Prophecy X guarantees maximum spontaneous compatibility at first glance.
The Prophecy X expands Wetzlich's portfolio of premium progressive lenses. The key feature of this new progressive lens is the automatic selection of an inner or bilateral progressive variant, perfectly tailored to the wearer's prescription. This new design represents a significant advancement of the long-established Prophecy design, which utilizes the familiar parameters of HSA, pantoscopic tilt, and lens angle for complete customization, thus guaranteeing extremely stable vision zones and a smooth progression.
Today, progressive lenses are primarily judged by opticians and wearers based on two criteria: Firstly, spontaneous tolerance, meaning rapid adaptation and minimal adjustment time. Secondly, ease of fitting, resulting in fewer errors and therefore fewer complaints. The Prophecy X, with its advanced technology and adaptability, specifically addresses these needs. Both criteria are met through automatic design selection and the new intelligent utility value calculation, which considers not only individual parameters but also the wearer's natural accommodative ability.
“This enables us to offer a special satisfaction guarantee: We guarantee the end consumer a full right of return for a period of six months from the delivery date. If they are not satisfied, we will exchange the product for another product – even with different features – in accordance with the regulations of the compatibility guarantee, or credit the optician with the purchase price of the lenses upon return,” explains Wetzlich Managing Director Florian Gisch.
No further design decisions are needed
Prophecy X technology analyzes the wearer's individual measurements and automatically recognizes when a bilateral progressive design offers clear advantages. This ensures that every customer receives the optimally tailored progressive lens – precisely adapted to their personal vision needs. This individualized design selection guarantees maximum immediate comfort and greatly simplifies the optician's design decision: The automatic selection of the ideal lens design is absolutely accurate. This advanced technology and the maximum adaptability of Prophecy X make it incredibly easy to provide the best possible vision with progressive lenses, risk-free.
While not every visual requirement necessitates a bilaterally progressive design, many eyeglass wearers benefit significantly from it. Particularly with high additions, strong spherical or cylindrical corrections, and complex visual habits in the intermediate and near ranges, a bilateral design offers clear optical advantages: for example, improved image quality, smooth transitions, and a wider field of view.
Individual parameters and natural accommodation
Modern lens designs either take individual parameters into account or, if no data is available, resort to standard parameters. In some cases, this can lead to an undesirable positive effect – so-called overcompensation – which negatively impacts spontaneous tolerance or night vision.
A crucial factor for compatibility is therefore the precise calculation of the viewing angle and the targeted consideration of the wearer's accommodation ability. Only when the conversion of the lens's performance is optimally adapted to natural visual behavior can the full potential of the lens design be realized.
The Prophecy X is ideally suited to diverse vision needs and ensures excellent initial comfort, even with higher additions and astigmatism. This is achieved, among other things, by the fact that the new progressive lens from Wetzlich simulates the entire eye movement pattern – based on the frame shape and individual wearing data. This allows every point of the lens to be optimally adapted to the actual wearing situation.
Optimized image quality
By incorporating natural accommodation, image sharpness is improved across the entire viewing path – even in peripheral vision, thus achieving optimized image quality. And this is achieved almost without peripheral blurring, which typically occurs when looking through the lenses at an angle. This blurring is specifically minimized by the new design, which dynamically adapts to the viewing direction – for consistently high visual quality in everyday life and a clearer visual experience in every situation.
Traditional lens designs are usually unable to achieve this. In contrast, the underlying new Wetzlich technology integrates the individual's accommodation behavior directly into the lens calculation for every gaze direction and distance. It also takes into account the so-called accommodative object space – the area in which the wearer can clearly focus, or accommodate, with every eye movement. Gisch explains: "This allows us to achieve smart and comfortable vision with maximum immediate tolerance."