Cutler and Gross was founded in 1969 in London, a year in which so many beautiful things were created: from the birth of Scooby Doo, the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon, the Woodstock Festival, the 1st edition of The Godfather to the Abbey Road album of the Beatles. Two optician friends: Messrs. Graham Cutler and Tony Gross, one a businessman and the other a rockstar and party-animal to be. Tony Gross hung out in several nightclubs in London every weekend and built up a mega network of celebrities with thousands of rounds, who all fell in love with the handmade, fashionable and hippest glasses in London, long before the fashion houses entered the eyewear industry. Real pioneers, with a lot of guts to test new techniques.
In 1969 they bought their first shop together, where they manufactured their glasses by hand on the first floor in their own workshop. They did everything that had to be done themselves. Cutler and Gross glasses are (still) handmade in their own factory from the very best acetate.
The same passion still comes from the same factory where it all started and that is a rarity in this day and age.

Combine British luxury with the raw edge that comes with an exclusive, all-handmade pair of glasses.
Cutler and Gross gave each manufactured frame a unique number instead of a logo. The golden logo was also placed on the inside of each right leg. The logo was placed on the inside (and not on the outside) because Cutler and Gross did not want to make a sign of the frame, but rather to emphasize the understated class of the frame. The iconic frames of this eccentric brand are often worn by celebrities such as Bowie, Beatles, Rolling Stones Madonna, Gaga, Stevie Wonder, and for example in all Kingsman movies. Within the absurdly large collection of eyewear fetishist Elten John, the largest part consists of more than 200 C&G glasses and that is growing every month.

You have to touch the glasses, there is a rare high quality that is almost impossible to explain. Only the purest and most beautifully cured acetate from Italy is good enough for CUTLER & GROSS – With models from 50 years ago still in collection and with quarterly brand new models that are likely to be the vintage of 50 years from now.

“If you buy a handcrafted pair of glasses or sunglasses, you want to see the tiny inaccuracies, the straight, raw edges of the plastic, the pins – they give character, make them unique to the wearer. The Cutler and Gross customer has always been an individual. Eccentric maybe, but a rare breed, certainly.”
– Graham Cutler