Polarised Sunglasses UV400 Wrap-Around

Cut the glare off water, road and paintwork.

Late afternoon, driving west. The sun sits low, the bitumen is wet and every panel in front of you throws light straight back at your eyes. You squint, you stop scanning properly, and the moment you stop reading the road is the moment you miss something.

Same story on the water. Glare bouncing off the surface hides everything underneath it — the snag, the drop-off, the fish. You spend the day fighting the light instead of watching what matters, and you go home with a headache and sore eyes.

A polarised lens is not just a dark lens. A dark lens dims everything equally. A polarised filter cuts the horizontal light that bounces off flat surfaces — water, wet bitumen, painted metal — so the glare drops away and the detail underneath stays. That is the whole point of them, and it is the one claim on this page you can test yourself: a polarisation test card ships in the box.

These are sport-styled sunglasses on a TR90 frame, in four lens tints. They are not safety glasses and they carry no impact rating. Read the Limits tab before you buy them for site work.

What It Does

• Cuts reflected glare: the polarised filter takes the bounce off water, wet bitumen and painted metal, rather than just dimming the whole scene.
• Blocks UV, per the supplier: the lenses are marked UV400, which the supplier states blocks UVA and UVB up to 400 nanometres.
• Wraps past your eye: the curved frame keeps low sun, wind and grit from coming in around the side.
• Lets you check it: the included test card means you can confirm the polarising filter is real instead of trusting a label.
• Four tints, one frame: the frame is black on every option and the second colour in the name is the lens, not the frame.

Key Features

• Square wrap-around sport frame in TR90 thermoplastic, stated on the supplier's own artwork
• Black frame on all four options, with a moulded side vent and a metal-look badge on each temple
• Four lens tints: grey, red mirror, blue mirror and yellow
• Polarised lenses, stated by the supplier
• Marked UV400 by the supplier
• Polarisation test card included so the filter can be verified on arrival
• Supplied with a glasses case, a soft bag and a cleaning cloth, per the supplier's contents list
• Lens size given by the supplier as 67 mm wide and 45 mm high
• TR90 is a nylon-based thermoplastic — light and flexible, with no titanium content

Limits

They are not safety glasses. We examined the lenses and both temples at high magnification and found no moulded marking of any kind. There is no AS/NZS 1337 stamp and no ANSI Z87.1 stamp. Certified eyewear carries a permanent moulded mark; these carry none, so keep them away from grinding, cutting, chipping or anything else that throws debris and use rated safety eyewear for that work.

UV400 is a marking, not a certificate. The supplier states the lenses are 100% UV400. No test report has been sighted, and these have not been tested or certified to AS/NZS 1067, the Australian and New Zealand sunglass standard. Take the UV figure as the supplier's claim rather than an independently verified number.

The lens category is not stated. Sunglasses are graded 0 to 4 for how much light the lens lets through, and that grade is what tells you whether a tint suits driving. The supplier states no category for any of these tints, and guessing one would be inventing a safety figure. Treat all four as daylight lenses and take them off at night.

The yellow lens is a contrast tint, not night vision. A yellow lens can make edges look crisper in flat, overcast light. It does not help you see in the dark and it is not a night-driving product. No tinted lens is.

Not prescription, not fit-over. Single-tint, non-corrective lenses. They will not take a prescription and they are not cut to sit over your everyday glasses.

Mirror coatings mark easily. The red and blue lenses are mirrored on the outer face, and mirror finishes show scratches and fingerprints far more than a plain tint. Use the cloth and the case rather than dropping them in the console.

Fit is a gamble. The supplier gives a lens size but no frame width, temple length or bridge width, so there is no way to tell you how these sit on a wide or a narrow face.

Q & A

How do I know the lenses are really polarised?

Use the test card in the box. You look at the card through the lens and rotate it 90° — a hidden image appears or disappears if the filter is real. That card is the reason this page states the polarised claim at all: it is the most-copied unverified spec in eyewear, and this one you can check yourself the day it lands.

Can I wear the yellow ones for night driving?

No. Do not drive at night in any tinted lens, yellow included. Yellow lifts contrast in dull daylight, and that is the whole of what it does.

Are they any good for site work?

Not as eye protection. There is no impact rating and no moulded standard marking on them, so they do not replace rated safety glasses on a job that throws anything. As sunglasses for the drive in, or a crib break in the sun, they do the job.

Is the frame really titanium?

No. The supplier's own artwork states a TR90 frame, and TR90 is a nylon-based thermoplastic with no titanium in it. It is light and it flexes rather than snapping, which is why sport frames use it. This page previously called it "plastic titanium", which is a marketplace habit and misleading, so it has been corrected.

What actually comes in the box?

The supplier lists one pair of sunglasses, a glasses case, a soft bag, a cleaning cloth and the polarisation test card. None of the gallery photographs show the accessories, so that list is the supplier's word rather than something photographed here.

Which tint should I pick?

Grey shifts colours the least, so it is the neutral all-rounder. Red and blue are mirrored and knock back more light again, which suits open water and snow. Yellow is for flat, overcast light where you want contrast rather than darkness. All four are daylight lenses.

Specs

Rows marked "supplier stated" are the supplier's own figures. They have not been measured here and no matching manufacturer spec panel was found to corroborate them.