Hi just subscribed. I was trying to get information on sunglasses then i found you channel. Do you still put Maui Jim in Legendary? as i heard they have been sold to a massive company. i was looking at this glasses brand. Thanks
come across your channel I find your videos really interesting and learnt a lot. Thank you! Your videos talks about brands I've not heard of and has got me thinking to think more about my next pairs of glasses. However, I notice you don't talk about Lindberg. Can you tell me your opinion on Lindberg? I owned a pair and loved them! Wondered if you think they should be a stable to choose this brand? 😊
are aspherical lenses worth it? you probably have a vid on this subject maybe? frame 52 17 pd 28 presciption -2 , -1.25, 80. Would aspherical help me get that outer edge thinner? 1.67 hi
I just started a new job as a sales rep for an optician here in Sweden and I must say thank you. Your videos have helped a lot of what to think about when helping people choose glasses. It is such a fascinating industry to work within! Very complicated but also rewarding. Thank you for the great videos! ❤
Absolutely thank you so much for everything! The wife and I had an amazing time. Everyone at the shop was top notch and wanted to help you be the best you can be. Truly the best experience we have had anywhere in the world. You were amazing at helping get the best look as well as helping me to get outside of my comfort zone to more options that will enhance my life. The eye doctors and staff were stellar. I am horrible with names but you know you you are. Adam Aziza and others.
Hey Dallas, It was a true pleasure to host you both. Thank you for travelling to us and I can't wait for you to get your new glasses. Have an awesome Christmas.
Thank you for your information. You inspired me to get a gradient blue tint on my glasses this time. I’m 60 this year and can no longer wear my contacts. With your help I decided to get daring. I will step up my game on my next pair. I love watching you and your passion for eyewear.
You took my question! Thank you. As to orange frames, I have two (out of five pairs). My work glasses are orange aluminum Prodesign from a decade ago. I put Photogrey Extra glass in those, and they look great, as you suggested. I also have Ovvo frames that, much like some Reykjavik Eyes, have orange on the inside of the temples with grey exterior. I put Transitions amethyst lenses (more grey than amethyst) with a red flash. Love them. As a photographer with a background in color theory, I suggest looking to the color wheel for ideas. Orange, being a secondary color, is complemented (wrong word, flattered is better) by other secondary colors, which in this case are green or purple. I chose purple. Thank you for your efforts doing these presentations and for your passion. HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
9:45 eyeweare MADE IN UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧 12:50 Robert's work on sustainability, eco friendly eyewear ♻️ 14:42 how Robert chooses brand for the store, support for independent brands, best selling brands, his philosophy 😎 19:14 Cazal unveiling
Love your new Lucas de Stael leather frame. Great choice. And that Cazal is really cool too. Your passion for all things eyewear makes your TH-cam channel the best. Great questions and answers 👍
Lucas de stael look beautiful, elegant and definitely eye catching in my opinion Thank you for answering my question! It's been a great journey following you, I learned a lot from high quality micro brands to tinting. Thank you again for allowing us to pick your brain, you have great insight, history, experience and most of all passion! Even though I wore eyeglasses most of my life, didn't have any knowledge of better brands that aren't mainstream and all the nooks and crannies that make a eyewear great. Thank you for opening Pandora's box of eyewear! Merry Christmas!
Not a question, but I just wanted to say keep up the good work. Your content and my part time work in the world of eyewear has completely changed my life. I had been very unhappy with my college major for a while, but couldn’t picture myself going through any other career path. Now after being in the eyewear industry for 2 years and learning a lot through your content and through my work I have found a new passion and decided to change my college major so I could not only participate in the world of eyewear as a hobby, but also as a life long career. Right now I work for a large corporation, but eventually I would like to do what you do and have more selection as to what eyewear I work with and be able to move towards pushing away “buying brands” and work towards educating people over the importance of quality. I really do appreciate the content you produce and encourage you to continue providing fun educational information to the public. Great work Robert and everyone else on the Spectacle Factory team who makes these incredible videos possible. You all really do make a difference with the content you produce. I just hope your channel can grow even further.
@@thespectaclefactory definitely! I am ready to start my eyewear journey and hope that one day I can work with great eyewear companies like you do and maybe even be able to start informative TH-cam content one day to educate people. I currently am in contact with a company that has a similar initiative to yours and I hope that I can start doing what I love through them. I definitely will reach out for future career advice though. You are the expert. Keep making great content and continue to make the word of eyewear a better place.
I agree, and that's a good way to look at it. Thank you for noticing 😜 and thank you for all your support this year. Still hope to make a pair for you one day! Have a great Christmas.
I know! In this case I was so glad we got a pure black horn as it's true to the original. I'm excited to see who buys them. Oh and you are welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed
Hi Robert, thank you so much for answering my Question! I've got RE orange Jesper. I'll get the brown with ruby 😊 P.S. I love my BV and RE glasses❤️ I've received many compliments on these glasses, especially RE ones. Wish you a very merry Christmas 🎄
Can you do a video with a bald eyeglass wearer? I would like to hear how fashion and style considerations interact with being bald, while being able to see an actual bald guy trying on different shapes and styles.
Hi Robert, thank you very much for this channel. At 49, I needed to get my very first reading glasses, and my job with multiple computer monitors really makes it more complicated. The glasses are mostly for reading books & working with mobile phones -- don't really need it for looking at monitors, but I was thinking: why not make the most of these glasses by adding anti-blue-ray protection on it, and wear it while working? Well, (rather) blindly, I did some quick research online, and got Varilux Digitime Mid from a local shop, which is great for close-up readings, but totally not working while I was in front of multiple monitors. It even rendered my widescreen useless, because I could only read a very little portion of it (totally negated the reason why I bought the monitor in the first place). I'm not sure if it was a bad lenses job, or it's just what the lenses are. Then I met you & your channel, and because of it I took the plunge to try Zeiss Office Lens. Too bad I'm very far away from England, so I had to get it locally. And it's miles better for working. Thanks for your informative videos. I do have a couple of questions: 1. For mobile-phone using, the Zeiss is still usable, however I found that it looks better if I'm using the Varilux. And somehow the Zeiss would make the sides of the phone don't run parallel to each other (makes the phone trapezium shape instead of rectangular). Is that normal? 2. I've got Zeiss Office Plus. How different/better it would be with the Superb version? Do you think it's worth the (more expensive) cost? Merry Christmas from Indonesia!
Oh my gosh love the Cazal, Rob! Would be so happy if you did stock Linda Farrow ... and Oliver Goldsmith - next time I'm up I will be bringing you a pair of their frames that need a fab lens! Great video as always. See ya soon ☺
HI Robert, I recently discovered your channel and am really pleased to say I feel so much more informed about the often confusing world of glasses. At the age of 53 I have now ordered my first pair ever of glasses having had a recent eye test. I had a tremendous fitting and help from the good people at Niche Bazaar Studio in Glasgow. I was able to communicate so much better with them having watched your videos in recent weeks. I do admit I find myself a little apprehensive about the prospect of wearing glasses for the first time ever as I genuinely don’t know what to expect, perhaps you have some thoughts on this? I must admit I am also excited and willing to embrace the change. I really really like Jacques Marie Mage glasses, don’t know why just something about them I find aesthetically pleasing? I believe you also consider them to be a really good brand also?. They are expensive so I saved up and put money aside over the last month or two to order a pair just today, hopefully I can get them early in the New Year after the holidays 🤞Thanks so much Robert for your enthusiasm on the channel , your videos have been great and such a help to me these last few weeks in preparation for making an informed choice in purchasing my first ever pair of glasses. I hope you and all your team enjoy a happy, healthy and safe Christmas and I very much look forward to whatever you may have coming up on the channel, stay well👍 Andrew
Thanks Andrew, and glad we contributed to your new glasses. JMM are awesome. I understand you feeling aprehensive about wearing glasses. I think that's natural but try to focus on the postives of what they do for you. And try to build a collection over time as wearing just the one pair does reduce your enjoyment of owning them IMO.
come across your channel I find your videos really interesting and learnt a lot. Thank you! Your videos talks about brands I've not heard of and has got me thinking to think more about my next pairs of glasses. However, I notice you don't talk about Lindberg. Can you tell me your opinion on Lindberg? I owned a pair and loved them! Wondered if you think they should be a stable to choose this brand? 😊
Hi David, I did talk about Lindberg in my overrated brands video. BUT that's not to say they aren't great glasses. They are. It's just that if you are considering Lindberg you should really consider Reykjavik Eyes or other similar brands instead. Would be happy to help you select your next pair if you wanted.
Do YOU have any questions for me? Let me know 👇
Thanks for the great video. I was wondering what your thoughts were on Etnia Barcelona glasses. Please let me know. Thanks.
What are your thoughts about Oliver Goldsmith?
Hi just subscribed. I was trying to get information on sunglasses then i found you channel. Do you still put Maui Jim in Legendary? as i heard they have been sold to a massive company. i was looking at this glasses brand. Thanks
come across your channel I find your videos really interesting and learnt a lot. Thank you! Your videos talks about brands I've not heard of and has got me thinking to think more about my next pairs of glasses. However, I notice you don't talk about Lindberg. Can you tell me your opinion on Lindberg? I owned a pair and loved them! Wondered if you think they should be a stable to choose this brand? 😊
are aspherical lenses worth it? you probably have a vid on this subject maybe? frame 52 17 pd 28 presciption -2 , -1.25, 80. Would aspherical help me get that outer edge thinner? 1.67 hi
I just started a new job as a sales rep for an optician here in Sweden and I must say thank you. Your videos have helped a lot of what to think about when helping people choose glasses.
It is such a fascinating industry to work within! Very complicated but also rewarding. Thank you for the great videos! ❤
I'm so glad to help and inspire you. Good luck, Simon!
Absolutely thank you so much for everything! The wife and I had an amazing time.
Everyone at the shop was top notch and wanted to help you be the best you can be.
Truly the best experience we have had anywhere in the world.
You were amazing at helping get the best look as well as helping me to get outside of my comfort zone to more options that will enhance my life.
The eye doctors and staff were stellar. I am horrible with names but you know you you are. Adam Aziza and others.
Hey Dallas,
It was a true pleasure to host you both. Thank you for travelling to us and I can't wait for you to get your new glasses. Have an awesome Christmas.
Thank you for your information. You inspired me to get a gradient blue tint on my glasses this time. I’m 60 this year and can no longer wear my contacts. With your help I decided to get daring. I will step up my game on my next pair. I love watching you and your passion for eyewear.
Thank you Penny. This is why I do what I do! Have a great Christmas and I hope your new glasses come out amazing
You took my question! Thank you.
As to orange frames, I have two (out of five pairs). My work glasses are orange aluminum Prodesign from a decade ago. I put Photogrey Extra glass in those, and they look great, as you suggested.
I also have Ovvo frames that, much like some Reykjavik Eyes, have orange on the inside of the temples with grey exterior. I put Transitions amethyst lenses (more grey than amethyst) with a red flash. Love them.
As a photographer with a background in color theory, I suggest looking to the color wheel for ideas. Orange, being a secondary color, is complemented (wrong word, flattered is better) by other secondary colors, which in this case are green or purple. I chose purple.
Thank you for your efforts doing these presentations and for your passion.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
It was a good question! That's so interesting on colour theory. I'm going to look it up
Oh and Merry Christmas to you, too 🙏
9:45 eyeweare MADE IN UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧
12:50 Robert's work on sustainability, eco friendly eyewear ♻️
14:42 how Robert chooses brand for the store, support for independent brands, best selling brands, his philosophy 😎
19:14 Cazal unveiling
Thanks for this!
My pleasure 😀
Love your new Lucas de Stael leather frame. Great choice. And that Cazal is really cool too.
Your passion for all things eyewear makes your TH-cam channel the best. Great questions and answers 👍
Thank you Robert. If *you* like my new glasses, that's a huge compliment! It's my first pair of LDS and they actually exceeded my expectations.
Lucas de stael look beautiful, elegant and definitely eye catching in my opinion
Thank you for answering my question!
It's been a great journey following you, I learned a lot from high quality micro brands to tinting.
Thank you again for allowing us to pick your brain, you have great insight, history, experience and most of all passion!
Even though I wore eyeglasses most of my life, didn't have any knowledge of better brands that aren't mainstream and all the nooks and
crannies that make a eyewear great.
Thank you for opening Pandora's box of eyewear!
Merry Christmas!
Happy Christmas to you too, thanks for all of your support! And I hope to continue to entertain you 😅
Thank you for the information and being real and bringing great brands to us.
Thank YOU for your support
Is the sound better this time?? 🔊
Definitely
Not a question, but I just wanted to say keep up the good work. Your content and my part time work in the world of eyewear has completely changed my life. I had been very unhappy with my college major for a while, but couldn’t picture myself going through any other career path. Now after being in the eyewear industry for 2 years and learning a lot through your content and through my work I have found a new passion and decided to change my college major so I could not only participate in the world of eyewear as a hobby, but also as a life long career. Right now I work for a large corporation, but eventually I would like to do what you do and have more selection as to what eyewear I work with and be able to move towards pushing away “buying brands” and work towards educating people over the importance of quality. I really do appreciate the content you produce and encourage you to continue providing fun educational information to the public. Great work Robert and everyone else on the Spectacle Factory team who makes these incredible videos possible. You all really do make a difference with the content you produce. I just hope your channel can grow even further.
Thank you so much! And good luck with your career. If you ever need any help or advice, please contact me
@@thespectaclefactory definitely! I am ready to start my eyewear journey and hope that one day I can work with great eyewear companies like you do and maybe even be able to start informative TH-cam content one day to educate people. I currently am in contact with a company that has a similar initiative to yours and I hope that I can start doing what I love through them. I definitely will reach out for future career advice though. You are the expert. Keep making great content and continue to make the word of eyewear a better place.
Love the channel, nice watch too! Anything that touches your skin should be as high quality (not necessarily luxury brand) as possible.
I agree, and that's a good way to look at it. Thank you for noticing 😜 and thank you for all your support this year. Still hope to make a pair for you one day! Have a great Christmas.
@@thespectaclefactory yes hopefully soon. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
those Cazal are awesome!! thanks for taking time to answer some cool questions!!
I know! In this case I was so glad we got a pure black horn as it's true to the original. I'm excited to see who buys them.
Oh and you are welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed
Cazal is made for hip hop artists. Bold combo of black and gold, just the way they love it
More Cazal content coming soon!
@@thespectaclefactory great, I love watching your streams, always classy and informative. Keep it up!
Hi Robert, thank you so much for answering my Question! I've got RE orange Jesper. I'll get the brown with ruby 😊
P.S. I love my BV and RE glasses❤️ I've received many compliments on these glasses, especially RE ones. Wish you a very merry Christmas 🎄
The RE was my suggestion, wasn't it? So that makes it even more rewarding 😜. Thanks for taking my advice . Have an amazing Christmas and stay in touch
Yes🙌🏻 it was indeed! The best frame, as you’ve mentioned many times! So light and stylish ❤and the lens fitting is perfect🙌🏻🙌🏻
Can you do a video with a bald eyeglass wearer? I would like to hear how fashion and style considerations interact with being bald, while being able to see an actual bald guy trying on different shapes and styles.
Hi Robert, thank you very much for this channel. At 49, I needed to get my very first reading glasses, and my job with multiple computer monitors really makes it more complicated. The glasses are mostly for reading books & working with mobile phones -- don't really need it for looking at monitors, but I was thinking: why not make the most of these glasses by adding anti-blue-ray protection on it, and wear it while working?
Well, (rather) blindly, I did some quick research online, and got Varilux Digitime Mid from a local shop, which is great for close-up readings, but totally not working while I was in front of multiple monitors. It even rendered my widescreen useless, because I could only read a very little portion of it (totally negated the reason why I bought the monitor in the first place). I'm not sure if it was a bad lenses job, or it's just what the lenses are.
Then I met you & your channel, and because of it I took the plunge to try Zeiss Office Lens. Too bad I'm very far away from England, so I had to get it locally. And it's miles better for working. Thanks for your informative videos.
I do have a couple of questions:
1. For mobile-phone using, the Zeiss is still usable, however I found that it looks better if I'm using the Varilux. And somehow the Zeiss would make the sides of the phone don't run parallel to each other (makes the phone trapezium shape instead of rectangular). Is that normal?
2. I've got Zeiss Office Plus. How different/better it would be with the Superb version? Do you think it's worth the (more expensive) cost?
Merry Christmas from Indonesia!
Very helpful & informative i must say 🕶 👓
Thank you, I try to help
I have a MASUNAGA GMS- 804 FRAME THAT HAS ACETATE INSERTS. IS THERE A WAY TO CLEAN AND REFRESH THE LOOKS OF THE ACETATE?
Oh my gosh love the Cazal, Rob! Would be so happy if you did stock Linda Farrow ... and Oliver Goldsmith - next time I'm up I will be bringing you a pair of their frames that need a fab lens! Great video as always. See ya soon ☺
You would rock the Cazal - would be a nice addition to your collection. Thank you ❤️
HI Robert, I recently discovered your channel and am really pleased to say I feel so much more informed about the often confusing world of glasses. At the age of 53 I have now ordered my first pair ever of glasses having had a recent eye test. I had a tremendous fitting and help from the good people at Niche Bazaar Studio in Glasgow. I was able to communicate so much better with them having watched your videos in recent weeks. I do admit I find myself a little apprehensive about the prospect of wearing glasses for the first time ever as I genuinely don’t know what to expect, perhaps you have some thoughts on this? I must admit I am also excited and willing to embrace the change. I really really like Jacques Marie Mage glasses, don’t know why just something about them I find aesthetically pleasing? I believe you also consider them to be a really good brand also?. They are expensive so I saved up and put money aside over the last month or two to order a pair just today, hopefully I can get them early in the New Year after the holidays 🤞Thanks so much Robert for your enthusiasm on the channel , your videos have been great and such a help to me these last few weeks in preparation for making an informed choice in purchasing my first ever pair of glasses. I hope you and all your team enjoy a happy, healthy and safe Christmas and I very much look forward to whatever you may have coming up on the channel, stay well👍 Andrew
Thanks Andrew, and glad we contributed to your new glasses. JMM are awesome.
I understand you feeling aprehensive about wearing glasses. I think that's natural but try to focus on the postives of what they do for you. And try to build a collection over time as wearing just the one pair does reduce your enjoyment of owning them IMO.
I thought Tom Davies moved production to the UK. All of his glasses are made in London?
You appear to be correct! I apologise for the error.
Definitely need to go national 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🥰
Thanks Helena! People already come to us from all over the UK and the world, so the plan is to set up a store in the US next.
I have a big face how to i find frames to fit there always to small
I have a quick question what do you think about the Randy Jackson eyewear brand?
Favorite brands with collections of transparent/champagne/clear frames? Bit disappointed with my moscots
Barton Perreira, Gast, Gucci, Walter & Herbert, Anglo American Optical, all better quality than Moscot. BP probably the best.
What are the lightest eyeglass frames besides Flair Pure with bio-steel with and without nose pads.
I'd suggest Reykjavik Eyes!
Rob, quick question but do customers get a zeiss cleaning cloth when you order a frame with smartlife lenses?
come across your channel I find your videos really interesting and learnt a lot. Thank you! Your videos talks about brands I've not heard of and has got me thinking to think more about my next pairs of glasses. However, I notice you don't talk about Lindberg. Can you tell me your opinion on Lindberg? I owned a pair and loved them! Wondered if you think they should be a stable to choose this brand? 😊
Hi David,
I did talk about Lindberg in my overrated brands video. BUT that's not to say they aren't great glasses. They are. It's just that if you are considering Lindberg you should really consider Reykjavik Eyes or other similar brands instead.
Would be happy to help you select your next pair if you wanted.
@@thespectaclefactory I'll be sure to watch your 'overrated brands' video :)
i want You to do a photofusion extragrey and diamond flash lenses
Can you get a tint on ziess glass lenses?
Yep! We can do it for you
How do you become an optometrist. What do you do after secondary school
Why is RayBan so low rated?
Can you recommend a good eye studio in London.
There's a reason lots of our customers come to us from London!
Huh? They are made in Germany, what do you mean?
Do you have Ted Baker brand ? Or are they too cheap ?
It's not the price as we have glasses around that price. But they aren't the best quality