When the flag falls, the field thins to include only those with grit, wit, and the will to hold a line. Named for Mark Donohue—the American driver and mechanical engineer known, with deceptive neatness, as “Captain Nice”—the DONOHU carries the confidence of a man who won Indianapolis in 1972, conquered Can-Am in 1973, and called his autobiography The Unfair Advantage.

Broad, boxy, and beautifully sure of itself, the DONOHU sets wide lenses inside a sturdy 10mm acetate front with titanium brow bar, while slender titanium temples carry precision through the profile, the acetate holding its ground as the metalwork slips away with speed. At the temples, custom tension-secured ‘Le Mans’ hinges connect the frame front to finely engraved titanium temples finished with hand-painted epoxy accents and double-laminated acetate temple sleeves.

Swagger, but never slack, gives these limited-edition spectacles their charge, carrying the clean manners of good form toward the split-second decision to go for broke.