Handcrafted in Sabae, Japan120 Pairs Of Japanese HandsIndependent HouseRuns That EndPure Titanium & Japanese AcetateFree Worldwide ShippingHandcrafted in Sabae, Japan120 Pairs Of Japanese HandsIndependent HouseRuns That EndPure Titanium & Japanese AcetateFree Worldwide Shipping
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The Collection

Twelve silhouettes
The Tom

The Tom

Tom Havana Green From $275 USD
16 of 16 available
The Five-O

The Five-O

Five-O Havana Green From $320 USD
8 of 8 available
The 008

The 008

008 Havana Green From $275 USD
12 of 12 available
NewThe Zid

The Zid

Zid Brown Green From $280 USD
13 of 13 available
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The Millimetre

Where the price lives
The Hands
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The Hands

Roughly one hundred and twenty pairs of Japanese hands touch a single frame before it is finished. From the first cut to the final polish, a frame takes close to a year to come off the bench.

The Acetate
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The Acetate

Japanese cellulose acetate, cured in sheet for months before it is ever cut. The depth in a Havana or a Marble is not printed on — it runs all the way through.

The Curve
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The Curve

Every silhouette is drawn, cut, worn, and drawn again. A frame leaves the bench only when the line reads correctly from three-quarter view — the angle nobody photographs and everybody sees.

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Kaizen

Improvement with no finish line.

Every frame we make, we make in Sabae, Fukui. No second factory, no second story. What shapes everything else is a word we borrowed from the same valley: kaizen — improvement with no end point.

We build in batches of three hundred, then we change what the last run taught us, and the next three hundred are cut with those answers already in them. Which is why no two batches are identical, and why every run is a limited run.

Read how we work

Made inSabae, Fukui, Japan
Hands per frameAbout 120 pairs
Time to makeAbout a year
EditionsNo two batches alike
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New colorways go out here first

We work in small runs. When a new colorway, a collaboration or an archive re-issue comes off the bench, the list sees it before the shop page does.

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