Vela Pilot, Black Steel
- Stainless steel
- 24 g
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The thin-wire pilot with a coloured mirror - teal or rose - over a brown base. The teal is being retired.
Pick a frame size before adding it.
The Maestrale's wire frame with a colour mirror instead of a plain tint: teal over brown, or rose over brown. It is a holiday pair, priced like one, and the colour shows in the lens rather than the frame.
Teal is leaving the range and is reduced against the price it sold at for the previous 30 days; rose stays. Everything true of mirror coatings is true here: they scratch before the lens does, and they show fingerprints.
| Lens width (S / M / L) | 52 / 55 / 58 mm |
|---|---|
| Bridge | 14 mm |
| Temple length | 140 mm |
| Frame material | Stainless steel, 1 mm wire |
| Lens material | Nylon, UV400 protection |
| Polarised | No - mirrored tints only |
| Weight | 22 g |
| Hinge type | Standard barrel |
| Case included | Yes, soft pouch and cloth |
The things about this piece that people write to us about. None of them is a fault, all of them are worth knowing first.
Cleaning. Rinse grit off before wiping. Keep in the pouch, lenses up.
Protection. Every lens we sell, whatever its tint, is UV400: it blocks UVA and UVB up to 400 nm. The darkness of the tint has nothing to do with the UV filter.
Tested. Six people wore this frame for a month before it was listed. The drawbacks above are what they reported.
Orders from €80,00 ship free; below that it is €4,90. One to two working days in Italy, two to four for most of the EU.
Anything unworn, in its case with the cloth, can come back within 30 days. Hinges and lens coatings are covered for 2 years. The full policy.
From 86 people who bought the Brezza Pilot, Colour Mirror and were asked six weeks later.
Measured my face at 138 mm, took the M as the guide said, and it sits exactly where the photo shows. First pair of sunglasses I have bought online that fit.
The weight on the page is accurate. I wanted something light and the number told me which to buy before I had to try three.
The polarised lens does blank my petrol pump screen at an angle, as warned. Still my favourite pair; just wish I had read the warning first instead of second.
Hold a ruler flat across your face at eye level and read the width from temple to temple. That one number picks the size.
| Face width | Size | Lens width, this frame |
|---|---|---|
| Under 130 mm | S | 52 mm |
| 130–140 mm | M | 55 mm |
| Over 140 mm | L | 58 mm |
Bridge on this frame: 14 mm. Temple length: 140 mm. If you already own a pair that fits, the three numbers are usually printed inside one temple - compare them.