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01Small lenses, deliberate frames

GQUEEN Round Sunglasses

The 48-millimetre steampunk circle with side shields, the stainless-steel retro round with spring hinges, and the semi-rimless browline that sits between round and square. All polarized.

  • 3 frames
  • 15 ways to buy them
  • 14 colourways
  • 48 mm lens width
  • $13.98 to $19.99

Colourways on this page: Glossy black / black, Matte black / black, Glossy black / mirrored blue, Glossy black / g15 dark green, Brown / brown, Glossy black black & tortoise brown, Glossy black black & brown brown, Black / grey, and 6 more.

Round is the shape that argues with a face rather than agreeing with it, and the two circles here argue in different accents. The MTS2 is the steampunk one: a 48-millimetre lens, a metal rim, and a short shield at each side that keeps light from coming in around the edge, which is the same thing the ophthalmologists like about a wraparound. On a 145-millimetre temple it is a small pair, and it suits a narrow face and looks deliberately odd on a broad one.

The retro round is the newer frame and the lighter one: stainless steel, spring hinges, twenty-one grams, in gold with a black lens or a mirrored rose-gold pink that is mostly bought for photographs. The browline GQO6 is on this page because people who search for round frames end up buying it: a thick bar across the top, no rim below the lens, seven colourways and more reviews than the two circles together. It is the frame that photographs as round and wears as square.

Every colourway here is priced on its own; the GQUEEN shelves keeps the figures current and the till is what decides.

02About these frames

Questions about GQUEEN Round Sunglasses

Small lenses, deliberate frames

How small is the GQUEEN round MTS2 lens?

Forty-eight millimetres across, with an 18-millimetre bridge and a 145-millimetre temple. That is ten millimetres narrower than the clear-lens pilot and fourteen narrower than the metal pilot. If the arm of your current pair says 50 or under, it will feel familiar; if it says 56, it will feel like a costume.

Are GQUEEN round sunglasses polarized?

All three frames on this page are, and all three are UV400. The one exception is inside the MTS2 line: the red-lens colourway is sold without a polarizing filter and is marked that way on its card.

Which GQUEEN round frame has spring hinges?

The retro round in stainless steel. The MTS2 has fixed hinges and the side shields do the work of keeping the frame in place, and the browline has ordinary metal hinges on a polycarbonate frame.

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