Polarised · Single model · Made in runs of 400
Built for glare,
not for looks
Most sunglasses are jewellery that happens to be tinted. Halden is one pair, engineered around a single problem: what happens to your eyes after six hours in hard light.
UV400 blocked across UVA and UVB
Injected polariser, not a surface film
Frame weight, hinge to hinge
Pairs per run, then the run closes
A film scratches.
Ours cannot.
Cheap polarised lenses are a laminate stuck to the outside. It works until the first time you wipe grit off with your shirt. Halden's polariser is injected through the lens body, so there is no layer to lift, cloud or scratch away.
The spec
Base 8 wrap
Curved close enough to the face that light does not arrive from the side, which is where most of the squinting comes from.
Hydrophobic rear coating
Sweat beads and runs off the inner surface instead of drying into a haze you cannot see through.
Replaceable temples
The part that breaks is the part you can buy on its own. Two screws, no tools we do not send you.
"I stopped noticing them, which is the highest thing I can say about eyewear."
Questions
Why only one model?
Because a second model means splitting tooling, tolerances and attention. One frame, refined every run, beats six frames that are each nobody's priority.
Will they fit a narrow face?
The temples adjust at the hinge and the nose pads are swappable. Between the two there is about 8mm of range, which covers most faces but not all of them.
What happens when a run sells out?
It closes. The next run opens with whatever we learned from the last one, usually eight to ten weeks later.
Run 004 opens in March
Four hundred pairs. No pre-orders, no waitlist tiers, no early access for anyone.