Frames you don’t
have to explain.

First launched in 1957, the 649’s fusion of distinctive design and cutting-edge technology has made it one of the most enduring sunglass shapes ever drawn. The name comes from the Turin tram line it was built for — a frame made for drivers, not for fashion, which is exactly why fashion kept it.

Two things make every Persol unmistakable. The Supreme Arrow on the temple — hand-finished, engraveable, carried on every frame since the beginning. And the Meflecto: patented in the 1930s, the world’s first flexible stem system, built by threading nylon and metal cylinders through acetate over a core of harmonic steel. More than ten working steps. Zero pressure on the head. Nothing else is made this way.

Caviar Eyewear is built around hand-set Swarovski crystal — placed by hand, one stone at a time. Not printed. Not stamped. The frames catch light the way good jewelry does, because that is what they are.

The Caviar customer isn’t shopping a sale. She is looking for something that doesn’t exist in the mall, doesn’t appear in any department-store catalog, and doesn’t require explanation to the right person. Each pair is optician-fitted in Los Angeles and finished by hand.