Recently, luxury Swiss watch brand Rado unveiled their new range for 2022, featuring some new products along with some familiar icons with new fresh looks.
One such watch is the Captain Cook Over-Pole Limited Edition, an iconic model from the Sixties that has now been equipped with a high-quality Swiss hand-wound mechanical movement with 80 hours of power reserve. Characteristic design aspects from the original “Over-Pole Worldtimer” have been modernized, with a high-tech ceramic insert added to the bezel, laser engraving and a box-shaped sapphire crystal, while true vintage essentials have been kept, such as the iconic 37mm diameter and overall style
Staying with an adventurous spirit, the Captain Cook High-Tech Ceramic Diver is equipped with the latest technology, including 80 hours of power reserve and water resistance to strict ISO 6425 specifications. In this skillfully crafted timepiece with famous Swiss reliability, a Rado R763 movement is set inside a stunning high-tech ceramic monobloc case that is at once scratch- resistant, hypo-allergenic and practically invulnerable, ready to match any challenge, in wilderness or everyday life.
For 2022, Rado has taken a fresh look at its Florence collection, named after the Italian city at the heart of the Renaissance. Like Renaissance artists themselves, the new Florence Classic collection takes inspiration from the enduring beauty of classical Greek and Roman art and architecture. This re-interpretation of the popular Rado line presents a number of finely finished new design elements, immediately evident in the elegant pair featuring a black lacquered dial held in a polished stainless steel case and bezel beneath a curved sapphire crystal with newly developed bevelled and metallised black edges. Rhodium-plated hands glide above four full-cut diamonds set as indexes at hours 3, 6, 9 and 12. Their sparkling presence is underscored and celebrated in the new Florence Classic collection by the return, of the famous Jubilé logo.
Rado’s partnership with Grandi Giardini Italiani, begun in 2017, brought their shared interests neatly together, and provided an excellent opportunity to extend Rado’s True Thinline product into the True Thinline Nature collection. Showcasing Rado’s mastery of materials, the new line highlighted their superb skill in high-tech ceramics in a variety of shades and colours, to celebrate the Earth and Nature. The collection was extended in 2021, with three models aptly-named Rado True x Great Gardens of the World, which joined the supreme technical execution of the early series, with breathtaking new design accents – oak leaves, jasmine flowers, mother-of-pearl and gorgeous high-tech ceramic case colours.
The latest in this series arrive under the evocative name “The Four Seasons”. The four new models restate Rado’s expertise in coloured high-tech ceramics, alongside innovative sapphire-crystal production technics. Each of the four models wears a different colour, from subtle to vivid, next to a unique, facetted watch glass to match the season. True to the eternal cycles of nature, the new models keep precise and reliable time, thanks to a Rado R420 quartz movement, with a two-hand display and 13 jewels.
