The right pair changes how you see and how you're seen. The wrong pair just corrects your eyesight. They're on your face in every meeting, every photograph, every first impression.
Most of the industry treats glasses as a prescription with a frame attached. We think that's backwards. Get the seeing right — properly, clinically, first time — and the frame becomes the most powerful thing on your face.
ONE PERSON. TWO SELVES. A CHANGE EVERYONE CAN SEE.
Jekyll & Hyde is a story about one person with two selves, and a change everyone could see. We kept the transformation and lost the horror. Nobody becomes someone else in our studio. The person who walks out was in there all along — the frame just made them visible.
Dr. J — The daylight self. Clear lenses, composed, the one they expect.
HYDE — The other self. Tinted, unmistakable, the one they don't.
Signature — Neither mask. Hand-painted in Italy, made once, the one you sign.
Both halves are you. We dress both.
DRAWN FROM THE EYE CHART.
The letters in our name are drawn from the eye test chart — the first thing an optometrist ever shows you. It's deliberate.
We start from how you see. Then we put it on your face, where it's seen.
YOU ARRIVE WEARING GLASSES. YOU LEAVE WEARING A DECISION.
J.HYDE was founded by Vik, an optometrist who trained first as a dispensing optician and has sat on both sides of the chair.
Every frame is designed in Birmingham, fitted in Birmingham, and made for the person in it.
THE VISION IS WHAT YOU SEE.
THE FRAME IS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES.
Transformation is a promise. Framing Success™ is how we keep it: eye test, Zeiss lens, frame, precision measurement. Four steps, one standard.
EYE TEST
A precise prescription is the foundation everything else is built on. Plus a full eye health check with retinal imaging. Thirty minutes booked, or as long as it takes to get right.
ZEISS LENS
Zeiss only, never generic. Single vision and varifocals, with wider fields of clear vision and less distortion. DuraVision Platinum and 1.6 index included as standard.
FRAME
Our own designs, made to our specification — the weight, the hinge, the finish. Advice from style experts on what suits your face, your prescription and how you dress.
MEASUREMENT
A lens only performs where it sits. We measure digitally, with your chosen frame on your face, so the optical centre lands exactly where your eye actually is.
BUILT TO A DIFFERENT STANDARD.
We design our own frames.
When you control the design, you control everything.
The finest materials. Mazzucchelli acetate. Stainless steel components.
The tension of the hinge.
The finish on the temple tip.
Every sample comes back to us before anything is approved.
Eyewear made to last. Made to be worn every day, for years.
PREMIUM. NEVER VAGUE.
Eye test — £40 standalone. Included with any lens purchase.
Frames — from £150.
Zeiss single vision — from £80.
Zeiss varifocals — from £250.
Reglazing, Zeiss single vision — from £155.
Reglazing, Zeiss varifocals — from £325.
Signature — from £495.
We include the eye test because the lens is only as accurate as the test behind it. Coating, thinner lenses and digital measurement included as standard.
CONCEIVED IN BIRMINGHAM. WORN EVERYWHERE.
Birmingham doesn't need London's permission to have beautiful things.
Cannon Street, Birmingham & Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield. Tuesday to Saturday.
Framing Success™ is how we make sure. Four steps, right first time.