On the bench: Royal Blue, the Octagon and the Round, the Bomber and the house’s first luggage. See what is coming
The Aviator, Yellow, with prescription lenses in a rose to amber gradient
What only the house does
Your prescription. In any colour.
Every PAUL SAGOO® frame is an optical frame, glazed to your prescription in the atelier. Then the part nobody else offers: your lenses in any colour, with the coating you want on top. Clear is standard; everything else is your call.
Single visiondistance or reading+£29
Bifocaldistance and reading in one+£69
Varifocaldigitally surfaced+£129
Planono correctionIncluded
PrescriptionSingle vision, bifocal, varifocal. Premium 1.6 index included; thinner 1.67 (+£39) and 1.74 (+£79) for strong prescriptions.
ColourAny tint in the atelier, solid or graduated, or Transitions® GEN S™ in eight colours that come and go with the light.
CoatingMirror and flash mirror in silver, gold, blue, red and pink. Polarised in four. Anti-reflective and water repellent on every lens.
Premium 1.6 index lenses. Type in your prescription when you commission, it takes two minutes, or send it later by email. Every figure is checked before a lens is cut.
Nothing is taken from a shelf. Your frame is assembled, tinted, glazed and marked after you commission it.
Open now: frames in every colourway, plano, tinted or to your prescription, made to order.
Commission today and your number is held for fourteen days while you decide. Eight to twelve weeks from commission to your door.
i.
The acetate
Solid acetate, cut thick, then milled and hand-polished in Bangkok. Gold hinges seated by hand.
By hand
ii.
The lens
Glazed to your prescription: single vision, bifocal or varifocal, premium 1.6 index. Clear as standard, plano if you need no correction. How prescriptions work →
To your eyes
iii.
The tint
If you want one. Dipped to your shade, solid, graduated, polarised or mirrored, and checked against a master swatch.
If you wish
iv.
The signature
Your number — of thirty-five, never more — laser-written in gold inside the temple with the model and provenance. Where only you will find it.
Yours alone
Size
20 × 12.7 × 6.2 cm
Body
A rigid wooden carcass, wrapped by hand in vegan leather
Coffret: the French for the little chest a jeweller trusts with what matters. A true miniature trunk, its rigid wooden carcass wrapped by hand in vegan leather printed with the radial in complete spectrum, ring by ring, so no two panels ever sit quite the same. It closes with a single PS clasp in solid polished brass, the monogram itself machined by hand, under brass studs and mitred brass corners. Inside, a soft lining the colour of the house; underneath, your edition number in gold. No animal leather anywhere in it; ask the house and we will tell you exactly what each part is made of.
It carries three ways: on the wide embossed shoulder strap, on the slim crossbody, or bare in the hand as a minaudière. A pair of frames rides inside, though nobody will blame you for carrying nothing in it at all.
20 × 12.7 × 6.2 cmA wooden heart, a brass hand, a coat of colourAzur · Blanc · Noir · Python
Blanc · first edition, numbered
£1,450 · every colourway · made to order, nothing to pay today
Azur · Blanc · Noir · Python — each an edition of thirty-five. Touch one to open it.
How it is made
Every piece, one bench.
The stitch
Real footage from the bench. Every seam is run one panel at a time, the operator turning the piece by hand through the corners — the only way the radial lands true where two panels meet.
The cloth
Real footage from the cutting floor. Every panel is struck from the full width in one pass, so the grain runs the same way on each face of the piece.
The clasp
The PS clasp starts as solid brass stock, held in the vice, filed and polished by hand until the monogram reads clean. Released, the whole mechanism shows: the plate, the swing bar, the two side catches and the lock beneath.
The brass
Mitred brass caps at every corner, brass studs along the band. The hardware takes the wear, so the vegan leather does not.
The back
Turn it round and the radial keeps going: printed ring by ring and set from the centre of each panel, so it lands true where two panels meet. Finished on every side, including the one nobody photographs.
The lining
Inside, the monogram repeats across the full lining. Nothing is left plain, including the parts only the owner ever sees.
Chapter V — The Craft
Gold, where it matters.
Solid acetate, cut deliberately thick — you feel the difference the moment you pick a pair up. Milled and hand-finished in Bangkok. Gold hinges, the PS signature in gold on every front, and your number laser-written inside the temple — where only you will find it.
The pattern, engraved · PS001/B
The mark
Every frame is checked against its drawing by hand before it earns a number. If it drifts a tenth of a millimetre from the plan, it never leaves the bench. The gold PS mark is the last thing to go on.
Cut, not moulded
Milled from solid acetate — never injected, never rushed — then tumbled and hand-polished for days until the surface holds light like glass. The PS pattern is cut into the temple, repeating the full length of it.
Free to join
The Radial.
The circle of the house. Anyone can join the outer ring, free. Every piece you own draws you closer to the centre: The Numbered, The Collector, The Centre.
I · Free
The Radial
Join with your email. Letters from the house, first sight of new editions and the luggage, invitations to house events.
II · Your first piece
The Numbered
Your number in the register, owner care for life, seven days to claim your number in every new edition, the owners’ colour and pieces Paul curates, offered to you first.
III · Three pieces or £2,000 in 24 months
The Collector
Your seven days start 48 hours early, a new lens tint every year on the house, and a guest at every event.
IV · Six pieces or £5,000 in 24 months
The Centre
A colour mixed and named for you, reserved places at every event, and one introduction a year.
OBEAppointed in the 2022 Birthday Honours, for services to the Asian community, to diversity and inclusion, and for his philanthropic work.
Edition of 35P is the sixteenth letter, S the nineteenth: thirty-five. The PS mark itself is drawn in thirty-five lines and turns. So, thirty-five of each colour, numbered, recorded to the owner and never repeated. Your number is on the piece itself, inside the temple of a frame or in gold beneath a Coffret, and on a certificate Paul signs by hand that travels with it. See the certificate
PAUL SAGOO®Registered UK trade mark UK00004009291. Every piece numbered, recorded and verifiable.
