26/M/Electrical Engineer

I just saw your comment so your not exactly correct Persol is like Louis Vuitton in that the products are high end and the company is owned by a parent company in (LV's Case $LVMH). They have a pretty hands off approach as does Luxotica but provide resourses in the financing area you can read into the 10k if you interested it's pretty interesting.

So your quality concept I think is a little off as your thinking selling out equals a drop in quality.

The pair I bough Persol Terra E Oceano are a perfect example of that theory tested.

  1. The limited Run of the Terra E Oceano means that they would not spend the time as an Engineer myself I could say I wouldn't spend the time to configure an entire factory to print a few hundred pairs of glasses. Remember to many glasses you saturate the market.

  2. If you look at the side of the glasses there is a Handmade in Italy L CE. What is interesting about this is that the Made in Italy standards are known to be super rigorous and Handmade in Italy is about as strict as you can get that means all parts must be made and assembled in Italy.

  3. The process of molding Cellulose Acetate the "plastic" used in persol glasses is not something you could simply injection mold. Layers actually need to be cut and molded together by hand crappy looking pair of glasses with a huge price tag they would also look generic.

  4. Most of the glasses that luxotica owns use polcarbonate lenses which are cheap and scratch fairly easily depending on the chem makeup you can use CR-39 and make them scratch resistant but Crystal "Glass" Lenses are truely the answer the only problem is they cannot block UV Rays Persol happens to be one of a few companies that has the patent for UV Glass Lenses.

I don't think you judge a book just on face value it's worth some research.

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