Made to Measure
The made to measure case, box, cloth and lens cleaner.
How it works
- Scan. Our patent-pending system captures your face to sub-millimetre precision, creating a permanent last to optimise optical performance and comfort.
- Select. Choose your silhouette from over 250 Cubitts shapes and more than 300 colours. Add options such as custom engraving and alternative nose pads.
- Fit. We re-engineer the dimensions to your proportions, ensuring a perfect fit at bridge, temple, and ear. Our frame-fit guarantee covers adjustments or a remake until you are completely satisfied.
- Make. Your frame is handmade to order through around 30 stages of production. We share workshop updates as your frame comes to life.
- Glaze. Lenses are made to your prescription using ZEISS ClearView with DuraVision coatings.
- Finish. Delivered in a custom aluminium case with an oversized microfibre cloth and refillable lens cleaner.
What is included
- Any Cubitts acetate frame, made to your exact sizing
- 300+ acetate colours; gloss or matte finish
- Choice of nose pads
- Precision ZEISS ClearView lenses with DuraVision coatings
- Custom engraving
- Frame-fit guarantee (adjust or remake until perfect)
- Cubitts Made to Measure aluminium case, oversized cloth, and refillable lens cleaner
- Handmade in our King’s Cross workshop; ready in 40 days
- £350 all-inclusive
- Supplements apply for genuine water buffalo horn, higher index lenses, or varifocals.
Bridges
Medium
High
Narrow
Low
- Scan
- Select shape
- Fit
- Choose colour and finish
- Customise
- Prescription and lens
- Pick acetate
- Acetate cutting into front slabs and sides
- Side shooting
- Heating fronts
- Adding bridge bump to fronts
- Friction welding on nosepads
- CNC front
- CNC temples
- Sanding - front and side
- Adding lens groove / v cutting
- Temple tip detailing
- Recessing for hinges
- Pinning hinges - front and temples
- Mitre - front and temples
- Recessing temple bed, applying decal,sealing and polishing
- Filing temple shape
- Contouring
- Welding pins
- Counterboring
- Aligning rivet and pinning
- Heating and base curve
- Shaping and contouring
- Laser engraving and fill
- Bending temple tip
- Capping hardware
- Acetone
- Barreling - stage 1
- Barrelling - stage 2
- Barrelling - stage 3
- Barreling - stage 4
- Adding screws and assembly
- Hand polishing
- Hand glossing
- Ultrasonic cleaning
- Matting if required
- Four point set up
- Frame QC
- Selecting lens
- Glazing
- Fitting lenses
- Lens QC
- Final adjustments and set up
- Packing and shipping
- Final fitting
Temple Tips
Explore the Bespoke Gallery
A curated archive of one-of-a-kind commissions, our Bespoke Frame Gallery showcases what becomes possible when craft meets imagination. Each frame begins as a conversation, your proportions, your preferences, your story. Translated into form through meticulous design and hand-finished detail.
Find a store and book a consultation
Find your closest store and book a one hour consultation. Our store teams will take a Sub-millimetre scan to start your made to measure process. The team will guide you through the process of choosing a frame, ensuring a perfect bridge fit and picking one of our 300 colours.
Explore over 300 colours
Explore the largest bespoke colour collection in the world. Over 100 Mazzuchelli and 200 Takiron colours are available for any frame.
Book a frame making class
Join the Cubitts workshop team to learn the crafted stages of spectacle production, and make your own frame. A tour of the workshop process, from CNC milling to finishing touches over four hours. After each class, the workshop team will complete the finishing touches so your final frame can be sent out to you