Progressive
Distance, intermediate and near in a single lens with no visible line. The default choice once reading glasses start appearing on every table in the house.
A Z Optics Centre
See the world as it actually is
Precision eye care and designer eyewear at Queensway Shopping Centre since 1987.
The Precision Standard
An optical shop in Singapore since 1987. Every lens centred on the ZEISS i.Terminal 2, in the frame you actually chose, in the posture you actually hold.
What we fit at our Queensway optical shop
Four things, done to a standard, and the lens houses behind them.
Built for the way you actually see
The measurements behind a pair you forget you are wearing.
Digital Centration
A progressive lens has a narrow corridor of clear vision. Two millimetres off your true pupil centre and the periphery swims.
ZEISS i.Terminal 2
- Measures
- Fitting position, digitally
- In
- Your chosen frame
- As
- You naturally hold your head
- Replaces
- A ruler and a marker pen
Children’s Myopia Control
A stronger prescription every year is not inevitable. These lenses correct vision like any other, and carry a structure intended to slow the eye’s elongation.
Essilor Stellest
- Worn as
- Ordinary spectacles
- Requires
- Full-time wear
- Reviewed
- On a set schedule, not annually
- Alternative
- HOYA MiyoSmart
Anti-Fatigue Lenses
A small amount of reading support built into the lower lens, for people not yet in progressives who spend all day on screens and feel it by evening.
Select your style
The brands we carry in our spectacle shop
Thirty-nine frame, lens and contact lens houses, chosen rather than stocked. All fitted and dispensed in store at Queensway.
Eyewear and frames
Braun Büffel, Burberry, CHARMANT, Coach, DITA Lancier, Emporio Armani, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Kate Spade, Marc Jacobs, Masaki Matsushima, MCM, Mona Lisa, Montblanc, Nautica, New Balance, Nike, Polaroid, Porsche Design, Prada, Ray-Ban, Saint Laurent, Salvatore Ferragamo, Silhouette, Tom Ford and Under Armour glasses frames.
Contact lenses and care
ACUVUE, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb, CooperVision, Menicon and SEED contact lenses, with Opto-Pharm lens care.
Spectacle lenses
ZEISS, Essilor, HOYA, Kodak and Shamir spectacle lenses.
Book the hour
A first examination is scheduled as a full hour, because a queue is a poor reason to stop asking questions.
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Seeing is believing
Home / About
Established 1987
An optical centre at Queensway, run the old way
Thirty-eight years in one shop, fitting spectacles for families who keep coming back and now bring their children.
Our story
The shop has not moved. Neither has the standard
AZ Optics Centre opened at Queensway Shopping Centre in 1987 and has stayed there ever since. It is not a chain, there is no second branch, and the person who measures your eyes is the person who fits your frame and the person you come back to when something is not right.
That continuity is the whole point. A prescription is a snapshot; vision is a trend. Knowing what your eyes were doing three years ago is worth more than any single test, and it is something only the same optician in the same shop can give you.
How we work
Four commitments
- Time
- A first examination is booked for a full hour. Not because it always takes an hour, but because it sometimes does, and a queue is a poor reason to stop asking questions.
- Measurement
- Progressive and customised lenses are centred on the ZEISS i.Terminal 2 digital system, in the frame you have actually chosen, in your natural posture.
- Honesty
- If your current spectacles are fine, we will tell you they are fine. If a cheaper lens does the job for how you use your eyes, that is the lens we will recommend.
- Aftercare
- Adjustment, alignment and a second opinion on how a new prescription is settling are part of buying from us, not a separate transaction.
Accreditation
Partnered where it counts
Authorised partner status is not a marketing badge. It means the manufacturer has trained us on their product, that the equipment on our floor is theirs, and that what you are sold is genuine and traceable.
- ZEISS
- Authorised Vision Partner. i.Terminal 2 digital centration and the full ZEISS lens portfolio.
- Essilor
- Partner, including Stellest for childhood myopia management.
- Alcon
- Authorised Partner for contact lenses and lens care.
- HOYA
- MiyoSmart myopia control lenses and the HOYA spectacle lens range.
Come and be measured properly
Queensway Shopping Centre, #01-39. Open every day, 10.30am to 9pm.
Home / Eye Care / Eye Examination
One hour, by appointment
Eye examination and eye test in Singapore
A full vision check-up at Queensway: eyesight test, prescription, and a proper conversation about the lenses that suit how you actually use your eyes.
The appointment
What the hour actually includes
- Vision test
- A measured check of how clearly each eye sees, at distance and near, and how the two work together.
- Prescription
- Your current correction established and compared against what you were wearing, so change is visible rather than assumed.
- Myopia evaluation
- Where short-sightedness is present, an assessment of where it sits now and whether it is moving.
- Frame and lens advice
- What you read, drive, screen-watch and work on decides the lens. That conversation is the part most people have never been offered.
- Digital centration
- If you proceed, your fitting measurements are taken on the ZEISS i.Terminal 2 in the frame you have chosen.
Why an hour, and not fifteen minutes
A fifteen-minute test can produce a technically accurate prescription and still send you home with spectacles you dislike. The number is the easy part. What takes time is finding out that you spend six hours a day on two screens at different distances, or that you drive at night, or that your last progressives never felt right and you never said so.
How often to have your eyes tested
Most adults with stable vision are checked every two years. Come sooner if you are straining at screens, holding things further away to read, getting headaches by late afternoon, or noticing glare when driving at night. Children whose myopia is progressing are monitored far more frequently, which is a separate conversation.
Children’s myopia control →Common questions
Before you book
Do I need an appointment for an eye test?
Booking is recommended, because the examination is scheduled as a full hour and that hour is held for you. You are welcome to walk in and we will fit you in where we can, but the diary is the safer route.
How long does an eye examination take?
The appointment is booked for one hour. That covers the vision test, the prescription, the discussion about lenses, and the digital fitting measurements if you go ahead with spectacles on the day.
What should I bring?
Your current spectacles, any spare pairs you still use, and your most recent prescription if you have it. If you wear contact lenses, bring the box or the details of what you are currently in.
Can you test children?
Yes. Children’s vision is examined here and, where short-sightedness is progressing, managed with Essilor Stellest or HOYA MiyoSmart lenses and monitored over time.
Where are you and what are your opening hours?
1 Queensway, Queensway Shopping Centre #01-39, Singapore 149053. We are open Monday to Sunday, 10.30am to 9pm.
Home / Eye Care / Progressive Lenses
ZEISS, Essilor, HOYA, Kodak and Shamir
Progressive lenses, centred to the millimetre
High-end progressive and anti-fatigue lenses, digitally fitted so the clear corridor lands where your eyes actually travel rather than where a ruler guessed.
The principle
One lens, three distances, no line
A progressive lens carries your distance prescription at the top, your reading prescription at the bottom, and a gradual change between the two. There is no visible line and no second pair to carry. Most people over forty end up in them.
The trade-off is that the clear zone narrows as it descends, which is why fit matters more here than in any other lens. Get the centration right and you stop noticing the lens within a week. Get it wrong and you spend a year tilting your head.
Why we measure digitally
Two millimetres is the whole difference
The corridor of clear vision in a progressive lens is narrow by design. If it is positioned two millimetres off your true pupil centre, the periphery swims, stairs become unnerving, and reading drifts off to one side.
The ZEISS i.Terminal 2 captures your fitting position digitally, wearing the actual frame, in your natural head posture. It replaces the marker pen and the ruler with a measurement you can see on screen, and it is the single biggest reason a progressive lens either works or does not.
Lens types we fit
Matched to how you use your eyes
Anti-fatigue
A small amount of reading support built into the lower lens for people who are not yet in progressives but spend all day on screens and feel it by evening.
Customised single vision
Personalised to your frame, your fitting position and your habitual working distances rather than a stock curve.
What progressive lenses cost, and why the range is wide
Price follows the lens design rather than the frame. A wider clear corridor and a gentler blend cost more to manufacture, and the stronger your prescription the more that difference is worth. We will quote you in the chair once we know your prescription, your frame and how you use your eyes, and we will tell you plainly when the more expensive design would not earn its money for you.
Lens partners. ZEISS, Essilor, HOYA, Kodak and Shamir. Which manufacturer suits you depends on your prescription, your frame and how you use your eyes, and it is a decision made in the chair rather than from a website.
Common questions
About progressives
How long does it take to get used to progressive lenses?
Most people adapt within one to two weeks if the lens is centred correctly. Wear them full time during that period rather than switching back and forth, which is what usually prolongs it. If something still feels wrong after a fortnight, come back and we will check the fit rather than tell you to persevere.
Why are some progressive lenses so much more expensive than others?
The difference is the width of the clear corridor and how gently the prescription changes across it. A more advanced design gives you a wider usable zone and less distortion at the edges, which matters more the stronger your prescription and the more time you spend in the intermediate range.
Can I put progressive lenses in my existing frame?
Often yes, provided the frame is deep enough for the corridor and structurally sound. Bring it in and we will measure it. A frame that is too shallow will compress the reading zone into something unusable, which is worth knowing before rather than after.
Do you do progressive contact lenses?
Multifocal contact lenses are fitted here as part of a contact lens consultation. They work differently from spectacle progressives and suit some prescriptions better than others.
Home / Eye Care / Children’s Myopia Control
Essilor Stellest and HOYA MiyoSmart
Children’s myopia control in Singapore
Spectacle lenses designed to slow how quickly a child’s short-sightedness worsens, fitted and monitored at Queensway.
Why it matters
A stronger prescription every year is not inevitable
Singapore has one of the highest rates of childhood myopia in the world. Most parents are told the same thing each visit: the prescription has gone up again, here is a stronger pair, see you next year.
Myopia control lenses are designed to change that trajectory. They correct your child’s vision like an ordinary lens, and at the same time carry a structure across the periphery intended to slow the eye’s elongation, which is what drives the prescription upwards.
The aim is not a cure. It is a lower final prescription in adulthood, and the lower that number ends up, the smaller the long-term risk that comes with high myopia.
The two lenses we fit
Stellest and MiyoSmart
Stellest
Essilor’s myopia management lens, worn as an ordinary pair of spectacles. We are an Essilor Partner, so Stellest is fitted here from an authorised source with the monitoring that should accompany it.
MiyoSmart
HOYA’s myopia control lens, again worn as a normal pair of glasses. Which of the two suits your child depends on their prescription, their age and how fast it has been moving.
Neither lens works on its own. Myopia control is a programme, not a purchase. It depends on consistent full-time wear and on returning for measurement so the rate of change can actually be seen. We will tell you at the outset what that commitment looks like.
How it runs
Assess, fit, measure, repeat
The value is in the follow-up. A single fitting tells you nothing about whether the approach is working for your child.
AssessmentA full examination including where the myopia sits now, and a look back at previous prescriptions to establish how fast it has been moving.
DiscussionWhether myopia control is appropriate, which lens suits, and an honest account of what it can and cannot be expected to do.
FittingFrame selection that a child will genuinely wear all day, and digital centration so the lens sits correctly.
MonitoringScheduled reviews to measure change rather than guess at it, and to adjust the plan if the numbers say so.
Parents ask
Common questions
At what age should my child start myopia control?
As soon as myopia is diagnosed and showing signs of progressing. The younger a child becomes short-sighted, the more years of progression lie ahead, which is exactly why early management has the most to offer. Bring them in and we will assess.
Will my child have to wear the lenses all the time?
Yes, and this is the part that decides whether it works. These lenses only do their job while they are on the face. Part-time wear produces part-time results, so we spend real time on choosing a frame a child will not take off.
How is this different from ordinary spectacles?
An ordinary lens corrects vision and nothing else. A myopia control lens corrects vision and carries an additional structure across the periphery intended to slow the eye’s elongation. To look at, and to your child, they are simply glasses.
How often do we come back?
Considerably more often than the standard two-year adult check. The whole approach depends on measuring the rate of change, and the schedule is set at the first appointment based on your child’s history.
Home / Eye Care / Contact Lenses
Alcon Authorised Partner
Contact lenses, fitted rather than sold
Daily, monthly and astigmatism lenses from ACUVUE, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb, CooperVision, Menicon and SEED, fitted at Queensway with the aftercare that should come with them.
Fitting
A contact lens sits on living tissue
Two people with an identical prescription can need entirely different lenses. Corneal curvature, tear film, how many hours you wear them and whether you work under air conditioning all change which lens will still be comfortable at 7pm.
That is why a fitting is a fitting and not an order. We establish the right lens, check how it sits and moves on your eye, and show you how to handle it safely. Then we see you again to confirm it is behaving as it should.
What we fit
Daily, monthly and astigmatism contact lenses
Daily disposable contact lenses
A fresh sterile lens every morning and nothing to clean. The lowest-maintenance and generally the most hygienic option, and the usual starting point for occasional wear.
Monthly contact lenses
More economical for full-time wear, with a care regime that has to be followed properly. We will show you exactly what that involves before you commit.
Contact lenses for astigmatism
Lenses weighted to stay oriented on the eye, for prescriptions an ordinary spherical lens cannot correct. Fit matters more here than in any other soft lens.
Brands stocked
Authorised, traceable, genuine
ACUVUE contact lenses, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb and more
We are an Alcon Authorised Partner. Everything we supply comes through the manufacturer’s own channel, which matters more for a medical device you put on your eye than for almost anything else you buy.
ACUVUE, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb, CooperVision, Menicon and SEED contact lenses, with Opto-Pharm lens care.
Common questions
About contact lenses
Do I need a fitting, or can I just order my prescription?
A spectacle prescription is not a contact lens prescription. Contact lenses require their own measurements, because the lens sits directly on the cornea rather than twelve millimetres in front of it. If you have never been fitted, you need a fitting.
Can I wear contact lenses if I have astigmatism?
Yes. Toric lenses are weighted so they hold their orientation on the eye rather than rotating. Getting the axis and the stability right is the whole job, and it is why these in particular should be fitted properly.
Are daily disposables better than monthlies?
They are lower-maintenance and avoid the risks that come with poor cleaning habits. Monthlies are more economical for daily full-time wear. The right answer depends on how often you actually wear them and how disciplined you are about care.
Can I still get spectacles as well?
You should. No one should be in contact lenses seven days a week with nothing to fall back on when eyes are tired or unwell. Most of our contact lens wearers keep a current pair of spectacles alongside.
Home / Eyewear / Frames
Twenty-seven frame houses
Designer spectacle frames at Queensway
Prada, Gucci, Tom Ford, Saint Laurent, Montblanc, Silhouette, DITA Lancier and more, on a wall you are welcome to spend an hour in front of.
Choosing
A frame is worn on the face every day for three years
Which makes it worth more than four minutes of deciding. Face shape matters less than most guides pretend; what actually matters is bridge fit, temple length, weight distribution and whether the frame is deep enough for the lens you need.
We will hand you things you would not have picked up, tell you honestly when something does not sit right, and say so when the frame you love will not take your prescription.
The roster
Every brand in the spectacle shop
Braun Büffel, Burberry, CHARMANT, Coach, DITA Lancier, Emporio Armani, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Kate Spade, Marc Jacobs, Masaki Matsushima, MCM, Mona Lisa, Montblanc, Nautica, New Balance, Nike, Polaroid, Porsche Design, Prada, Ray-Ban, Saint Laurent, Salvatore Ferragamo, Silhouette, Tom Ford and Under Armour glasses frames.
Also on the wall
Smart glasses
Smart eyewear has moved from novelty to something people genuinely wear, and it still needs a prescription and a proper fit like any other frame. Ask us in store about what is currently available.
Sunglasses and prescription sun →Frames are chosen in person
There is no substitute for putting them on. We are open every day, 10.30am to 9pm, at Queensway Shopping Centre #01-39.
Home / Eyewear / Sunglasses
Ray-Ban, DITA Lancier, Porsche Design and Polaroid
Sunglasses and prescription sunglasses
Singapore sits one degree off the equator. Sunglasses here are not an accessory, and tinting a lens properly is a different job from darkening it.
The point
Dark is not the same as protective
A dark lens without proper ultraviolet filtration is worse than no sunglasses at all, because the tint opens your pupil and lets more unfiltered light through. What matters is the filter, not the shade.
Polarisation is the second consideration. It removes the horizontal glare that comes off wet roads, car bonnets and water, which is why it makes such a difference driving here after a storm.
Options
Three ways to see in the sun
Prescription sunglasses
Your correction, made up in a tinted lens. The proper answer for anyone who drives, and available as single vision or progressive.
Polarised
Glare from road surfaces, water and glass cut out rather than dimmed. Noticeably more comfortable behind a windscreen.
Tinted to order
Colour and density chosen rather than taken off a shelf, which is how you end up with a lens that suits your eyes and not somebody else’s.
Sun brands in store
Every sunglasses brand in store
DITA Lancier builds for land, sea and air. Ray-Ban and Porsche Design need no introduction. Polaroid invented the polarised lens. And every designer frame on our wall can be ordered as a sun lens.
DITA Lancier, Ray-Ban, Porsche Design, Polaroid, Prada, Gucci, Tom Ford and Saint Laurent sunglasses.
See all 27 frame brands →Try them under real light
Queensway Shopping Centre #01-39, open every day from 10.30am to 9pm.
Home / Insights
Eye care, lenses and eyewear
Insights from the chair
What we get asked in store, written down properly. Lenses, myopia, frames and the things nobody explains at the counter.
Eye care and eyewear guides
Personalised eye care from a trusted ZEISS Vision Partner
What authorised partner status actually means for the lens that ends up in your frame, and why the measurement matters more than the brand on the box.
Essilor Stellest lenses at AZ Optics Centre
How myopia control lenses are meant to work, what full-time wear has to do with it, and the questions worth asking before you commit your child to a programme.
Spectacles with premium lenses: what you are actually paying for
The difference between a basic and an advanced progressive is the width of the clear corridor. Here is what that buys you in daily use.
Smart glasses in Singapore: stylish smart eyewear, prescription included
Smart eyewear has stopped being a novelty. It still needs a prescription and a proper fit, and that part has not changed at all.
DITA Lancier in Singapore: a land, sea and air sunglasses guide
Why a sunglass built for flight decks and open water is engineered differently, and how to tell whether you need that or simply want it.
Silhouette eyewear: the case for a rimless frame
Screwless, hingeless and remarkably light. What rimless does well, what it does not, and which prescriptions it will not take.
Would rather just ask someone?
That is what the shop is for. Walk in, or message us.
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Queensway Shopping Centre, #01-39
Visit the optical shop at Queensway
Open seven days a week, 10.30am to 9pm. Walk in, or book the hour so the chair is held for you.
Find us
AZ Optics Centre
- Address
- 1 Queensway, Queensway Shopping Centre #01-39, Singapore 149053
- Telephone
- +65 6474 9169
- +65 8783 7067
- azoptics@gmail.com
- Opening hours
- Monday to Sunday, 10.30am to 9.00pm
- Getting here
- Queensway Shopping Centre, first floor. Parking on site.
Queensway Shopping Centre#01-39, Singapore 149053
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How AZ Optics Centre collects, uses and protects your personal data under Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act.
What we collect
Contact details you give us when booking an appointment or enquiring, and the clinical information recorded during an eye examination. We do not collect payment card details through this website.
Why we hold it
To arrange and confirm your appointment, to dispense and service your spectacles or contact lenses, and to maintain the prescription history that makes a comparison over time possible.
Who sees it
Our own staff, and the laboratory that manufactures your lenses where a prescription must be supplied to fulfil your order. We do not sell personal data.
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You may request access to the personal data we hold about you, ask for a correction, or withdraw consent for marketing contact at any time. Write to azoptics@gmail.com.
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