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Silver, as a precious metal, has always been very popular in the world as jewelry and accessories. Now more and more eyewear brands are adding sterling silver glasses frames to their collections, providing more choices for those who pursue high-end glasses. Silver causes less allergies to the wearer when applied to glasses, while adding to the luxurious feel of the entire pair of glasses.
The very famous brand Chrome Hearts has always been popular. Chrome Heart uses a medieval gothic style combined with punk rock, incorporating a lot of crosses, flowers, daggers and knights. Their silver accessories deliberately retain the dark color after oxidation during production and then polish them, allowing the silver metal to show a unique luster on the glasses.
In fact, there are many different types of silver frames. Here we mainly use the combination of silver and different materials as a classification.
The first type is sterling silver glasses frames. The entire pair of glasses is made of 925 silver, with different patterns and surface effects. Compared with titanium and stainless steel, the silver frame will be heavier, giving the entire pair of glasses a very luxurious feel.
The second is to use silver as an accessory and become part of the decoration of a pair of glasses. For example, temples, pins, and bridges are made of silver. Other parts are made of common materials such as acetate and titanium. This kind of design can not only retain the advantages of conventional materials, such as the various colors of acetate, and the softness, lightness and hypoallergic of titanium, but also add more design elements to the entire pair of glasses to enhance the level of luxury, while avoiding excessive weight and the sales price too high.
As a precious metal, for enhancing the whole level, silver is usually combined with other expensive materials, such as gems, diamonds, and horns.
Processing silver as eyeglasses has different process priorities than other materials. The first is the hardness of the silver and the temperature of the soldering. Silver is a relatively soft metal with a hardness of only 2.5-4, while stainless steel has a hardness of 5.5-6, and even titanium has a hardness of 6. Therefore, it is necessary not only to ensure the strength of silver when used as glasses, but also to ensure that its purity is sufficient to meet the 925 standards. This requires special processing of the silver, first reaching sufficient strength to make the corresponding parts of the glasses, and then using technology to restore it to its due purity.
Next is welding. Silver has a low melting point and is easily oxidized and turns black. Its welding process is quite different from titanium and stainless steel. It is necessary to ensure the stability of the welding, but also to ensure that the silver is not oxidized and remains bright.
This is also the reason why silver frames are more expensive in addition to the material cost.