Architect progressive

[daveyboy]

Hi

Can anybody tell me what the architect progressive is from RX club? Is it an office progressive and why is there 3 versions? I cannot find any information from the essilor website or online?

Thanks

[Chris Ryser]

Beautiful name for a lens. Would you ever use a progressive lens as an architect ? A single vision lens would be the best or an old Executive Bifocal second.

[Golfnorth]

Hi

Can anybody tell me what the architect progressive is from RX club? Is it an office progressive and why is there 3 versions? I cannot find any information from the essilor website or online?

Thanks

Don't be fooled by the low price. It's not a good lens. Side distortion is there but smoothed out in the pair I tried. Distortion is so smooth you don't think it's there till you put back on your "good progressives." Basically it's an adaptar design made out of a single vision lens. That explains my experience.

Regards,
Golfnorth

[HindSight2020]

All of their lenses are based off an Adaptar design recycled over and over. Their calendar probably still shows 1985 at their manufacturing facility. Its like building a jeep off a styrofoam chassis - very weak and very cheap.

[daveyboy]

Thanks for the information - I could not find the lens in the essilor catalog. I was temped to try a pair with the low price but I should probably avoid it.

[optimensch]

Thanks for the information - I could not find the lens in the essilor catalog. I was temped to try a pair with the low price but I should probably avoid it.

It is a lens from RXCLUB, not in the essilor catalogue.
You need an RXCLUB account to order them, I suppose.

FWIW I've tried a couple of pairs, uncoated and in-house-tinted for sunglasses, and they were fine.

[EyeQ]

Hi

Can anybody tell me what the architect progressive is from RX club? Is it an office progressive and why is there 3 versions? I cannot find any information from the essilor website or online?

Thanks

This lens is from rx club a division of Essilor, it comes In three designs the Artitech 3.0 being the best in it's series. I tried a pair for myself and was very pleasantly surprised, there is very little swim effect and I found the reading zone generous, we use this lens everyday for our value patients, to date I may have dispensed about 50+ pairs with good results. I found the add power was slightly under corrected and I bump it up a quater.
Hope this helps.
my 2 cents.

[optimensch]

This lens is from rx club a division of Essilor, it comes In three designs the Artitech 3.0 being the best in it's series. I tried a pair for myself and was very pleasantly surprised, there is very little swim effect and I found the reading zone generous, we use this lens everyday for our value patients, to date I may have dispensed about 50+ pairs with good results. I found the add power was slightly under corrected and I bump it up a quater.
Hope this helps.
my 2 cents.

Have you found the need to bump the add even in the architect short?

[daveyboy]

This lens is from rx club a division of Essilor, it comes In three designs the Artitech 3.0 being the best in it's series. I tried a pair for myself and was very pleasantly surprised, there is very little swim effect and I found the reading zone generous, we use this lens everyday for our value patients, to date I may have dispensed about 50+ pairs with good results. I found the add power was slightly under corrected and I bump it up a quater.
Hope this helps.
my 2 cents.

Interesting! Thanks for the input. For the price it seems like a good option for patients with a small budget. Do you know if there is much difference in design between the 3 versions?