Free delivery over GH₵ 400 · Adjustments free for as long as you own them
New season
Frames worth
looking at twice.
Cut in Accra, glazed to your prescription, fitted by someone who will still adjust them in three years.
Keta
GH₵ 620
We started because every frame in Accra was either imported, expensive, or the wrong shape for the people buying it. So we cut our own.
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Three rooms
Start with what you came for
Glasses
Ten optical frames, cut in Accra, glazed to your prescription in five working days.
Sunglasses
Four sunglasses, all polarised, all made for the light we actually get here.
Cases and kits
The case, the cloth, and the three-frame bundle we put together with you.
Ordered most
The ones we cannot cut fast enough
How a frame is made
Four weeks, and about eleven pairs of hands
The sheet arrives
Bio-acetate, milled in Italy from cotton rather than crude, in sheets about six millimetres thick. We buy the colour a year ahead because that is how long it takes to make.
The front is cut
A five-axis mill takes the front out of the sheet in one pass. Everything after that is done by hand, which is the part that costs money and the part you can feel.
Ten days in the drum
The fronts go into a tumbler with beech chips and pumice for a week and a half. It is the only way to get an edge that is polished rather than merely smooth.
Then your prescription
Lenses are cut and edged at Spintex, checked against the script twice, and fitted by the person who is going to hand them to you.
Years cutting frames in Accra
Shops, from Osu to Takoradi
Frames cut last year
For an eye test, start to finish
What people say
The three things we get told most
I had worn the same frame for nine years because trying on new ones in a shop always felt like an exam. They just let me sit with four of them for an hour.
Esi Ampofo
Bought in Osu
My progressive lenses were wrong twice at another shop. Iris remade them once, free, and then spent twenty minutes explaining what had actually gone wrong the first time.
Kojo Asante
Bought in East Legon
I sat on the Keta in a taxi. Took them back expecting a bill and they straightened them at the counter while I stood there. Still wearing them.
Yaa Owusu
Bought in Kumasi
Reduced, and not because anything is wrong with them
Three colourways we are not cutting again. Same frames, same lenses, same thirty days to change your mind.
The journal
Frames, lenses, and the odd strong opinion
What bio-acetate actually is, and why we pay more for it
It comes off a cotton plant rather than out of a barrel, it takes colour differently, and it costs us about a third more per sheet. Here is what that buys you.
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Your frames are probably sitting too low
Nine out of ten people who walk into Osu are wearing a frame that has slipped a centimetre down the nose. It is a ten-minute fix and we do not charge for it.
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Harmattan and your lenses: a short, unglamorous guide
Dry dust is the worst thing that happens to a coated lens all year. Do not use your shirt. We are serious about this.
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Come and try them on
Nine shops, and somebody in each who can fit you
18 Oxford Street
Osu, Accra
Mon to Sat, 9:30 to 20:00
Sunday, 12:00 to 18:00
7 Boundary Road
Labone, Accra
Mon to Sat, 10:00 to 19:00
Closed Sunday
12 Lagos Avenue
East Legon, Accra
Mon to Sat, 10:00 to 20:00
Sunday, 13:00 to 18:00
Eye tests
Twenty-five minutes, GH₵ 120, and it comes off the frame
Every shop has an optometrist and a full test room. Book one at whichever is nearest and the fee comes straight off anything you buy that day.
Once a month, at most
New shapes, new colours, and when the sale actually starts
