AN EYE TEST THAT DOESN'T LAST JUST SIX MINUTES.
This eye test doesn't take six minutes.
Vik trained first as a dispensing optician — understanding exactly how a prescription becomes a lens on a face — before qualifying as an optometrist. He's worn glasses himself for forty years. That changes what gets asked, what gets checked, and what you leave with.
Your appointment begins with a question: how do you actually use your vision? The answer shapes everything that follows.
£40 standalone. Included with any prescription lens purchase.
What Every Examination Includes
THE PRESCRIPTION
A thorough assessment of your vision. Accurate, unhurried, and explained in plain terms. Built around how you actually use your eyes — not a standard chart.
THE EYE HEALTH CHECK
A full assessment of your eye health including glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetic eye disease. Early detection matters.
THE PLAN
From prescription to Zeiss lens to frame. We own every step of that journey.
You leave with clarity — not just a piece of paper.
EXCLUSIVELY ZEISS.
Every prescription lens at J.HYDE is Zeiss. Not as an upgrade — as standard. Combined with Visufit 1000 digital measurement at City Centre and Zeiss i.Terminal at Mere Green, your lenses are fitted with millimetre-level precision.
For varifocal wearers particularly, this is the difference between lenses you adapt to and lenses that work from day one.
Forty years of wearing lenses teaches you that precision here is everything.
STRUGGLING WITH YOUR CURRENT LENSES?
Varifocal adaptation problems are one of the most common issues we see at J.HYDE. Narrow corridors, distortion at the edges, headaches during adjustment — these are not inevitable. They are almost always the result of poor measurement or the wrong lens for your lifestyle.
We also specialise in complex prescriptions that other practices struggle with. High prescriptions, prism, keratoconus — if you've been told your prescription is difficult, book a consultation. Vik trained as a dispensing optician before qualifying as an optometrist. He's worn glasses for forty years. He has twenty years of experience getting prescriptions right that others have got wrong.
TRANSPARENT PRICING. NO SURPRISES.
Private eye test — £40
Included with any complete eyewear purchase.
Available at both our Birmingham City Centre studio on Cannon Street and our Mere Green studio in Sutton Coldfield. Appointments available Tuesday to Saturday.
VIK. FOUNDER & OPTOMETRIST.
Dispensing optician. Then optometrist. Twenty years of clinical practice. Founder of J.HYDE.
Every eye test at J.HYDE is conducted personally by Vik. Not a locum. Not a rotation. The same person, every time, with the expertise to get your prescription right and the understanding to translate it into eyewear that works for your life.
BOOK YOUR EYE TEST
BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE
Unit 6 Cannon Street, Caxton Gate, Birmingham, B2 5EP
0121 643 7066
Tuesday — Saturday
9-5
MERE GREEN
Sutton Coldfield, B75 5BS
0121 294 2114
Tuesday — Saturday
9-5