What GQUEEN makes, and who it is for

Sunglasses and clear-lens frames, in five shapes a face has worn before: the pilot, the round, the browline, the cat-eye and the oversized square. The sunglasses are polarized and UV400 rated, in metal, TR90 nylon and polycarbonate frames. The clear-lens shelf is the same frames with a plain plano lens in them, worn for the look. Six shelves in all, and the two-pair bundles are pairings of frames from the other five.

Three things you can check on the card. The lens claims are printed separately, polarized and UV400, colourway by colourway, and a pair sold without a filter says so. The three numbers engraved inside a temple arm, lens width, bridge and temple length, are printed where we have them, so a buyer who has never measured a pair can hold their old one up to the new one. And every lens clears the federal impact rule for sunglasses, which is linked rather than paraphrased.

The trade is the frame. A fifteen-dollar polycarbonate pair does not feel like a hundred-dollar acetate one, and the card says so instead of pretending.

Anyone who has lost a pair before and does not want to mourn the next one. Within that, the metal pilot and the browline are cut for a medium to broad face, the round MTS2 at 48 millimetres for a narrow one, the oversized square and the cat-eye for someone who wants the brow and cheekbone covered. The clear-lens frames are for the look, and the honest line on their card is what the lens is not.

No. Every lens here is either a tinted polarized lens or a clear plano one, and neither corrects anything. The clear-lens frames are ordinary full-rim frames with metal hinges, and an optician could in principle cut a lens for one, but that is their call and not a promise of ours.

Since 2015, which is 11 years of the same two questions: will it fit, and does the lens do what the sticker says. The useful part of that is not the anniversary but its consequence. The pilot MOS1, the browline GQO6 and the round MTS2 have kept their shapes and their model codes across those years, so a buyer replacing a pair lost on a beach can order the same frame by its code rather than by hope.