SWORKE: sports eyewear from Singapore
SWORKE sports sunglasses come from a background of more than 20 years of occupational safety optics, built for work and for rough conditions.
SWORKE is a brand from Singapore of prescription eyewear for sports. Conceived in 2005, the red dot in the brand logo represents the very essence its Singaporean roots. Today, SWORKE eyewear brings its years of experience to you.
Today
SWORKE prescription eyewear is engineered and created with the sports athlete in mind. A striking athletic sports styling frame in sleek vivid finish with sweeping high impact resistant polarized lens. They are made for movement — running, cycling, on the water — rather than for standing still.
Featuring an inner prescription (RX) insert, SWORKE eyewear is equally great for active individuals who need corrective lens.
SWORKE features lightweight sunglasses that grips tight, and never let go.
Exceptional frame styling integrated with sleek curved lenses, SWORKE eyewear is a timeless design for individuals of all ages and genders.
Featuring an inner prescription (RX) insert, SWORKE sunglasses are great for active individuals who need corrective lens.
Choosing sports sunglasses in Singapore
A sports frame is built differently from an everyday sunglass: a wrapped lens curve, grip at the nose and temples, and a light frame that stays put when you move. Because the lens is strongly curved, many sports frames carry correction on a flat insert behind the wrap rather than in the outer lens itself.
Visio Optical is an independent, fitting-led boutique optician in Holland Village, Singapore, and has been here for nearly twenty years. The best way to choose a frame is to try it in person — fit, proportion and comfort can only really be judged when you put a frame on. Rudy Project sits alongside SWORKE among the sports frames we work with.
For everyday sunglasses made up to your own correction rather than a sport-specific wrap, see prescription sunglasses.
How correction works in a wrapped sports frame
The wrap that makes a sports frame sit close to the face also gives the lens a strong curve, and a strongly curved lens is harder to carry a correction in. Two approaches are common. The first is a flat carrier — an insert — that clips behind the wrap and holds the correction, leaving the outer lens as it was designed. The second is glazing the outer lens itself, which is possible only within the base curve the frame was built around.
An insert keeps the tint, curve and coverage of the sports lens intact, and it can be lifted out when the frame is passed on or the correction changes. Glazing the outer lens gives a cleaner look through, but not every wrap will take it. Which route a frame allows is a question about that frame’s shape, and it is worth settling before the frame is chosen rather than after.
Either way the lenses are made up by a lens maker — ZEISS and Hoya among them. The best way to choose a frame is to try it in person: fit, proportion and comfort can only really be judged when you put a frame on, and on a sports frame that means checking the grip at the nose and temples with the head down and moving.