Randolph Engineering
- Headquarters
- Randolph, MA
- Manufacturing
- Randolph, MA · Overseas (military prescription frames; country not disclosed)
- Categories
- eyewear · sports-and-outdoors
Randolph Engineering was started south of Boston by two Polish-born machinists, Jan Waszkiewicz and Stanley Zaleski. The company gives 1973 as its founding year; the Boston Globe, writing in 2013, put it at 1972, when the firm began as an optical machinery shop before turning to sunglasses a few years later. It has supplied aviator sunglasses to the US military since the late 1970s, still builds its HGU-4/P Aviator to the military specification, and makes frames in the town of Randolph, Massachusetts, where the Globe counted 60 employees.
The mark here is the floor, for the same reason as Danner’s. Randolph’s own about page says every frame is handcrafted in the USA with domestic and imported components, but its shop also sells a set of military prescription frames whose product pages say they are “made in our NATO allied countries.” So the brand-level mark is the imported one, and the US-built frames are recorded below as products with their own evidence.
Those US-built frames sit at the second mark, not the first. Randolph is candid about it: the Aviator and Concorde pages say “Made in USA from quality U.S. and global components,” and the Globe described the factory bending imported wire into frames. The soldering, plating and polishing happen in Massachusetts, with finishes done by named firms in Rhode Island and Florida; the lens origin is not stated.
For a buyer: the Aviator, Concorde, P3 and Archer lines are the Massachusetts ones. The low-priced prescription frames sold to service members (FGN, Neptune, Triton, Reaper, Maverick, Spartan, Keesler) are the imported ones, and their product pages say so.
The record
Randolph says it hand-builds its frames in the USA from domestic and imported components
“More than 50 years later, Randolph remains proudly independent, handcrafting every frame in the USA with domestic and imported components and with the same commitment to quality that defined its founders.”
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Part of the range is made abroad, and Randolph says so on the product page
“This pair of Rx frames is one of several styles currently available to our US Military men and women made in our NATO allied countries.”
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The Boston Globe described the Randolph factory bending imported wire into frames
“No matter what an individual pair costs, all Randolph Engineering glasses originate in the same place. A machine in the factory begins the process by bending imported wire into eyeglass frames to fit individual lenses.”
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Frame finishes are applied in the USA by named outside plating and coating firms
“We partner with local experts, including Tanury Industries in Rhode Island for electroplating precious metals and Rampart Coatings in Florida for Cerakote finishes.”
randolphusa.comRetrieved
Domain record
randolphusa.com was registered on .It dates the domain, not the business: a maker that moved to a new address reads young here, and an old domain says nothing about who holds it now.
RDAP registry record · checked 19 Sep 2026
Products
Where to buyAviator Military Special Edition, 23k Gold
Assembled in USAThis item carries a different mark from Randolph Engineering as a whole, so it has its own record.
The product page says the frame is made in the USA from US and global components
“Made in USA from quality U.S. and global components.”
randolphusa.comRetrieved
Where to buyConcorde, 23k Gold with American Gray Lenses
Assembled in USAThis item carries a different mark from Randolph Engineering as a whole, so it has its own record.
The product page says the frame is made in the USA from US and global components
“Made in USA from quality U.S. and global components.”
randolphusa.comRetrieved
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