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It’s fair to say that since its reintroduction in 2017, Rado’s vintage dive watch reissue, the Captain Cook, has been a runaway success.
The design, which turns 60 next year, authentically hit all of the touchpoints popular with fans of the vintage watch aesthetic without having alter its original design and has since been realised with stainless steel and bronze models in a choice of 37mm and 42mm cases and a number of colorways as well as the Captain Cook MkIII.
Now comes the turn of ceramic, the material people most associate with Rado, to create four new references with a new 43mm case and two finishes, a regular matt finish High-Tech Ceramic and plasma-treated ceramic, which is visually indistinguishable from polished metal. Each watch features a hardened stainless steel rotating bezel with a ceramic ring insert, features a transparent dial revealing the automatic Rado Calibre R734 movement inside and offers 300m water resistance.
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Award-winning British designer Tej Chauhan has brought his own brand of ‘emotive industrial design’ to Rado, resulting in an eye-catching ceramic watch that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey.
With a brief to explore the ‘near future’, the Rado True Square x Tej Chauhan presents a bright yellow solid ceramic case, created using an injection moulding process, with a matt finish which is uncommon for Rado, designed to highlight the nature of the material.
The watch is then secured on a stitched, padded leather strap to add a contrasting tactile sensation for the wearer. The case is sealed with a dark grey PVD-coated and engraved stainless steel and sapphire crystal caseback.