Eye care

Before we show you a single frame

The eye test does not start at the display wall. It starts with what distance you work at, how many hours you drive, whether you drive after dark, whether you read on paper or on a screen, and what time of day the light bothers you.

Those answers decide the lens, which is the expensive half and the half that decides whether the spectacles get worn or end up in a drawer. The frame comes afterwards. It is the enjoyable part, but it is the second part.

Brands, style, and a lens built around the way you look

The frame is the part people see, and it is something we know well. We work with Etnia Barcelona, Woodys, Ray-Ban and Michael Kors, among a good many others. What is on display is not everything we hold: tell us what you are after and we will show you what is not on the wall.

For the lens we have Mimetika. It is a virtual reality test lasting a couple of minutes: you put on a VR headset and the equipment measures how you actually move your eyes and your head, and how much you use each distance — far, intermediate and near. Your varifocal is then calculated from that map instead of starting from a standard design. Two people with the same prescription do not look at the world the same way, and this takes account of that.

The work that is not off the shelf

Some fittings cannot be done in one visit with a stock lens: an irregular cornea, a child whose short sight climbs every year, eyes that see perfectly in the distance and give up ten minutes into a book.

They involve topography, trial lenses and several follow-up appointments. We do them here, and each has its own page so you can read what is actually involved before you book.

• A full eye examination, including intraocular pressure
• Prescription spectacles: varifocal, occupational and single vision
• Sunglasses, prescription or plano, and filters for driving
• Contact lenses: soft, toric and multifocal
• Specialty lenses: keratoconus, scleral and orthokeratology
• Vision therapy for focusing and convergence problems
• Myopia management for children
• Eye health checks and referral when a finding warrants it

Where our job ends

We are optometrists, not doctors. We measure, we examine, and we compare against what we wrote down last time. That comparison over the years usually says more than any single reading.

When something falls outside the expected range we do not interpret it or give it a name. We put it in a written report and tell you who to take it to. A sign that warrants ophthalmological assessment is referred the same day, not at the next check-up.