Order entry
Prescriptions arrive through the Virtual Lab, by fax, or by phone. Each job is checked for completeness and assigned a tray number that follows it through every stage.
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Virtual Lab Tour
Follow a prescription through our Watsonville facility — from the moment the order lands to the moment it ships back to your practice.
A walkthrough of our Watsonville laboratory.
Step by step
What you just watched, stage by stage
Frame distribution, prescription fulfillment, and AR coating all run under one roof, so a job never leaves the building between stages.
Lens selection
The job is pulled against our multi-million dollar stock inventory. Because we carry the major designs plus our own TotalView® progressives, most orders are filled from the shelf rather than backordered.
Varilux · Zeiss · Essilor · Seiko · HoyaBlocking
Each lens blank is precisely aligned to its optical center and secured to a block, fixing the geometry that every subsequent cut depends on.
Surfacing & generating
Automated generators cut the back surface to the prescribed power. Digital free-form processing produces the complex curves that progressive and high-prescription work requires.
Advanced automationFining & polishing
The generated surface is refined and polished to optical clarity, removing tooling marks so the finished lens transmits light cleanly.
Anti-reflective coating
Lenses move into our dedicated 2,500 sq ft coating facility, where premium AR is applied in-house — Crizal®, Crizal Alizé®, Magnum Strada®, or Magnum® — with same-day service available.
In-house · same-day availableEdging & mounting
Lenses are traced to the frame, edged to shape, and mounted. Since we distribute frames from the same building, frame and lenses come together without an outside shipment.
Final inspection & shipping
Every job is verified against the prescription and industry tolerances before it is cleaned, packaged, and dispatched by CSC courier or overnight carrier.
Track online at any stage
The facility
Built as one consolidated lab
Our Watsonville facility was purpose-built to bring three operations that are usually separate into a single building.
54,000
square feet of laboratory space in Northern California
2,500
square feet dedicated to anti-reflective coating production
$10M+
invested in the state-of-the-art Watsonville laboratory
See it in person
We welcome customers who want to walk the floor and see how their work is produced. Call to arrange a visit.