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Half-rim

Half-Rim Optical Frame

★★★★★ 4.6 · 142 reviews
€95,00

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A metal upper rim and a nylon cord holding the lens from below, the lightest full-size frame here.

  • 51 mm
  • 14 g
  • Plain demo lens
Plain demo lens

A clear plano lens with no prescription in it. Take the frame to an optician for your own lenses. Lens guide

Colour:
Frame size:

Choose a frame size before adding it.

Quantity
In stock · dispatched from Helsinki within two working days
  • Free shipping from €70,00
  • 30 days to return it unworn, with its case
  • Hinges and coatings guaranteed for 2 years

Half-rim means the lens is held by a rim along the top and a thin nylon cord running in a groove around the bottom edge. You see less frame and the whole thing weighs 14 g. The upper rim is titanium in the gunmetal version and a titanium core with an acetate sleeve in the mahogany.

Two honest limits. The cord stretches a little over two or three years and the lens can start to pop out; any optician replaces the cord in five minutes and we cover it under the hinge-and-coating guarantee. And a half-rim needs a lens at least 1.8 mm thick at the edge to take the groove, so very thin high-index lenses are not always possible - ask your optician before you pay for them.

Lens width51 mm (size M)
Bridge19 mm
Temple length140 mm
Frame materialTitanium upper rim, nylon cord lower
Lens materialCR-39 demo lens, grooved edge
Filter or powerPlain demo lens
Weight14 g
Hinge typeBarrel hinge, no spring
Nose padsAdjustable silicone pads
Case includedHard case and cloth

Lens width is given for size M. S is 3 mm narrower, L is 3 mm wider; the bridge and temple do not change.

  • Titanium upper rim, 0.7 mm nylon cord below
  • Grooved demo lenses so your optician can copy the shape
  • Adjustable silicone nose pads
  • Ships with plain demo lenses - no prescription supplied
  • Needs a lens at least 1.8 mm thick at the edge

Materials. Titanium and nylon cord frame, CR-39 demo lenses

Care. Rinse, wash, dry with the cloth. Do not pull the lens out yourself to clean behind the cord.

Worn first. Six of us wore this frame daily for a month before it was listed. The weight and the hinge type above are what we measured, not what the supplier told us.

Orders from €70,00 ship free; below that it is €4,50. Two to three working days in Finland, three to six for most of the EU.

Anything unworn, in its case, can come back within 30 days. Hinges and lens coatings are covered for 2 years. The full policy.

Reviews

4.6 out of 5

From 142 people who bought the Half-Rim Optical Frame and were asked six weeks later.

★★★★★
★★★★★

Measured my old pair as the fit guide said, ordered the matching size, and it sat right without a visit to the optician for bending. The weight on the page was the weight on my kitchen scales.

Eeva L. · verified

★★★★★

Second frame. The first was glazed by my optician without any fuss - she liked that the demo lens was already the right shape.

Tomas H. · verified

★★★★★

Exactly as described, including the part about the coating smudging. It does. The cloth set sorted it, but I would have liked that in bigger letters.

Marit S. · verified

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