Founded in 1969, British luxury eyewear brand Cutler and Gross combines the finest Italian craftsmanship with irrefutably cool style. Since its establishment in fashion’s halcyon days, the brand’s signature creativity has been applied to sunglasses and optical frames with their trademark numbered designs and absence of an ostentatious logo.

For decades, Graham Cutler and Tony Gross’s frames relied, in part, upon their reputation being dripped and whispered within style and fashion circles like verbal quicksilver. Considered bastions of iconic eyewear, Cutler and Gross designs continue to grace many of the most recognisable faces in the worlds of art, design, music and film.

The subtle nature of titanium is apparent in the Draycott 1426 sunglass, resisting excess and favouring purity. The rounded silhouette comes handcrafted in Sabae, Japan by master artisans who translate the signature Oyster pin into each precise line and cut—from the linear brow bar to the newly developed inner hinges that take design cues from the Cutler and Gross archive.