7 Glasses Old Money Wears (And Why It's Never Ray-Ban)

7 Glasses Old Money Wears (And Why It's Never Ray-Ban) Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol and Oliver Peoples are the same company. So are many of the shops that sell them, and in America, the insurance that pays for them. Which means the man who buys Persol to escape Ray-Ban hasn't escaped anything. This countdown ranks seven eyewear houses by one measurable thing: how completely each one gets out of that machine. Two of the seven don't get out at all — including one owned outright by a French luxury conglomerate, and one whose debut model was a Ray-Ban homage at four times the price. The five that do get out include the London works that armed the RAF with aviator sunglasses years before Ray-Ban existed as a brand, the Prussian optician who made goggles for Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, and the house whose archive now sits in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Number one works a material that no amount of money can buy, because international trade in it ended in 1977. When one of its frames breaks, the repair leaves no seam at all. Every figure in this video is sourced. #OldMoney #OldMoneyStyle #QuietLuxury #MensStyle #LuxuryEyewear #Eyewear #RayBan #BespokeGlasses #MensFashion #MaisonBonnet #SavileRow #classicstyle 1. EssilorLuxottica — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EssilorLuxottica 2. EssilorLuxottica — Eyewear Brands (official) https://www.essilorluxottica.com/en/brands/eyewear/ 3. Silicon Canals — EssilorLuxottica vertical integration https://silic