Originally Posted by
Sangetsu
I bought a set of Oakley Juliet titanium sunglasses in the late 90's, and have been wearing them ever since. I have sat on them, stepped on them. and crashed on them (the glasses were compressed between my chest and the pavement, and broke two of my ribs). But the glasses refuse to break. Once every few years I send them back to Oakley to get them refinished. I got them new, at dealer cost for some $180, and it was one of the better investments I have made.
My glasses are optical, so I suppose they are used more intensely. I have to take a better care of them as I highly depend on them - cannot part with them to send them to nowhere and cannot treat them with hazard hoping that they will survive anyway and then say: look a miracle. Yet if an emergency arose I can get them fixed at the spot. In the end I am fully aware that vast majority of US customers in the area of metal optical frames wear titanium and are happy with them. After the stunning lesson I had, though, it would have been highly irresponsible of me (less PC adjectives could be put here) to put such a failure point in my system for no perceivable gain, in fact loss. A minor incident in my case turned into a major disaster - fortunately my trip at the time was winding down so most loss was financial - I had to get new glasses at 2x I would have paid at home + alter personal plans to get the glasses done + weigh on the neck of my hosts to help me.