optician :hammer:

Where do I get these wonderful lenses. I'm tired of just these regular FT's I need the 360's. :)

[braheem24]

Where do I get these wonderful lenses. I'm tired of just these regular FT's I need the 360's. :)

Sorry bro, you're not special enough. It's an exclusive product for opticians that swallow lens rep sales pitches hook, line and sinker.

[Fezz]

Lets be fair people. I am sure the 14 plus year old Comfort design will be spectacular. Lets face it...if the sales of your newer products blow....why not bring out the old outdated designs and make them "New and Improved"?

[loratz]

Now All They Have To Do Is Fill A Specified Base Curve By A Real Person Entering The Job At Essilor.

[nicko]

There will be released mid Oct the Definity and Definity Short in Trivex material

[bhess25]

the prices for nearly any essilor lenses are outrageous..i work at a one hour lab and we have the natural and ovation...i also work part time at a small office (yep 7 days a week), and we fit the younger "image", not only does the image have one of the softest corridors available, but its also 1/3 the price of of any essilor design thats even close. I love how essilor wants to brag about all of these new designs, and yet keep them out of reach for any private practice to fit. I had a call from an essilor rep the other day and they asked how many times in the last year have i fit an essilor lens, you can imagine his dissapointment when i told him that we use a lens thats just as good if not better than essilors ovation and its sooo much cheaper, he then tried to sell me on their products. did he think we were rich?

[Fezz]

the prices for nearly any essilor lenses are outrageous..i work at a one hour lab and we have the natural and ovation...i also work part time at a small office (yep 7 days a week), and we fit the younger "image", not only does the image have one of the softest corridors available, but its also 1/3 the price of of any essilor design thats even close. I love how essilor wants to brag about all of these new designs, and yet keep them out of reach for any private practice to fit. I had a call from an essilor rep the other day and they asked how many times in the last year have i fit an essilor lens, you can imagine his dissapointment when i told him that we use a lens thats just as good if not better than essilors ovation and its sooo much cheaper, he then tried to sell me on their products. did he think we were rich?

Great post!

Welcome to Optiboard!

:cheers::cheers::cheers:

[AdmiralKnight]

Well I don't know about everyone else, but I am atleast interested in the Comfort 360. We have a lot of previous comfort wearers who quite like the lens, and I would imagine a lot of other offices are in the same boat. If the pricing is right, it might be a very popular lens. And for those harping about cost, I'd wait untill you see what they're actually going to cost before complaining. When essilor released the Ovation ADS, it was about $6 a lens more than the normal Ovation. If they keep a similar approach to the comfort 360, neither you nor your customers are going to break the bank with it.

[Uncle Fester]

The letter we got today reminds us that the Comfort 360 is only sold with Crizal so "Please remember to add the cost from our price list for your choice of Crizal."

In the words of Kevin Bacon in Animal House -SMACK- "Thank you sir. May I please have another.":shiner: