Ultimo Eyewear

The positive: there’s a nice selection of frames and the eye doctor is a nice guy. The rest of the experience: Beyond him, the business is devoid of any «cool people». The shop owner has a pretentious way about him, kind of an «I’m doing you a favor accepting your business» sort of manner. I was wiling to pay almost $ 1000.00 for the glasses that were promised in a week to ten days. Three weeks later, work hadn’t even started on them. Unless you’re a slave to fashion and a glutton for poor customer service, avoid this joint like the plague.

Great service, wonderful selection of frames, friendly & competent staff. Just love my new sunglasses from ‘Spain’. A great find!

Great lookin spot in a cute location. Cool bunch of people here and they do good work.
They give you good product, good service, and no BS. Got my prescription, lenses, and fitting here and will be coming back for the next set.

Every year for the last 5 years, I have basically bought a new pair of glasses and then never wore them… it’s because I have the flattest asian bridge EVER and it has been impossible to find glasses that don’t just slide off my face or hit right up against my eyeballs.
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED.
Checked out Ultimo Eyewear in Huntingdon Valley — and even though it was a bit of a trek for me, it was totally worth it. Full service shop! They have an optometrist and an optician who both are very friendly, helpful and extremely knowledgeable.
I decided to try daily wear contacts for the first time, and admittedly, I was skeptical because a) I was afraid of the cost and b) I just didn’t think my vision would be as good in them. Timmy, the on-​site optometrist, totally heard all my concerns and was sooooo patient with me as I annoyingly asked a barrage of questions and tried various samples of daily lenses –toric and non-​toric! I appreciated his frank assessment of what I would actually need — he is the first optometrist who told me I probably didn’t need to shell out the extra bucks for the toric lenses based on my astigmatism. YAY!
On the eyewear side, this is one of the best eyeglass/​sunglass frame shops I have seen in awhile. Not only do they have the line of usual designer suspects, but they also had really cool, new, interesting looking frames. Chris, the optician, told me they are one of the few carriers (apparently) of this exclusive brand DITA from Japan. The reason I mention this is because I was introduced to them and impulsively ended up buying a pair. Extremely sturdy, has a great weight/​structure to them. The awesome part was that I hadn’t even spent a few minutes trying to soak in the overwhelming number of frame choices before Chris started handing me frames that he thought would work for me. And lo and behold — he is the professional for a reason — the ones he handed me fit my face perfectly and eventually I found one I loved.
So now, unwittingly, I’m the proud owner of a super-​awesome pair of DITA frames and a year’s supply of daily contacts!
Oh, and these guys are super cool. They have a Microsoft KInect in their office. You can play while your friend gets his/​her eyes checked. It’s pretty awesome. How much better is that than a stack of old People/​Scholastic magazines?!