Brahms
Warm tortoise acetate, an architecturally square silhouette that belongs in a library. The quiet frame.
Hover · See it wornA warm-tortoise square is the hardest shape to get right. Soletti has made one I would put on the cover of a book.
Worn with the Datejust 36, the Brahms becomes the only pair of glasses a man needs to inherit.
54-19-145. Mazzucchelli warm tortoise, gun-metal core. Quiet enough to be missed on the first read. Worth the second.
Italian Mazzucchelli 1849 acetate.
Cut from the same cellulose-acetate blocks Mazzucchelli has poured since 1849. Every Soletti frame is sliced and shaped by hand, then tumbled for seventy-two hours. The polish is what acetate does when it is left alone long enough.
Founder
The frame that belongs in a library.
The Brahms is the frame I wear when I am not trying. It is warm tortoise — the colour Mazzucchelli has been pouring for a hundred and seventy years, and the colour every man who buys a second pair of glasses eventually returns to.
I drew it as a square, then made the corners softer than the drawing because the face is not a drawing. Fifty-four millimetres at the lens, nineteen at the bridge, a temple long enough to fall over the ear without pressure. It is a frame for a man who reads, who finishes the wine, who closes the book before the page is finished and remembers where he stopped.
We paired it with the Datejust 36 in steel and yellow gold because both pieces refuse to argue with anything. They are designed to be worn by the same wrist for forty years and to look the same the day they are sold.
Brahms ×
Rolex Datejust
Brahms is the quiet frame — warm tortoise acetate, brown lens, an architecturally square silhouette that belongs in a library. We answered it with the Datejust 36 in steel and yellow gold, mother-of-pearl diamond dial — the most modest possible expression of a watch one inherits. Together they are the wrist that closes a book at dusk.
Build the Kit.
Add a case, a cloth, or both to your Soletti Brahms. Bundle two pieces and we’ll knock 5% off; three or more, 10%. Single shipment, single signature.
- 1 item—
- 2 items5% off
- 3+ items10% off
