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Sovereign
Sunglasses
An oversized square in thick acetate, with a cut-out triangle in each temple and a small gold ornament at the lower corner of the lens. Six colourways.
Polarised lenses with anti-glare treatment and full UV400 filtering.
Coverage as the whole point
This frame is built to cover. The lens is cut square and carried out past the outer corner of the eye, and the temple is wide enough to close off the side as well, so very little light gets in from any angle. What stops it reading as sportswear is the finish: thick acetate, a flat front and a single small ornament instead of branding across the arm.
Photographed here in Obsidian Silver. The same front is offered in six colourways.
Wide front, open temple
The front is moulded acetate, thick across the brow and squared off at the outer corner where the lens is at its widest. A small gold-tone ornament is set into the acetate at the lower outer corner of each lens — the only piece of metal visible from the front.
The temples are the part that does the work. Each is a broad acetate panel with a triangular section cut clean through it, so the arm shades the side of the face without turning into a solid block. They run on metal hinges and finish flat rather than curled.
The frame is acetate; the pale finishes are the same material in a solid pigment.
Where it sits
- An oversized square that covers well past the outer corner of the eye
- Wide temples close off the side, so less light comes in from the edge
- Thick acetate spreads the weight across the bridge instead of pinching it
- A moulded acetate bridge, so the height on the nose is fixed rather than adjustable
- The flat front sits clear of the cheek even on a high cheekbone
Filtered, not just tinted
The lenses are polarised with an anti-glare treatment and full UV400 filtering across UVA and UVB. Polarisation is what removes the flat white shine off a wet road, a windscreen or open water; UV400 is the protection figure, and it is the number worth reading on any pair.
Every colourway is a gradient — darker at the top, clearer towards the bottom — which keeps the lower field of vision open for reading a phone or a menu.
Six colourways, one front
Obsidian Silver and Obsidian Gold share the black front and differ in the lens; Alabaster and Brown Gradient share the ivory front.
Why it costs what it costs
An oversized acetate front uses more material than a normal one and every extra millimetre has to be finished by hand at the edge. Cutting a shape clean through the temple is a second operation on top of that, and a polarised lens costs more than a tint. None of that is where the usual shelf price comes from.
We sell direct. There is no shop floor between the frame and you and no distributor taking a cut on the way, so the retail margin that normally sits on top of a build like this is simply not in the price. What that money pays for instead is the lens — polarised with UV400 on all six colourways, rather than the good lens being reserved for one finish.
- Sold direct — no retail margin stacked on the frame
- Polarised, UV400 lenses rather than a plain tint
- Moulded acetate front rather than a thin printed plastic one
- Cut-out temple panels instead of a flat printed arm
- Six colourways at one price, across three front colours
| Frame | Acetate, moulded |
|---|---|
| Front colours | Black, ivory, pale pink and dark green |
| Rim | Full rim, oversized square |
| Hinge | Metal hinge |
| Bridge | Moulded acetate, fixed |
|---|---|
| Temples | Wide acetate panel with a cut-out section |
| Lens | Polarised with anti-glare treatment |
| UV protection | UV400, UVA and UVB |
1 × Sovereign Sunglasses · 1 × case · 1 × cleaning cloth
Is this a large frame?
Yes. It is cut oversized on purpose — the lens carries past the outer corner of the eye and the temple is broad. On a narrow face it will read big, which for this shape is the point.
Are the nose pads adjustable?
No. The bridge is moulded into the acetate front, so the height on the nose is fixed. An optician can warm and reshape acetate slightly, but not the way metal pads adjust.
What does polarised actually change?
It removes the flat glare that bounces off horizontal surfaces — wet tarmac, a car bonnet, water, snow. Colours look deeper and you squint less. It is separate from UV filtering, which this lens also carries at UV400.
Do the cut-out temples let light in?
A little, at the very edge of your vision. The panel is wide enough that the opening sits behind the eye rather than beside it, so in practice it reads as a design detail rather than a gap.
Will the pale finishes mark?
Ivory and pale pink show a mark more readily than black, but it is surface only and lifts with the cloth supplied. Keeping the pair in its case is what makes the difference.
How should it be cleaned?
Rinse under cool water to lift grit, then dry with the cloth supplied. Keep acetate away from heat — a car dashboard in summer is what warps a frame, not wear.
Six colourways, and not many of each
Each finish is held in a small run. Rose Gradient and Emerald Noir are the two that go first, and when a colourway goes it is not always brought back.
Pick your colourway above and add it to the bag. If it is not right on your face, send it back — the only thing you risk is missing the one you wanted.