Sercombe & Matheson Opticians is an independent boutique optometry practice with two central Wellington locations: 108 Featherston Street and Shop 2, 100 Molesworth Street in Thorndon. Services include eye exams, red eye consultations, contact lens fitting, civil aviation exams, eye disease diagnosis and post-surgery consultations. The practice is a Southern Cross Easy-claim provider, and it has its own workshop, so glasses can be made, repaired or refitted on site. The practice holds around 1,000 frames across its two locations, with European designs such as Face à Face, Ic! Berlin, Lara D' and William Morris. It also fits daily and custom contact lenses, and supplies sunglasses, prescription swimming goggles and prescription dive masks. The website lists new-customer offers, including a reduction on the eye exam fee for new customers who contact the practice through the website, and a 10 percent discount on glasses.
Customers praise the glasses repairs and the speed of turnaround, and one says their old sunglasses were made new with polarised lenses and improved frames. Another went looking for first sport prescription sunglasses and found the optometrist very helpful. A third says the optician gave an honest recommendation when a frame broke, rather than pushing a sale. Our pick in Wellington Central for repairs and sunglasses from an honest optometrist.