Tokyo: Made by hand and only of wood, the frames for prescription wooden glasses made by Japan's Yoshihisa Yabuuchi are a gem of craftsmanship and design that are available for some 1,200 euros ($1,540), but only after two years on the waiting list.
The meticulous Yabuuchi works in the family optician's store in the northern city of Fukushima, a business that goes back 137 years to when it began making the exclusive frames to order.
"I have 32 orders, but have only been able to deliver 18 up to now, which is why there is a two-year waiting list," the designer, who takes more than a month to make each frame while serving customers at his optician's shop, told EFE.
