★★★★★
“I have been looking for a round frame that didn’t make me look like a graduate student. The Aldo is exact — the 5.2mm rim makes all the difference.”
Marco D. · Milan · April 2026
The frame
A small round frame from a Cadore workshop that closed in the early 80s when its founder retired. We bought the patterns from his daughter, restored the tooling, and changed two things: a five-barrel hinge instead of three, and a slightly thicker rim profile (5.2mm rather than 4.8mm) to let the acetate carry modern optical lenses without flexing. The original 1968 catalogue called it the "studente" — the student frame.