Where a pair of glasses gives out

Everything that fails on sunglasses fails at a hinge. It is the one part that moves, it moves several times a day, and it is the part nobody checks in a photograph. The frame and the lens get looked at; the hinge is what decides how long you keep them.

The product photographs on this page are the most accurate description of this piece. Everything you can see in them is what arrives.

Where the money goes, and where it does not

On sunglasses the cost sits in the lens and the hinge. A lens is a stack of layers rather than a single tinted sheet, and a hinge is the one part that gets used several times a day for years. Cheap pairs save on both, and you find out which one they skimped on within a season.

None of that was cut here. What was removed is the part that has nothing to do with the glasses: the display stand, the shop floor, the distributor taking a cut on the way. We sell direct, so the retail margin that normally sits on top of a pair built like this is simply not in the price.

Same object, fewer hands. That is the entire trick, and there is nothing else to it.

• Sold direct — no retail margin stacked on the price
• Supplied with a box
• In stock and ready to ship
• Free global returns