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.

This distinguished sunglass is an amplified take on the bestselling 9690 optical, reworked with larger lenses. It is handcrafted with chunky temples and stable 7-bar hinges. Architectural chamfering and Modernist core wire nod to the inspirations behind the design: Palm Springs in the 1950s.