We can sell cheaper prescription glasses 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.

• We are one of the foremost internet suppliers of cheaper glasses to the general public in the UK .
• Although the term cheap eyewear smacks of poor quality frames glazed poorly with poor quality lenses, it could not be further from the truth.
• See our testimonials updated at regular intervals

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• We also accept nhs vouchers and accor vouchers.

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Our low priced eyewear are made in the Heart of the West Midlands.

To buy prescription eyewear from us you must first register your prescription with us.

The only information we gather from you is your email address, a unique password and your prescription details, these details are held securely on our server and will not be lent sold or passed on to any third parties for any reason, once these details are gathered you can buy as many pairs of spectacles as you wish without re entering your prescription, this should lead to less input errors an a quicker service.

• We are one of the foremost internet suppliers of affordable eyewear to the general public in the United Kingdom. Although the term cheap eyewear smacks of poor quality frames glazed poorly with poor quality lenses, it could not be further from the truth. See our testimonials
• Our UK laboratory is who's trading name is kept secret to preserve supplies, has a reputation for the highest quality and excellent service.The chances are that you know someone who has had their eyewear made in our laboratory and they haven't purchased cheaply made eyewear but have purchased the very same frames as supplied on our website and paid much more for them.Whether you order from our range of designer label eyewear or from any of our other selections you will not be buying cheaply made poor eyewear but great eyewear at a very low price, without losing out on quality or service.
• Our designer frames are guaranteed 100% authentic and are sourced from UK suppliers, we don't sell poor copies just cheap eyewear.
• 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.

We sell genuine designer eyeglasses by Versace - Calvin Klein - Police - Cerruti - Janet Reger -Versus - Christian Dior - Ralph Lauren - Yves Saint Laurent - Dolce and Gabbana - DKNY and Donna Karan.

Our designer eyeglasses are 100% genuine and sourced for the best uk prices. We only supply the designer eyeglasses models listed on our uk website, as new models are sourced they will be added. The price you see is the price you will pay with standard stock Cr39 plastic lenses fitted to your own prescription. The high street price for these frames is much  more expensive. Why should you pay high street prices ? when you can buy the same product from our UK stock at a fraction of the price. Many people want designer eyeglasses but have in the past found them to be well outside their budget . With Budgetspex anyone can afford a best pair of designer eyeglasses for those prestigious occasions.

It is doubtful that you could buy cheaper or buy a better finished pair of eyeglasses.

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The History Of Glasses

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 spectacles. 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 spectacles, 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 spectacles 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, spectacles 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.

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