RETROSPECS

RetroSpecs & Co. was founded in the back of an 18-foot recreational vehicle in 1992. Jay Owens came across and restored several pairs of gold-filled 1940s spectacles while studying languages at Lewis and Clark College. He found the gold-filled cable temples held the lightweight frame in position while pitching for his college baseball team. Soon, friends and family were asking him to find and restore pairs of these ‘cool old' frames for them... Today, RetroSpecs' staff of 46 craftsmen, highly skilled in the lost arts of frame shaping, precision lens drill mounting and frame polishing, produce and distribute Cuthbert & Chen and restore over 30,000 early and late modern 20th century eyeglass frames each year... In order to provide ongoing service to clients from Madison Avenue to Tokyo, RetroSpecs & Co. has developed a vast cataloguing system for historic 20th century frames.

Primary location: Los Angeles United States