The Spectacles Thread.

[baseline]

Any recommendation of shops to make lens only for a frame I bought else where? Degree 650 for both eyes, Hoya 1.67 or 1.74 index, anyone knows the price around?

 

[oldbreadstinks]

swissflex for most people is no-no. Too loose no grip at all. To have grip, a frame must not be too soft or flex.

Do you know how much $ that lady spent? 6 yrs just the amount of time spent, but maybe just "look look see see" only & not actually spending to buy.

If anyone found the right fit, then anything else extra just spares ofcos, unless you can find something better than the current pair, then it becomes a replacement frame, becos frankly once your fit is upgraded, very hard for one to adjust & accept the older & less-fitting pair.

My Dun is still a new frame which i chanced upon 2 months ago. So im waiting to see how well i can adjust to it. If it doesnt get rejected by my face, it could also jolly well going to be my frame for life. I should accept the fact that there is no perfit fit in the universe, so should just try to get used to the best available, readjust my expectations & live on with it.

she has a few pairs of glasses but non that she considers as "that's me!"
they're what she calls "comfortable for wearing glasses "

they're actually brands of glasses which are custom fitted to the head meaning someone has to be trained to fit and measure your head and order the glasses to measurements.
but didn't make it to sg due to trade political issues.
and lol not economically also since it requires skill and most shops have serial job hoppers for staff.

 

[ahboy82]

fakes are actually quite prevalent in singapore.
and the sad thing is a lot of optical bosses don't know the stuff is fake.
it falls under the "if it's too good to be true, it is"
like the contact lens case recently. sellers actually thought they struck gold and bypass local suppliers to get a cheaper price which is actually done for certain stuff in smaller quantities but sadly it didn't work out.

I've personally came across a shop that supplies fake goods to other shops and tried to pass it off as real stuff.
it's possible the ones buying to resell actually thought they were real. some were very close.

a place I've worked for had a magically wonderful person who was so generous to use his contacts in china to bring in "shui huo" and tried to sell to the shop owner
the boss asked me what I thought but insisted it's real and he got the deal because he's a boss and the guy gave him face.
I told him the shape's wrong though it's really close. and the hell, all came with the wrong cases. the rarer ones not the commonly seen cases. even if you stole the goods as he said(one of the stories is the staff in the factory stole the goods for resale)how the hell did you have a bunch of new cases for you to pick up?
not to mention although luxotica took over coach.
the dealer bought in coach from the same contacts. with the old cases which weren't used for 2-3 years? (recently under luxotica they've actually changed to that)
and all coach sunglasses are 2 tone especially that particular model which I've personally came into contact with before.
that particular piece was 1 tone.

the old man's screwed and he doesn't believe his trusted supplier aka contact in china would screw him

do u happen to patronize seng li at queensway before? pls tell me they are selling authentic stuff

 

[oldbreadstinks]

im definitely no pretender like that tekken u encountered la. i just meant that if i happened to come across any more perfect-enough frame for me i will whack, but that doesnt mean it's easy to find. I have spent 30 yrs hunting down the elusive fit, and till today i can only say that Dun is only the closest i have come to in terms of quality, functionality, fit & asethetic ALL In. And i still got to lower down my expectation & try to get used to Dun fitting. Sometimes along the journey i have managed to own exceptionally comfy frames eg Slights, but v comfy frames like these often come with other problems like nosepads fitting, and the material too soft that the shape gets bent easily out of shape & doesnt quite return to its original shape etc. In recent years korea plastic frames also offer exceptional lightness & comfort but being plastic there is no nosepads & slippage is one main concern and plastic material tends to get distorted & loose pretty soon.

I am a normal end user. I dont look for exceptionally branded stuff. The right fit for me. Metallic greyish blue is a very nice colour tone against my skin. Curved & flexible temples, light, higher-positioned nosepads with as little or no adjustments needed as possible. I think thats the direction i am going.

if you're married , trust me, if you describe your wife the same way you describe your glasses she'll love you forever.

Korean frames do come with nose pads

if you do not want them to slip off assuming your bridge is not too flat.
and its a plastic frame with proper Asian fit or nosepads.and the frame is big enough it can be adjusted to stay on.
under normal circumstances.
not for super high powered people

 

[oldbreadstinks]

do u happen to patronize seng li at queensway before? pls tell me they are selling authentic stuff

they do I think last heard they're one of the three authorized dealers for raybans in the mall.

 

[Seannie]

For those who pmed me and are eager on "Dun" frames, you can try:-

Spectacle Culture Pte Ltd
3 Pickering Street, #01-47 Nankin Row

It is just opposite Hong Lim Complex. Closed on Sun & PH. Mrt Station Chinatown Exit E.

Alternatively, Nanyang Optical & Shinagawa should also carry them.

 

[oldbreadstinks]

swissflex for most people is no-no. Too loose no grip at all. To have grip, a frame must not be too soft or flex.

for swissflex to fit your size must fit the glasses.
like example the full rimlon ones had 54 for the largest lens size
but mine I extended the rimless to 58
low power as well so there's no mass to propeller the frame off my face.
it's simply too light to require a grip. I can do jumping jacks during rt with them.

 

[fourseasons2000]

Do they hv rimless? What is the price range like?

For those who pmed me and are eager on "Dun" frames, you can try:-

Spectacle Culture Pte Ltd
3 Pickering Street, #01-47 Nankin Row

It is just opposite Hong Lim Complex. Closed on Sun & PH. Mrt Station Chinatown Exit E.

Alternatively, Nanyang Optical & Shinagawa should also carry them.

 

[vaped]

Hoya 1.6 transition lens

Hello all, i just checked and found that for hoya 1.6 transition lens is $280. and if its astig is above 2, it is higher. is that the normal retail price? thanks.

 

[momochan]

anyone know what pair is this? looks kinda like a ray ban..

anyone?

 

[stonesix]

Hello all, i just checked and found that for hoya 1.6 transition lens is $280. and if its astig is above 2, it is higher. is that the normal retail price? thanks.

Spherical or aspherical lens?

 

[Vincent87]

Hi guys im newbie for spec and a 1st timer.. anyone can intro me where to buy to prevent from carrot head.. I prefer hoya lens, frame normal will do.. many thanks in advance xD

 

[ohj81]

Anyone tried ASOptics at Lucky Plaza Basement before?

 

[Perdedor]

anyone?

probably a 2011 frame?

the closest i've seen is this:
Ray Ban RX5279 2012 A Ray Ban Designer Glasses - Lowest prices on Ray Ban glasses, starting from S$102.95

2012 frame, havana brown

 

[match89]

any recommendations for shops near east/north-east side that carries a good range of designs? and reasonably priced of coz

 

[Perdedor]

ray ban wearers, im contemplating between a 53mm and a 55mm RX5279.

is it normal for the temple hinge (without spring) to hyper-extend a little to fit my face?

 

[vaped]

Gosh..didnt ask tho.

 

[Raptor1]

anybody have any comments on hamamoto eyewears? I quite like the design, and comfort, but not too sure about quality?

I was quoted about $600 for SFT 1.67 Hoya with hamamoto frames, and $660 for SFT 1.67 with Dun eyewears.

 

[oldbreadstinks]

Secret Revealed

There are many obscure tools for adjusting your glasses, some used to a lesser or greater extent by the opticians on the high street.
Here we explore one of the most common spectacles adjustment processes. A chap once said “With all of your years in optics you must have secrets, some possibly even a trifle guilty, which you have never revealed. How about telling, perhaps even publishing some of them?”

“Certainly not , those secrets, especially the guilty ones will go to the grave. Such revelation would implicate many opticians”

And so the chap is prepared to reveal, not all, but just one of the many deceptions visited on a daily basis upon the unsuspecting and wholly trusting members of the public.

“My glasses are a little uncomfortable, could you adjust them for me” requests the unsuspecting and wholly trusting member of the public (hereinafter, in the interest of brevity, referred to as the u&wtmotp).

“Certainly, Sir/Madam” replies the courteous and diligent optician.

/Aside/ “they look alright to me, not much I can do to improve them.” And there begins the universal and long established, but totally reprehensible, gentle art of the BENCH REST. The courteous and diligent optician removes the offending spectacles from the u&wtmotp takes them into the back office , out of sight of the aforementioned u&wtmotp, places them carefully on a bench and allows them to rest for a few minutes. After a suitable pause he returns to the showroom and with great concern and just a hint of histrioncs returns them to their rightful place on the face of the u&wtmotp carefully checking with a light touch and painstaking observation that they are exactly as they should be.

“How do they feel now” comes the rhetorical question .

“Oh much better, thank you very much, quite comfortable, excellent, Thank you, thank you, good day”.

lol I think this is pretty common here and almost exclusively done to one type of customer


edit: just a feeling, correct me if I'm wrong... you'e giving off the vibe you got cheated often previously? you seem to have some aggression towards opticians

 

[oldbreadstinks]

anybody have any comments on hamamoto eyewears? I quite like the design, and comfort, but not too sure about quality?

I was quoted about $600 for SFT 1.67 Hoya with hamamoto frames, and $660 for SFT 1.67 with Dun eyewears.

haven't heard of anything bad about them? then again never seen much wearers for them?
but generally I rarely hear complains about them and their entire sub group