did you know that the average human
eyeball is two and a half centimeters
wide by two and a half centimeters deep
by a fraction over two centimeters tall
now that’s not the kind of information
you’re gonna need every day unless of
course you make them for a living
this medical laboratory has been
producing artificial eyes since World
War one back then
they were known as the army spectacle
Depot but they’ve come a long way since
then now they look after over 40,000
patients and they make over 6,000 eyes a
year every single eye is made by hand to
an exact order a wax pattern of the
patient’s eye socket is sent here to the
lab in Blackpool and a plaster of Paris
cast is made this produces a mould that
is the exact shape of the eye that
they’re gay to manufacture the iris or
colored part of the eye is painted onto
a flat plastic disc which is measured to
the size of the patient’s remaining iris
each iris is hand painted using
oil-based paints and the technicians
work from either a digital photo or a
previously painted eye to make sure that
it will match the other eye after 18
hours the iris paint is dry and it gets
pressed into a button shaped disc this
puts a curve on top of the iris so that
it will be flush on top of the round eye
the iris is placed upside down in a mold
and the white of the eye is made it’s
made out of poly methyl methacrylate a
medical grade acrylic plastic similar to
the material that used to make false
teeth once prepared it’s squashed down
into the cast of the top of the iris and
the whole mold goes into an oven for two
and a half hours
the eye is now starting to take shape
the excess acrylic material is trimmed
away on a grinding rail and the eye gets
stained and veined the average human eye
isn’t snow white so a bit of watercolor
paint is dabbed around the edges
depending on the patient’s natural color
this embroidery silk is used to
replicate the veins of the eye the
thread is separated into individual
fibers and applied with an acrylic
varnish
just one centimetre of this thread will
provide enough fibers to make over 100
eyes a coat of clear acrylic varnish is
applied over the top of the eye and it
gets even cured to seal it
finally a buff and polish gives us a
nice glossy finish and the appearance of
a living eye the expected lifespan of an
artificial eye is around six years as
long as it gets looked after properly
and the end result is pretty amazing
meet Pavel he’s been wearing an
artificial eye since an accident when he
was 15 can you tell which one it is
are you looking hot nope I can’t tell
either okay it’s actually the one on the
right of the frame what thanks pav
you
eyeball is two and a half centimeters
wide by two and a half centimeters deep
by a fraction over two centimeters tall
now that’s not the kind of information
you’re gonna need every day unless of
course you make them for a living
this medical laboratory has been
producing artificial eyes since World
War one back then
they were known as the army spectacle
Depot but they’ve come a long way since
then now they look after over 40,000
patients and they make over 6,000 eyes a
year every single eye is made by hand to
an exact order a wax pattern of the
patient’s eye socket is sent here to the
lab in Blackpool and a plaster of Paris
cast is made this produces a mould that
is the exact shape of the eye that
they’re gay to manufacture the iris or
colored part of the eye is painted onto
a flat plastic disc which is measured to
the size of the patient’s remaining iris
each iris is hand painted using
oil-based paints and the technicians
work from either a digital photo or a
previously painted eye to make sure that
it will match the other eye after 18
hours the iris paint is dry and it gets
pressed into a button shaped disc this
puts a curve on top of the iris so that
it will be flush on top of the round eye
the iris is placed upside down in a mold
and the white of the eye is made it’s
made out of poly methyl methacrylate a
medical grade acrylic plastic similar to
the material that used to make false
teeth once prepared it’s squashed down
into the cast of the top of the iris and
the whole mold goes into an oven for two
and a half hours
the eye is now starting to take shape
the excess acrylic material is trimmed
away on a grinding rail and the eye gets
stained and veined the average human eye
isn’t snow white so a bit of watercolor
paint is dabbed around the edges
depending on the patient’s natural color
this embroidery silk is used to
replicate the veins of the eye the
thread is separated into individual
fibers and applied with an acrylic
varnish
just one centimetre of this thread will
provide enough fibers to make over 100
eyes a coat of clear acrylic varnish is
applied over the top of the eye and it
gets even cured to seal it
finally a buff and polish gives us a
nice glossy finish and the appearance of
a living eye the expected lifespan of an
artificial eye is around six years as
long as it gets looked after properly
and the end result is pretty amazing
meet Pavel he’s been wearing an
artificial eye since an accident when he
was 15 can you tell which one it is
are you looking hot nope I can’t tell
either okay it’s actually the one on the
right of the frame what thanks pav
you
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