This pair of Sunglasses came to us with 2 scratches. The 1st scratch was a 1/4 inch line and the 2nd was a 1/16th inch dot scratch. We performed a scratch repair and repaired the area in both places. The lab saved this customer a lot of money because these types of lenses cannot be replaced.
The customer dropped his Eyeglasses on the concrete steps. The concrete left tiny pebble marks on his prescription progressive lenses that cost him about $500. This would have been a total loss for the customer had our lab not filled and buffed the lenses to take out the scratches to near perfection.
Overtime surface scratches can develop even if you have scratch resistant coating. The buffing process works in some cases to remove the scratches or at least to make them appear much lighter and invisible. In this example, this pair of Armani exchange eyeglasses contained such a problem.
