Essilor Florence: Technologically Advanced Progressive Lenses

Bottega di Sguardi, with its two locations, one at Via Marconi 19F and the other at Via del Parione 54R, is a specialized Essilor center in Florence. At our two optical centers in the city, you will find the most technologically advanced progressive lenses in the industry and a team of opticians and optometrists able to measure vision and recommend the most suitable progressive lens for each wearer, based on their lifestyle, dynamism, and visual habits.

Today, thanks to significant technological advancements in the world of optics, progressive lenses are increasingly high-performing and technologically advanced, both geometrically and in terms of material and treatments. This allows for sharp and fluid vision at all distances without the need to move the head to focus at different distances. We await you at our centers for a personalized consultation, happy to offer you only the excellence of progressive lenses.

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It was in 1959 that Bernard Maitenaz designed the first Varilux lens, the world's first progressive lens, thus revolutionizing the entire optical industry.

But it was with the second generation of progressive lenses that Essilor established itself in the European market as a benchmark for presbyopia correction.

In over 60 years of research, Varilux boasts more than 70 patents for progressive lens technology, thanks to the constant research work of a team of more than 500 researchers worldwide.

“Every eye is unique and special, and deserves all the attention in the world.”
Since each eye is unique, each lens must be equally so, and that is why Essilor offers a wide range of lenses based both on the individual wearer's needs and on their visual habits, posture, and lifestyle.

The principles guiding Essilor are:

• Correcting vision by offering increasingly advanced technologies ready to support
  the needs of each wearer;
• Protecting eyes to ensure wearers experience visual well-being in every activity;
• Ensuring excellent vision clarity through latest-generation treatments aimed at protecting lenses from scratches, impurities, and reflections.

In our two boutiques in Florence there is a team of expert opticians and optometrists ready
to welcome you for a personalized consultation, aimed at offering you the most suitable lens for your specific needs.

Essilor photochromic Transition lenses are the ideal solution for all those who lead a dynamic life and love to take care of their eyes by protecting them as best as possible.

When we talk about Essilor Transition lenses, we are talking about smart lenses that can simultaneously offer visual comfort and protection, as they are capable of modulating the amount of light that the eyes receive.

These lenses dynamically adapt to different light situations, appearing completely clear indoors and dark outdoors, thus ensuring constant eye protection.

Essilor Transition Signatur Gen8 lenses are the new generation of this type of lens, even more performing and reactive, they darken up to 30% faster and return clear up to 3 minutes more quickly.

This increase in performance is possible thanks to billions of photochromic molecules that allow for dynamically recalibrating the darkening of the lens based on the intensity of light.

It is true that light is fundamental for the well-being of the visual system and the organic system more generally, however, there is a harmful part of the visible spectrum for our eyes, which is blocked precisely by Essilor photochromic Transition Gen8 lenses, as these completely block UVA and UVB rays and filter harmful Blue Light, both emitted by the sun and by electronic devices (just like Blue Control lenses do).

Once these lenses were not liked due to the color residue that remained on the lenses even indoors, today they are completely clear indoors and not only that, in addition to the iconic gray, graphite green, and brown colors, they also offer Style Colors such as sapphire, amethyst, emerald green, and amber so that it is really possible to ensure the right protection without necessarily having to give up style.

For all those who suffer from simple ametropias such as myopia, hyperopia, or astigmatism, Essilor single vision lenses are the ideal solution.

Whatever the extent of the ametropia, we at Bottega di Sguardi in Florence are able to offer various visual solutions that are the best possible solution for each specific case, allowing perfect focusing at every distance.

In this regard, it is worth mentioning the new generation of Eyezen single vision lenses, the result of years of study regarding new behaviors and visual habits due to the use of electronic devices.

For the first time, a new calculation methodology previously used only for Varlux X Series lenses is applied to Essilor single vision lenses.

This involves optimizing the entire surface considering near to far vision zones, so that it is possible to maintain maximum visual acuity across the entire surface, i.e., in all directions of gaze, without visual effort and consequent fatigue.

The anti-reflective technology aimed at reducing the exposure of our visual system to harmful Blue-Violet light is called Crizal Prevencia.

This specific treatment is the result of years of research and collaboration with the Institut De La Vision in Paris and has made it possible to obtain the world's first clear lenses capable of filtering harmful Blue-Violet light and reducing its damaging effects.

It is important to know that Blue-Violet light, which is found in sunlight, indoor lights, and electronic devices, is not all harmful; it is harmful in the wavelength range from 380nm to 455nm with a peak between 415-455 nm. Then there is a beneficial part of it, called Turquoise Light, which ranges from 465-495 nm and, unlike the previous portion of Blue Light, this is necessary and beneficial for our body, for the sleep-wake cycle, for our mood, and for our cognitive functions.

The Crizal Prevencia treatment protects our eyes in every circumstance, allowing the beneficial Blue Turquoise light to pass through, but filtering the harmful Blue light which, according to recent long-term studies, can lead to retinal aging and the onset of important eye pathologies such as AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).

Varilux progressive lenses, created in 1959, were the world's first progressive lenses.

They arose from the need to be able to see with a single pair of glasses at all distances, far, intermediate, and near, overcoming the concept of bifocals which corrected far and near without considering all intermediate vision distances.

From 1959 onwards, Varilux progressive lenses have undergone constant and growing technological innovation, thus becoming increasingly high-performing and offering different designs according to the wearers' needs.

Usually, those who wear progressive lenses find themselves having to acquire mechanical postural behaviors in order to find the useful zones of the lens that allow them clear vision at the chosen distance at the moment.

With Varilux, all of this no longer exists, because these are progressive lenses with freeform geometry with internal progression and an exclusive patent that breaks down the power into percentages and allows a progression that leads to an addition spread over a wider and more comfortable area.

Varilux lenses with their latest generation technology are top of the range and, thanks to the nanoptic cell geometry, that sensation of swaying when moving the eyes is no longer felt.

This allows for short and easy adaptation, given the possibility of maintaining one's natural posture when focusing at multiple distances simultaneously, without the need to move the head. Finally, dynamic vision even up close.

Varilux 4D progressive lenses achieve the highest level of visual performance because they have the highest possible level of personalization, starting from physiological parameters to behavioral ones, and the chosen frame.
In this type of progressive lens, the progression length is customizable and the inset is also personalized.

These features allow for fluid vision even in motion, extra wide fields of vision, high image quality in every direction of gaze, postural comfort, and immediate adaptability.

Our Bottega di Sguardi Boutiques are a specialized Varilux center in Florence.

In both locations, which we remind you are located at Via Marconi 19F and Via del Parione 54R, you will be welcomed by our team of expert opticians and optometrists who can recommend the best Varilux lens and the most suitable design for your daily needs.

An initial anamnesis, a vision check, and already in the measurement room we will be able to advise you on the Varilux lens that is right for you.

The prices of Essilor lenses vary based on many factors such as the type of lens, whether it is single vision, dynamic, or progressive, and among progressive lenses there is a difference depending on the chosen geometry.

The chosen treatments also indicate a difference, starting from the hard coating, anti-reflective coating, Blue protect, or Transition photochromic technology.

Our team of expert professionals awaits you at the Bottega di Sguardi Boutiques in Florence, at Via del Parione 54r and Via Marconi 19f, for the best possible consultation with the ultimate goal of offering you the best solution at the best price.

When we talk about Essilor and Zeiss, we are talking about two leaders in the ophthalmic world.

In both cases, we are therefore in safe hands when it comes to the latest frontiers of the geometric technology of progressive lenses.

Both Essilor and Zeiss offer latest-generation progressive lenses with unique and technologically advanced patents, the result of their constant research.

In our stores in Florence, we will be able to suggest an Essilor or Zeiss progressive lens based on your daily needs, offering you excellence in both technology and quality in every case.

In our Bottega di Sguardi Boutiques in Florence, you will always find many proposals so that you can find the best visual comfort in your new lenses.

Our task is to offer different solutions to different problems, which is why we collaborate with the best ophthalmic lens manufacturers in the world.

Among these, in addition to Essilor and Zeiss, we also offer Hoya, famous for its iD Freeform Design technology and for the patent of the Binocular Eye Model which allow the wearer tailor-made vision at all distances.

Bottega di Sguardi is a specialized Essilor center in Florence where you can find expert optometrists, who perfectly know the Essilor product and technology catalog and will be able to advise you best for the purchase of your Essilor lenses.

Come and visit us in Via del Parione 54r and in Via Marconi 19f, we are happy to welcome you with our experience and professionalism, in order to complete your eyewear in a sublime way.

Refined frames, entirely handmade, the result of constant research among niche eyewear brands worldwide, will be accompanied by the technology, quality, and transparency of the best Essilor lenses.