Adaptable daylight lens
The 15% light-transmission lens suits bright, changing, cloudy and overcast daytime conditions.
The Wiley X Alfa combines a CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Bronze Mirror lens with a lightweight Gloss Crystal Light Olive/Grey frame. Its 15% light transmission, polarised glare reduction and contrast-enhancing Copper base suit bright, changing and overcast daytime conditions, with particular relevance to shallow-water fishing and daytime driving.
Product description
The CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Bronze Mirror lens increases contrast and helps visual differences appear easier to distinguish. Its Copper base enhances warm colours, including red, yellow and green tones, while making yellow elements more distinct.
Polarized Filter 8™ reduces horizontal glare reflected from water, wet roads, windscreens and other shiny surfaces. This makes the configuration particularly useful for activities around water and for daytime travel through changing light conditions.
Anti-reflective, oleophobic and T-Shell™ coatings provide separate benefits for reflection management, easier cleaning and resistance to surface damage.
Key features
Polarised glare reduction
Polarized Filter 8™ reduces horizontal glare reflected from water, wet roads, windscreens and other shiny surfaces.
Contrast enhancement
CAPTIVATE™ technology helps colours and visual differences appear more distinct.
Warm-colour emphasis
The Copper base enhances red, yellow and green tones and makes yellow elements more noticeable.
Blue-light filtering
The lens reduces scattered short-wavelength blue light associated with haze and filters ultraviolet and blue light at wavelengths up to 430 nm.
Protective coatings
Anti-reflective, oleophobic and scratch-resistant treatments support reflection management, easier cleaning and resistance to surface damage.
Recommended use
The WX Alfa is particularly suited to shallow-water fishing, daytime driving, hiking, beach use and other daytime activities involving reflected glare or changing light. Its Copper base is especially relevant in environments containing yellow, red and green elements, while polarisation helps manage glare from water, wet roads and windscreens.
Fit & comfort
Designed to adjust, built to stay secure
The medium-wrap Base Curve 6 frame is made from lightweight, durable Triloid™ Nylon. It has a Gloss Crystal Light Olive/Grey finish.
The medium-wrap Base Curve 6 frame is made from lightweight, durable Triloid™ Nylon. It has a Gloss Crystal Light Olive/Grey finish.
Lens details
CAPTIVATE™ Polarized Bronze Mirror
15% light transmissionThe CAPTIVATE™ lens manages selected wavelengths by separating overlapping blue, green and red light. This increases contrast and helps colours and visual differences appear more distinct. The Copper base enhances warm colours, including red, yellow and green tones, and makes yellow elements in the wearer’s view more noticeable. It is intended for bright sunlight, changing daylight and cloudy or overcast daytime conditions. Polarized Filter 8™ reduces horizontal light reflected from surfaces such as water, wet roads and windscreens. The lens also reduces scattered short-wavelength blue light associated with haze and filters ultraviolet and blue light at wavelengths up to 430 nm.
The lens is made from strong, durable Selenite™ polycarbonate and provides 100% UVA and UVB protection.
Anti-reflective coating: Reduces distracting reflections from the back surface of the polarised lens.
Oleophobic coating: Helps reduce smudges and makes dirt, oil and moisture easier to remove.
T-Shell™ coating: Helps resist scratches and limit surface damage, although scratch-resistant does not mean scratch-proof.
Protection backed by defined testing
This configuration is assessed against ANSI Z87.1, EN.166F.
ANSI Z87.1
Assesses the complete eyewear against defined high-velocity and high-mass impact tests. These include a fast-moving 6.35 mm steel ball and a 500 g pointed falling projectile; the frame and lens must remain intact during testing.
EN.166F
Confirms that the frame and lens have passed a defined low-energy impact test in which the lens must remain in the frame and must not shatter under the specified conditions.