Jobs' preferred glasses were the German Lunor Classic Rund PP. The cover of the recently released "Steve Jobs" biography prominently featured a photo of him wearing a pair.
Lunor's website currently advertises the frames as "The Glasses of Steve Jobs," as noted by a report from The Wall Street Journal.
At a recent optical trade show in Hong Kong, Power Bloom, the Asian distributor of the glasses, set up a tribute to Jobs in a display case with the frames.
âSteve Jobs 1955-2011: We have lost an ultimate genius. What he has left us are his overwhelming ideas and his favorite glasses,â the display read.
A display for Steve Jobs' trademark glasses at a trade show in Hong Kong. Credit: Alex Frangos/Wall Street Journal.
According to Garick Tsui, a marketing executive for Power Bloom, sales of the round-lensed glasses have "dramatically increased" in the weeks after Jobs died.
âAfter he passed, many, many clients and customers asked for these glasses,â he said, estimating that sales were in the hundreds.
When questioned whether the company might be inappropriately profiting from his death, Tsui simply replied, "People see these as a tribute to Mr. Jobs."
Due to complications with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Jobs passed away on Oct. 5 at age 56.
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Horribly misleading title.
Not Steve Jobs' personal pair(s), the make of his personal pair(s).
Anyone else find this kind of hero worship slightly unhealthy (both with the glasses and turtlenecks)?
Seems to be the antithesis of everything Steve was about..
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
Steve Jobs's glasses ... or Harry Potter's?
Anyone else find this kind of hero worship slightly unhealthy (both with the glasses and turtlenecks)?
Seems to be the antithesis of everything Steve was about..
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
I agree. To prevent the copycats from taking over the world, he bought up the global supply of black mock turtlenecks (which subsequently spawned their supply chain management strategy).
I thought they were known as John Lennon glasses, but to be honest, anyone growing up in the UK who needed glasses as a kid in the 60s would be given a pair of these as they were the cheapest available. Back then there were no frameless versions though, to be fair.