Victory Collection

The Victory Optical Collection revives a line of classic American eyewear designs that have been in the same family for four generations. In 1941, company founder Vincent J. Salierno debuted his first collection of Victory eyewear; the early designs launched the company's reputation for innovation, quality and a design sense that appealed to individuals such as Buddy Holly, Dean Martin, Connie Francis, Phil Silvers, Jerry Lewis and other figures in politics, entertainment and fashion.

Today, Salierno's grandson William Marfuggi has resurrected Victory's signature look in a line of retro-chic eyewear that is drawing a new clientele of fashion-forward individuals. 

Find your Victory Collection specs here at Cateye!

Masunaga

Masunaga is another one of our favorite lines at Cateye. They have been a model of optical excellence since 1905.

The company’s mission statement since the establishment is “We manufacture excellent eyeglasses. We want to make a profit if we can, but we don’t hesitate to take a loss. It is always in our thoughts to manufacture excellent eyeglasses.” These words are still the basis of the conduct code of employees even more than 100 years after its establishment.

American Made - Randolph Engineering

We offer some of the worlds finest eyewear here at Cateye, but our favorites are handcrafted right here in THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA. Randolph Engineering has been handcrafting their eyewear from the finest components found world wide and proudly noted as standard military issue since 1972.

If you are an eyewear connoisseur, then Randolph Engineering should ring a familiar bell. With a rich American History, the company is staying at the forefront of eyewear providers. 

Whether you’re piloting an F18 fighter jet or driving a car, you need the best lenses available to protect your eyes and enhance your vision.  All of RANDOLPH ENGINEERING'S lenses absorb 98-100% of harmful ultraviolet rays and allow a range of 12-18% of visible light to pass through; the ideal comfort level for most wearers. The mineral glass lenses are exceptionally scratch-resistant, and will provide you with absolute distortion-free clarity. They’re also precision ground and chemically tempered for impact resistance that exceeds ANSI Z-803 standards.                        

Randolph Engineering products are famed for their quality and durability. Each pair of RE sunglasses goes through more than 200 production stages – mostly by hand. Randolph even makes their own solder flux. As a result, the frames provide unequaled strength and solder joint integrity.

In Randolph's drive for superior quality, they scour the world for the best components and special alloys – with tight molecular structure to eliminate rusting and oxidation. Randolph Engineering does not compromise quality even when selecting something as trivial as a lens screw. The nose pads are made of soft silicone to prevent the frames from slipping, even during heavy perspiration. While fashion may fade in and out of the marketplace, the quality found in Randolph Engineering products will never go out of style.

Randolph Engineering feels so strongly about the quality of their products that they will repair or replace any broken solder joint for the lifetime of the frame (assuming normal use). 

 Buy American made Randolph Engineering eyewear here at Cateye Spectacle! See you soon.

Caroline Abram's Imaginative Collection Has Arrived!

Here at Cateye Spectacles, we are excited by the Caroline Abram collection of endlessly imaginative and innovative eyewear. We are proud to announce that we now have a large selection of Caroline Abram eyewear and are ready to style you up!

Caroline Abram started as an optician in a family business where she quickly discovered her passion for design. As a young stylist of accessories and jewelry, she creates a universe around the subject she knows best, eyewear. All her inspiration comes from her diverse origin (Caribbean, Indian, French, and Polish).

One foot in France, the other in Senegal. One hand in the jewellery business, the other in the eyewear business. Caroline Abram designs collections that are whimsical, colorful, and luminous! 

Let us help show off your Coloful personality with a chic new pair of spectacles.

 RETROSUPERFUTURE® and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts are delighted to announce a project which brings together Andy Warhol's original artworks and SUPER by RETROSUPERFUTURE®'s distinctive design. In creating this collection of artsy eyewear, the designers have chosen an original series of artworks and have merged them with the brand's iconic silhouettes.
 Here at Cateye we are very excited to be carrying these special edition frames!

Italia Independent is a creative and stylish brand for independent people which blends fashion and design, tradition and innovation.

Italia Independent seeks to update Made in Italy by revisiting the classic icons, operating in the eyewear field creating lifestyle products belonging to different sectors, to export the Italian style into a global world.

 UV LUX® treatment, soft to the touch. Scratch-proof and the frames keep their colour after a long exposure to the sun. I-I has a worldwide patent for this treatment.

I-Thermic butterfly cut sunglasses with thermosensitive varnish that turns on with 26°C. revealing the pied de pull texture.

                     Cateye Spectacles  "Carey" 

From our current collection of bespoke frames is the model Carey.

Carey is shown below being worn on the Arsenio Hall Show by our friend Eddie Murphy.

His lenses are a gradient fade tint, but the frame above is shown with bottle green glass sunglass lenses.

Cateye Spectacles August Lens Promotion

 

                        Incredible August Lens Promotion!!!

During the month of August, Cateye Spectacles is offering our polycarbonate Super Shield anti-reflective lenses at a reduced price.  Super Shield lenses are some of the most scratch resistant lenses made today with multi-coatings, and have an extended warranty.  Regular price for these lenses is 184.00, but during August only, the lenses are only 95.00!!

Grey Transition polycarbonate lenses with our Super Shield are also included with this promotion as well.  Enjoy not having to switch between wearing your prescription sunglasses and glasses this summer and try the Transition lenses. The regular price for these lenses is 264.00, but will be only 159.00 until the end of the month.
 

Hello Kitty | RETROSUPERFUTURE

Daniel Beckerman is the founder of SUPER by RETROSUPERFUTURE® also publishers, with his brother Simon, of PIG Magazine, the most prestigious independent music and fashion magazine in Italy together with PIG Radio, one of the most infuential indie music web-radios on the net.
The idea came out from Daniel when he realized that there was no eyewear brand that was representing a certain type of fashion culture:

“All the company’s that are in the market today are leaded by people that are interested in different, standard and established markets as D&G, Armani, Gucci ecc. What about all the other street couture brands? Together with this nobody was playing fun in eyewear like the great expressions you can see in the clothing business. All shades were black, tortoise, grey and maybe some white or red, that’s it… where are the shades for me and my friends?!?!”

At this point Daniel asked Simon, one of the undiscussed more infuential and forward thinking personality in today’s market, and Sean Beolchini the unmissable piece of the team, to follow him in all of the creative aspects that Super had to face. The Flea markets has been a great inspiration, not otherwise Sean, before Super, had alywas a different shade for the different moods of the day. The problem was that most of them are very bad quality and eye protection is important, something that many people do not underestimate.

The business strategy, if there was one, became to give people something that was the best quality product at the most reasonable price.

Luckily the home of the team was Italy, the best country in which to produce sunglasses. Together with the best manufactures Super has teamed up with one of the most well known german lens company: Zeiss Sunlensess division, that after a 1rst look, joined enthusiastic the project. The 1rst prototypes were produced on winter 2006 and the team, that was wearing them at all the events they attended, realized the immidiate response and success they were having from people. In the meantime the distributor has been found and together with Milan’s shorwroom Pink and Chicco d’Errico, the sales master, Super has done an astonish sales campaign. All the Top stores that were receiving the sunglasses were continuously making reorders selling any colors they had in shop, draining away to the last piece produced.




The introduction on the market of SUPER sunglasses has been such a hit that big names in the industry quickly updated their collections and introduced similar “colorized” sunglasses with multiple colors, confrming and giving credit to SUPER for anticipating this worldwide phenomenon. “Fair enough”.

For the second season, SUPER introduced the 1rst spin-offs from the original model (which was a modern take on the classic vintage wayfarers). They introduced newer shapes like the “Flat Tops” and the “Ciccio”, and the 1rst colored/mirrored Zeiss sun lens made with a special technique called “Flash Electric”. SUPER also introduced various other production techniques like particular prints and special engraving for the 1rst time on these types of sunglasses.

DIGITAL PROGRESSIVES | personalized comfort technology

What are Progressive lenses?

A progressive lens is an amazing piece of engineering, allowing multiple vision fields to be incorporated into a single lens without any clear distinction between the fields themselves. The power in the lenses "progressively" changes from far-to intermediate to your full reading power. This is why progressive lenses are often referred to as "no-line" bifocals or trifocals.

And it's why progressive lenses are ideal for patients who have presbyopia – a vision condition marked by a decrease in the ability to focus sharply on nearby objects.

As we age naturally, our ability to see nearby objects and objects in the distance can decrease. Progressive lenses address separate visual needs in one lens – usually with a "distance viewing" field build into the upper portion of the lens and a "near vision" field built into the lower portion. Rather than a line separating these areas, they are "blended" together, often with the middle portion of the lens serving as intermediate vision correction when necessary.

Unlike traditional bifocals or trifocals, there are no visible lines separating the different fields of a progressive lens. Your eyes are seen clearly behind the progressive eyeglasses, you've got the same "look" as eyeglass wearers often half your age, and there are no "lens lines" to distract your vision.

How it started

On 17 November 1846, the 30-year old mechanic Carl Zeiss opened a workshop and a small store in Jena’s Neugasse No. 7. In just a few months, Zeiss, who not only had a solid theoretical basis and good practical experience, but was also well acquainted with scientists and mathematicians at the University of Jena, had already found clientele for whom he repaired scientific apparatuses and instruments or produced them according to the customer’s specifications. In addition, he offered spectacles, chemical scales, drawing apparatuses, telescopes, etc.

In 1847, his business success encouraged Zeiss to hire an assistant and an apprentice, and to rent two workrooms in Wagnergasse No. 34. In the summer of 1847, following the advice of his teacher, the botanist Mattias Jacob Schleiden, Zeiss devoted his attention to building a simple microscope. In September 1847, he produced the first loupe microscopes.

At the beginning of the 1850’s, there was an increase in the demand for observation instruments from the Zeiss workshops, which now enjoyed a good reputation among microscopists due to their meticulous workmanship. At the time, the level of interest shown by scientists and medical professionals in compound microscopes was growing because these were the only instruments that provided the higher magnifications they wanted.
The time-consuming trial-and-error method required to build optical systems initially kept Zeiss from building such instruments, particularly as he was convinced that there must be some scientific way of determining the individual elements of the optical systems. However, the competition forced him to build compound microscopes in the traditional way from 1857 onwards.
Early Years

Carl Zeiss is a company with a long tradition that was founded by Carl Zeiss in 1846 in Jena as a precision mechanics and optics workshop.
From 1872, microscopes made in Jena were built on the basis of scientific calculations and therefore displayed considerably improved optical properties. This technological lead, which earned the company global recognition, is attributable to the physicist and mathematician Ernst Abbe, who became a dormant partner in the optical workshop in 1876.

Abbe’s theory of image formation in the microscope and the “sine condition” that bears his name form the basis of all high-performance optics




Design
ZEISS Progressive Individual 2 (Clarlet Gradal Individual EyeFit)




The most individualised ZEISS progressive lens with optimum near zone.
ZEISS progressive lenses are now more individualized than ever before. Thanks to EyeFit Technology, the latest generation progressive lenses make it possible to also take into account the wearer’s personal visual behavior in near vision. This focuses the lenses sharply on the requirements of each individual patient, therefore guaranteeing natural vision at every distance.

The attractiveness of this leading edge product is further enhanced by technical innovations such as increased consideration of the position of the eye‘s centre of rotation, further reduction of the lens thickness and practical improvements for the patient consultation process in your practice.

The technical innovations at a glance

In addition to the outstanding features of its predecessor, the following innovations are integrated into the new product:

Individualisation of the near zones thanks to EyeFit Technology by ZEISS.
Optimised C.O.R.E. Technology allowing increased consideration of the eye‘s centre of rotation for each individual wearer.
Thinnest ZEISS progressive lens thanks to new mathematical optimisation methods.
New optional order parameters for more flexible lens choice.
For frames with high curvature available as ZEISS Single Vision Individual Sport (Gradal Individual Loop)

ZEISS Progressive Individual 2
The benefits for you & your patients at a glance.
The benefits for you at a glance:
Highest level of personalised patient care
Differentiates your practice by offering leading edge technology
Enhances premium product mix
More satisfi ed patients by solving a key concern of presbyobic patients` near vision performance
Possibility of selecting easy or expert order placement
OPTIMA online order placement free of charge

The benefits for your patients at a glance:
Natural vision from far to near
Maximum visual comfort thanks to wider zone sizes depending on wearer’s profile
Immediate wearer acceptance thanks to individualised balancing of all visual zone sizes
Individualised design for every patient
Optimum cosmetic appearance thanks to thin and light lenses