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Giuseppe Ratti was a photographer with an optician's shop in Turin when he started making glasses for pilots and drivers in 1917, in a courtyard on Via Caboto. The name means for the sun. The Meflecto stem, the flexible arm that stops the frame squeezing your head, was his in the thirties, and the 649 was made for Turin's tram drivers to keep the dust out, before Mastroianni put it in a film in 1961. We have five pairs, the 649 among them, mostly Havana acetate with green lenses, all handmade in Italy.

Persol 0PO0649 24/31 54 Sunglasses Crystal Havana / Green

Havana

$323.00

Persol 0PO3292S 24/31 52 Sunglasses

Havana / Green

$350.00

Persol 0PO0714 24/31 54 Sunglasses

Havana / Green

$403.00

Persol PO3369S 24/B1 Sunglasses Havana

HAVANA

$350.00

Persol PO3401S 95/31 Sunglasses Black

BLACK

$561.00

Persol Steve McQueen PO0714SM 24/P1 54 Sunglasses

Havana / Polar Green

$461.00

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