Warden (Hammer) SKU: 05-886 - Common?

[DC240S]

Hi All,

I have some Warden (Hammer) sunglasses and wondered if they are rare - as I can't find much history of them for sale.
They were purchased new by me in 2004 and only had light use for a short while.

Frame: Silver
Lenses: Grey
SKU: 05-886

Many thanks.

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[Msgt Oakley]

Hi All,

I have some Warden (Hammer) sunglasses and wondered if they are rare - as I can't find much history of them for sale.
They were purchased new by me in 2004 and only had light use for a short while.

Frame: Silver
Lenses: Grey
SKU: 05-886

Many thanks.

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After seeing yours, I don’t like my 2007 Warden Square Icon triggers as much . You have a sweet pair. I never knew that these existed until I seen your pair. I went to “Oreveiw” right away and was checking them out. They are bad@ss!!

 

[MicahS]

Hi All,

I have some Warden (Hammer) sunglasses and wondered if they are rare - as I can't find much history of them for sale.
They were purchased new by me in 2004 and only had light use for a short while.

Frame: Silver
Lenses: Grey
SKU: 05-886

Many thanks.

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Honestly I wouldn't say they are "rare" as much as they aren't really collected as far as I can tell.

The Warden was originally released with a set of three Athlete editions that were only sold in brick and mortar surf shops on the West coast. Those were the White Frame/Black Lettering w/ Black Iridium lenses, The Black Frame/Neon Green Lettering w/ Black Iridium Lenses and the Black Frame/Pink Lettering w/ Black Iridium lenses. These were sold in very limited numbers and to my knowledge pictures of the Black/Green model do not even exist.

The Hammers were the first official model to be released before transitioning to the Trigger stem version in 2005. Once the "Stretchline" Line (Eyepatch/Twitch/Montefrido/Fatcat) of glasses was phased out, a few of those were rebranded into the short lived BLOCline (artist editions) and finally the Square O Series. This is where the Square O version of the Warder came into being, then being phased out in about 2008-2009.

The Silver/Black Iridium version of the Hammer is probably the most common of the hammers.

Mine are in the back row here

 

[DC240S]

Thanks for the replies and detailed info. Are mine Iridium lenses?

I have also posted on the valuation request thread as I'd like to sell them.

In the UK I cant find much history of these specific sunglasses for sale.

 

[MicahS]

I misspoke on the lens color in my last post the silver frame only came with grey lenses so yours would be grey

 

[DC240S]

Please can someone advise on establishing the lense size? I cant see any markings? Thanks

 

[MicahS]

Do you mean the lense size?

 

[DC240S]

Do you mean the lense size?

Yes sorry

From the point of view of ordering prescription lenses.

 

[MicahS]

Yes sorry

From the point of view of ordering prescription lenses.

If someone doesn't answer beforehand, I'll get the numbers after work

 

[DC240S]

If someone doesn't answer beforehand, I'll get the numbers after work

Many thanks.

The only numbers visible under the earsocks are 75-519 ?