Cheap Glasses from Budgetspex

Our Very Low Priced Glasses Are Made In The Heart Of The West Midlands.

Throughout the UK history of spectacle supply, it has been made clear by the professional side of the industry that the right to supply spectacles to the public was theirs alone.

Any spectacle manufacturer that was found to be selling direct was forced to reconsider, by economic means.

We in the manufacturing side of the trade have always abided by thier wishes, mainly for fear of losing our livelyhood.

That was until a young chap from the Bristol area who had no ties to the optical industry decided to challenge this unjust sytem.

He contacted some spectacle suppliers and tried to persuade them to supply him direct, and after many refusals managed to persuade a supplier to sell to him direct, thus was born GlassesDirect.com

The Concept

The concept was then looked at by others including Budgetspex.

We decided that now that the concept was being taken seriously by the High Street, that we could and would offer a similar facility, but with our many years of experience at making glasses to the highest standards, it was our considered opinion that we could offer a better service as we also have many years of standing in the spectacle supply chain and even have our own brands.

This should give our customers some confidence in our ability to supply better products than our competition often at better prices than our competitors.

Word Of Mouth

We don,t go overboard with advertising but are happier building a satisfied customer base by word of mouth.

We offer a no quibble guarantee on all products and services and are happy to talk with and advise on any spectacle related issue.

Cheaper

We can sell prescription spectacles cheaper than our competitors because we are part of a well established spectacle manufacturing business and have access to great discounts from leading lens manufacturers and optical importers, we simply pass back these savings to our customers.

It's as simple as that.

Internet Supply

We are one of the foremost internet suppliers of cheaper spectacles to the general public in the UK .

Although the term cheap glasses smacks of poor quality frames glazed poorly with poor quality lenses, it could not be further from the truth.

We sell prescription full rimmed glasses, semi rimless glasses, rimless glasses, titanium glasses, designer glasses and even cheaper odds and ends glasses.

We don't supply thick as a brick glasses made from the cheapest nastiest stock lenses, we only supply glasses made with optimised lens stock and specially surfaced lenses to reduce thicknesses.

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Our spectacle frames are selected for quality and value and are constantly reveiwed, we listen to our customers and act only in their best interest.

Here at Budgetspex our technical staff have many years of spectacle making experience. Our quality is unquestionable.In fact our products are sold in Opticians shops all over the Uk every day of the week.

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We are one of the foremost internet suppliers of affordable spectacles to the general public in the United Kingdom. Although the term cheap spectacles smacks of poor quality frames glazed poorly with poor quality lenses, it could not be further from the truth.

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Our UK laboratory is who's trading name is kept secret to preserve supplies, has a reputation for the highest quality and excellent service.

If you have ever purchased Rimless Glasses, Semi Rimless Glasses or very expensive high prescription lenses, the chances are that you have already had glasses made in our laboratory.

Our lab has provided the highest quality spectacle manufacturing to the trade for many years.

Whether you order from our range of designer label glasses or from any of our other selections you will not be buying an inferior product but great spectacles at a very low price, with great quality and service.

The only difference you will see is the price

Our designer frames are guaranteed 100% authentic and are sourced from UK suppliers, we don't sell poor copies just the genuine article at the right price.

Don't waste your hard earned cash on expensive high street stores, cut out the middle man, buy direct at huge discount.

If you think our frames are not worth every penny just return them for a full refund.

The History Of Spectacles

The first recorded use of a corrective lens was by the emperor Nero, who was known to watch the gladiatorial games using an emerald.

Sunglasses were first used in China in the 12th century or possibly earlier. The "lenses" of these glasses were flat panes of smoky quartz, which offered no corrective powers but did protect the eyes from glare.

Glasses first began to appear in common use in northern Italy late in the 13th century; most likely in the late 1280s. It is not clear when the technology was invented. It has been said that Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs of glasses in China as early as 1275. In 1676, Franciscus Redi, a professor of medicine at the University of Pisa, wrote that he possessed a 1289 manuscript whose author complains that he would be unable to read or write were it not for the recent invention of glasses, and a record of a sermon given in 1305, in which the speaker, a Dominican monk named Fra Giordano da Rivalto, remarked that glasses had been invented less than twenty years previously, and that he had met the inventor. Based on this evidence, Redi credited another Dominican monk, Fra Alessandro da Spina of Pisa, with the re-invention of glasses after their original inventor kept them a secret, a claim contained in da Spina's obituary record.

In 1738, a Florentine historian named Domenico Manni reported that a tombstone in Florence credited one Salvino d'Armato (died 1317) with the invention of glasses. Other stories, possibly legendary, credit Roger Bacon with the invention. Bacon's published writings describe the magnifying glass (which he did not invent), but make no mention of glasses. His treatise De iride ("On the Rainbow"), which was written while he was a student of Robert Grosseteste, no later than 1235, mentions using optics to "read the smallest letters at incredible distances".

These early spectacles had convex lenses that could correct the presbyopia (farsightedness) that commonly develops as a symptom of aging. Nicholas of Cusa is believed to have discovered the benefits of concave lens in the treatment of myopia (nearsightedness). However, it was not until 1604 that Johannes Kepler published in his treatise on optics and astronomy, the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lenses could correct presbyopia and myopia.

The American scientist Benjamin Franklin, who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals in 1784 to avoid having to regularly switch between two pairs of glasses. The first lenses for correcting astigmatism were constructed by the British astronomer George Airy in 1827.

Over time, the construction of spectacle frames also evolved. Early eyepieces were designed to be either held in place by hand or by exerting pressure on the nose (pince-nez). Girolamo Savonarola suggested that eyepieces could be held in place by a ribbon passed over the wearer's head, this in turn secured by the weight of a hat. The modern style of glasses, held by temples passing over the ears, was developed in 1727 by the British optician Edward Scarlett. These designs were not immediately successful, however, and various styles with attached handles such as scissors glasses and lorgnettes remained fashionable throughout the 18th and into the early 19th century.

In the early 20th century, Moritz von Rohr at Zeiss (with the assistance of H. Boegehold and A. Sonnefeld, developed the Zeiss Punktal® spherical point-focus lenses that dominated the eyeglass lens field for many years.

Despite the increasing popularity of contact lenses and laser corrective eye surgery, glasses remain very common and their technology has not stood still.

For instance, it is now possible to purchase frames made of special memory metal alloys that return to their correct shape after being bent.

Other frames have spring-loaded hinges.

Either of these designs offers dramatically better ability to withstand the stresses of daily wear and the occasional accident.

Modern frames are also often made from strong, light-weight materials such as titanium alloys, which were not available in earlier times.