The iconic
eyewear designer Oliver Goldsmith on the TVNZ Breakfast show when he visited
New Zealand to attend the launch of the Oliver Goldsmith vintage eyewear
collection at Mortimer Hirst:
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
NEW TECHNOLOGY CONTACT LENS NOW AT MORTIMER HIRST
As a pioneering contact lens practice since the 1940s, Mortimer Hirst continues to practise at the leading edge of contact lens care. We are regularly asked to participate in clinical and premarket contact lens trials for the world’s leading contact lens manufacturers.
We are pleased to advise that we are one of the few practices in Australasia who have been fitting and supplying the latest breakthrough in contact lenses.
Dailies Total 1 from ALCON is a unique daily disposable contact lens that has gained widespread acclaim and superior results in Europe over the past two years. It has in fact been so successful that the manufacturers had difficulty meeting demand. Despite our repeated requests to obtain this lens it was delayed until such time that supply could be guaranteed.
Dailies Total 1 has a unique ‘gradient water content’ where the lens ‘core’ consists of a high oxygen transmitting silicone-hydrogel material which then gradually transitions to a high water content (over 80% water) hydrogel surface. Like a surrounding envelope. This unique structure makes for a lens which has a very smooth, highly lubricated surface. The lens has been shown - in our experience and by colleagues overseas - to provide improved comfort and reduced dryness throughout the wearing day while providing excellent vision and deposit resistance.
Value for money, hassle free convenience, improved safety, compliance, reduced allergic reactions and deposits that single use lenses provide, are additional benefits.
If you are thinking about contact lenses or have symptoms of dryness , discomfort or variable vision with your regular disposable or other one day disposables, please make an appointment to see one of our contact lens specialists. As part of our usual thorough optometric examination, we will assess your suitability for Dailies Total 1 and fit and provide some trial lenses so you can judge for yourself.
At present Dailies Total 1 lenses are only available for myopic (short-sighted) eyes requiring ‘minus’ lenses but we expect hyperopic (farsighted) ‘plus’ lenses later in 2014 and potentially astigmatism correcting (toric) lenses and presbyopia correcting multifocals in 2015.
We are pleased to advise that we are one of the few practices in Australasia who have been fitting and supplying the latest breakthrough in contact lenses.
Dailies Total 1 from ALCON is a unique daily disposable contact lens that has gained widespread acclaim and superior results in Europe over the past two years. It has in fact been so successful that the manufacturers had difficulty meeting demand. Despite our repeated requests to obtain this lens it was delayed until such time that supply could be guaranteed.
Dailies Total 1 has a unique ‘gradient water content’ where the lens ‘core’ consists of a high oxygen transmitting silicone-hydrogel material which then gradually transitions to a high water content (over 80% water) hydrogel surface. Like a surrounding envelope. This unique structure makes for a lens which has a very smooth, highly lubricated surface. The lens has been shown - in our experience and by colleagues overseas - to provide improved comfort and reduced dryness throughout the wearing day while providing excellent vision and deposit resistance.
Value for money, hassle free convenience, improved safety, compliance, reduced allergic reactions and deposits that single use lenses provide, are additional benefits.
If you are thinking about contact lenses or have symptoms of dryness , discomfort or variable vision with your regular disposable or other one day disposables, please make an appointment to see one of our contact lens specialists. As part of our usual thorough optometric examination, we will assess your suitability for Dailies Total 1 and fit and provide some trial lenses so you can judge for yourself.
At present Dailies Total 1 lenses are only available for myopic (short-sighted) eyes requiring ‘minus’ lenses but we expect hyperopic (farsighted) ‘plus’ lenses later in 2014 and potentially astigmatism correcting (toric) lenses and presbyopia correcting multifocals in 2015.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Eyewear for Theatre
Mortimer Hirst works closely with film, theatre, fashion shows, stylists, costume designers, magazines and catalogues. As well as providing eyewear and sunglasses along with advice, styling and fitting, the Optometrists and Contact lens Specialists work on film sets, fitting and managing special effect contact lenses such as on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Mortimer Hirst has supplied the eyewear for the upcoming Auckland Theatre Company production Other Desert Cities. The play tells the story of a rich American family in all their Palm Springs glory and dysfunctional dynamics.
Tickets available now http://www.atc.co.nz/whats-on/2014/other-desert-cities
Mortimer Hirst has supplied the eyewear for the upcoming Auckland Theatre Company production Other Desert Cities. The play tells the story of a rich American family in all their Palm Springs glory and dysfunctional dynamics.
Tickets available now http://www.atc.co.nz/whats-on/2014/other-desert-cities
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Myopia Control
Myopia control refers to techniques employed by specially trained optometrists to slow or even stop the progression of myopia (“short-sightedness”) in children and teenagers during the growing years. Often myopia is quite genetic, and parents who have gone short sighted themselves as youngsters will bring their children in to ask if anything can be done to “slow things down”? If a child’s prescription can be kept at a lower level, it’s much easier for them later on as adults because they are more suitable for laser surgery, and less likely to suffer from myopic complications such as retinal detachment. There are currently four techniques being used for myopia control:
1) Orthokeratology (“Ortho-K)- this involves sleeping in rigid gas permeable contact lenses at night to re-shape the cornea
2) Specialised multifocal soft lenses worn daily
3) Atropine 0.01% eye drops- still in experimental stages
4) Steeply curved spectacle lenses- have some effect
All these techniques try to achieve the same thing- providing the periphery of the retina with as sharp an image as possible. It has been proven in independent research that a blurred image on the peripheral retina encourages the eyeball to elongate, causing progressive myopia.
At Mortimer Hirst we have been fitting specialised Ortho-K and multifocal lenses for myopia control for the past 4 ½ years, with great success. Most of our children enrolled in these programmes enjoy stable non-deteriorating vision from when they start until 18-20 years old, when the myopia is unlikely to progress further anyway. For more information on these exciting techniques, please contact us for a brochure!
1) Orthokeratology (“Ortho-K)- this involves sleeping in rigid gas permeable contact lenses at night to re-shape the cornea
2) Specialised multifocal soft lenses worn daily
3) Atropine 0.01% eye drops- still in experimental stages
4) Steeply curved spectacle lenses- have some effect
All these techniques try to achieve the same thing- providing the periphery of the retina with as sharp an image as possible. It has been proven in independent research that a blurred image on the peripheral retina encourages the eyeball to elongate, causing progressive myopia.
At Mortimer Hirst we have been fitting specialised Ortho-K and multifocal lenses for myopia control for the past 4 ½ years, with great success. Most of our children enrolled in these programmes enjoy stable non-deteriorating vision from when they start until 18-20 years old, when the myopia is unlikely to progress further anyway. For more information on these exciting techniques, please contact us for a brochure!
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Vintage Oliver Goldsmith
Mortimer
Hirst has secured an original, unused consignment of vintage, designer eyewear
by Oliver Goldsmith.
A beautiful
iconic range of vintage, retro, shell and stainless steel designs.
Currently on
display at Mortimer Hirst 9 High Street, Auckland CBD
Mortimer Hirst has the largest collection in New Zealand
of Original and Genuine Oliver Goldsmith Spectacle Frames from the 1960's.
Mortimer Hirst is the exclusive Auckland CBD stockist, Oliver Goldsmith
Spectacle Frames as worn & loved by the likes of Michael Caine, Peter
Sellers, Audrey Hepburn, Lord Snowdon, John Lennon and many more, into the 21st
century.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Mortimer Hirst - A City Star
Mortimer Hirst has recently featured on Air New Zealand's City Stars, an introduction to the City of Sails! You don't have to have a plane ticket to take a look at the video clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSD926ODDJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSD926ODDJM
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Lindberg: The Buffalo Horn Collection
The elegant new collection from Lindberg blends buffalo horn with ultra sleek titanium temples, giving the frames a luxurious look and feel. Layers of the best quality buffalo horn are laminated together giving the porous and natural product greater strength and stability.
The horn is available in four colour ways, although no two frames will be identical as each horn has its own unique colour pattern. Making each frame unique to its wearer. Beautifully presented in a designer case complete with a certificate of authenticity - this is truly something special.
The four key models of this stunning collection are available now at Mortimer Hirst.
The horn is available in four colour ways, although no two frames will be identical as each horn has its own unique colour pattern. Making each frame unique to its wearer. Beautifully presented in a designer case complete with a certificate of authenticity - this is truly something special.
The four key models of this stunning collection are available now at Mortimer Hirst.
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