Man in a mint linen blazer wearing NINE40 Ocean Drive visor sunglasses, leaning on a black 1980s sports car on a neon-lit Miami street at night
Privacy sunglasses. Miami after dark.

Look sharp after dark.Leave no face behind.

Face unlock and infrared cameras light you up at 940 nanometers. You never see it. The NINE40 lens is built to swallow it, so the mirror looks like a Miami sunset to people and a dark patch to the camera. It goes clear after dark, dark by noon, and polarizes against glare. Any frame $54.95. Free shipping.

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Why 940

The spectrum stops where the lens says it stops.

940The film. 850 and 940 nm blocked
NightGoes clear after dark
NoonDark and polarized in sun
UV400The daylight part, handled

Phones and security cameras flood your face with near-infrared light to read it in the dark. It is invisible to you and very bright to them. Most sunglasses pass it straight through.

The NINE40 lens stacks three things. The 940 film absorbs that infrared band, so under an IR camera the eye region reads as a dark shape. A photochromic layer goes clear after dark and dark by noon, so one pair covers a night drive and a beach day. A polarizing layer cuts the glare off wet streets and car hoods once the lens is dark. To people it is a UV400 mirror in magenta, cyan and coral, and nobody can tell what it is doing.

Designed to make you harder to track. Not an invisibility cloak. Every production batch gets filmed under an IR camera, tested against phone face unlock, and checked for night-driving light transmission before it ships.

Three frames, one price

Pick your night.

Each frame carries the same lens. The difference is how much face you want to cover and how loud you want to be about it.

VisorNINE40 Ocean Drive visor sunglasses with a magenta to cyan mirror lens, the NINE40 logo and spectrum bar on the outer temple, and the mark inside the lens

Ocean Drive

$54.95

One continuous lens, ear to ear. Sits somewhere between a ski goggle and a headset without the bulk. Iridescent magenta to cyan mirror on a gloss black frame.

Full wrapBlack frameLogo on templeDay to night
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ShieldNINE40 South Beach flat-top shield sunglasses in gloss white with an electric cyan mirror lens and the NINE40 mark on the lens

South Beach

$54.95

Flat-top single shield with a notched bridge. Gloss white frame, chrome hinges, electric cyan mirror. The one people ask about.

ShieldWhite frameMark outsideDay to night
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SquareNINE40 Neon Driver square sunglasses in thick gloss black acetate with a hot magenta mirror lens, the NINE40 logo and spectrum bar on the outer temple, and the mark inside the lens

Neon Driver

$54.95

The 1980s wedge driver. Thick gloss black acetate, hot magenta mirror, chrome rivets. Wears like a regular pair of sunglasses.

Two lensBlack frameLogo on templeDay to night
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Free shipping on every frame. Sizes S, M and L. Every lens: 940 film, clear at night, dark by noon, polarized, UV400.

NINE40 Ocean Drive visor seen from behind, showing the chrome NINE40 mark thermal-printed on the inner face of the lens
Ocean Drive from the inside. On dark frames the mark sits behind the mirror.
The mark

The spectrum bar is the whole idea.

Violet to red is what you see. Past red the bar fades to black, and the marker sits at 940, the point where the lens stops the light. The slashed zero is the lens doing its job.

  • On the lensThe NINE4Ø mark is thermal-printed onto every lens, small, in the lower outer corner.
  • White framesPrinted on the outer face of the lens, where the chrome catches the light.
  • Dark framesPrinted on the inner face of the lens, and the full logo with the spectrum bar runs along the outer face of the temple.
First run

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