[ MATERIALS & MAKING ]
MEASURED IN MICRONS.
Five stages between raw material and a frame worth keeping. Nothing here is fast.
THE MAKING[ 01 / 05 ]
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ACETATE
( ITALIAN ACETATE )
Block-cut from Mazzucchelli sheet, then tumbled and hand-polished across five stages until it warms to the touch.
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02
LENSES
( MINERAL GLASS )
Ground, tinted and coated in-house. Every lens is checked for optical clarity against a reference grid.
0[ % UV FILTERED ]
03
HINGES
( 5-BARREL HINGE )
CNC-milled, then seated by hand. A five-barrel hinge opens ten thousand times without a whisper of play.
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04
CORE-WIRE
( TITANIUM )
A titanium core-wire is heat-set into each temple — memory, spring and weightlessness in one pass.
0[ GRAMS / TEMPLE ]
05
FINISHING
( 52 □ 20 — 145 )
Measured to the micron, engraved, and signed off by the maker before it ever meets a face.
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( SEE DIFFERENTLY )
KAODÉ — OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
ENGRAVED · TEMPLE INTERIOR · NOT ACTUAL SIZE
ORIGIN( HANDMADE / ITALIAN ACETATE / MINERAL GLASS )
ESTABLISHEDEST. 2026 · [ REF. KAO-2026 ]
DIMENSIONS[ 52 □ 20 — 145 ]
[ DISPATCH ]
New frames, first. No noise.
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[ HOUSE ]04
[ SERVICE ]04
[ SOCIAL ]03
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