Persol Glasses in the making

A lot of people think that sunglasses are injection molded. And some of the mass produced ones are.  But the best sunglasses are made from cellulose acetate and milled out of sheet of material using a complex sequence of operations mostly done by hand.  Here is a fantastic and hypnotic look inside the Persol factory.  If you love to drive, Persol glasses are what you want to protect your eyes from dashboard glare - til Autodromo comes out with shades, that is ;-)

Made by Hand from Persol on Vimeo.

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[syed]

i have owned several pairs of Persols in the past ( i have 2 pairs in the drawer now)-----and ALL of them have broken almost instantly........beautiful looking, but fragile as hell!