Swiss Horn specs
| vacant_gesture |
 Posted: Sun, 28/01/2007 - 11:18pm |
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I've been looking for a new pair of glasses frames for a while now and have discovered I'm VERY picky...finally found a pair I kinda liked at David Clulow for £150 (Oliver Peoples) and was just about to buy before they were upstaged by a pair of Swiss Horns! Only problem is that they're £600 which was kinda WAY above my budget...has anyone ever imported frames by Swiss Horn for cheaper? Surely the UK high st must the the most expensive place to buy them...? |
| Ruben |
Posted: Sun, 28/01/2007 - 11:21pm |
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andymakesglasses will be able to help I'm sure. This is his specialist subject. |
| andymakesglasses |
Posted: Mon, 29/01/2007 - 12:14am |
 
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handmade horn eyewear is always going to be much more expensive than mass-produced Chinese-made eyewear, there's not much you can do about that really, you're paying for the craftsmanship and attention to detail is the £600 what you've been quoted via an optician or direct from Swisshorn? |
| SMACKLOAF |
Posted: Mon, 29/01/2007 - 12:30am |
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try operaopera in covent garden or,,. this place just off brick lane,.. il get the name for you soon, cant remeber off the top of my head both deal with such link ups |
| vacant_gesture |
Posted: Mon, 29/01/2007 - 10:44pm |
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Ta for the help guys, much appreciated! £600 was the price David Clulow quoted me so with lens inc. (I have a horrendously high prescription so require major thinning on the lenses) it would come to £900 which is pretty steep for me. Looked around South Ken and the net and there don't seem to be many places that stock them, so any hook-ups would be grand! VG |
| doo888 |
Posted: Mon, 29/01/2007 - 11:00pm |
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Cheap i suppose, i saw a pair at the Mikli flagship store in Hong Kong made of tortoise shell going for 30,000HKD! |
| andymakesglasses |
Posted: Mon, 29/01/2007 - 11:26pm |
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Ta for the help guys, much appreciated! £600 was the price David Clulow quoted me so with lens inc. (I have a horrendously high prescription so require major thinning on the lenses) it would come to £900 which is pretty steep for me. Looked around South Ken and the net and there don't seem to be many places that stock them, so any hook-ups would be grand! VG what's your prescription? mine's very high but 300 quid for lenses is pretty steep, even for high index ones try contacting Swisshorn direct http://swisshorn-eyewear.com might be able to get them cheaper than via David Clulow |
| andymakesglasses |
Posted: Mon, 29/01/2007 - 11:29pm |
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Cheap i suppose, i saw a pair at the Mikli flagship store in Hong Kong made of tortoise shell going for 30,000HKD! I think the most expensive frames at the moment (not including any handmade gold stuff) are TD Tom Davies http://www.tdtomdavies.com pretty sure someone told me some of the bespoke frames are 6 grand, but he does fly out to measure your face wherever you live! he used to work for the company that I got my first job with (he'd moved onto better things before I started) |
| vacant_gesture |
Posted: Tue, 30/01/2007 - 11:45pm |
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Thanks for the link Andy - I checked that out actually and it doesn't seem very well designed, can't find much on there so I guess I'll ring them myself. I know they're handmade, but I should be able to get a model no. from David Clulow, right? My prescription is insane, like -8.50 with contacts so step that up to glasses...basically blind as a moley mole! |
| andymakesglasses |
Posted: Tue, 30/01/2007 - 11:52pm |
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that is pretty much blind I thought I was bad with -7 in contacts David Clulow should be able to give you the model number I'd have thought |
| eliot_a |
Posted: Wed, 31/01/2007 - 12:28am |
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i thought i was blind with -2.5! |
| andymakesglasses |
Posted: Wed, 31/01/2007 - 5:43pm |
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10% off at David Clulow from 1st February for 4 days if that's any help |
