OceanicTime RADO Captain Cook High-Tech Ceramic DIVER in PLASMA [the urban gents]

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RADO reaffirms itself as the high-tech Swiss watchmaker to watch out for in 2022 with a breathtaking six model strong collection; each with its own killer style that is guaranteed to rouse you from a world of drudgery and into one of excitement.
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Introducing the new Captain Cook High-Tech Ceramic Diver in a state-of-the-art plasma finish fit for the urban gentry! Its 43mm in diameter case has been executed in a matt plasma high-tech ceramic with a monobloc construction. Water-resistance is 300 meters.
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The case is topped with a polished hardened Stainless steel rotational diver’s bezel with a circular-brushed plasma high-tech ceramic inlay and engraved white lacquered dive-time scale in white Super-LumiNova.
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Further diver’s features include: a circular, brushed, titanium case-back with 2x stamped seahorses (recalling the 60s models) and engraved:
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‘DIVER’S WATCH 300M’, a polished hardened stainless steel screw-down crown as well as a box-shaped Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides. All watches in the collection come with ISO 6425 certification, a first for Rado.
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Meanwhile a choice of either Sunray grey or blue, lacquered and polished dial with applied indexes with white Super-LumiNova featuring Rado’s iconic moving anchor symbol in rhodium (with synthetic ruby back-plate) to match the handset. Talking of the handset, that hour hand looks as if it’s been fully weaponized!
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Powering the new Captain Cook High-Tech Ceramic Diver collection is the Rado caliber R763, automatic mechanical movement with 25 jewels, 3 hands, red printed date at 3 o’clock, 80hrs of power-reserve, antimagnetic Nivachron™ hairspring. This has been adjusted to 5 positions for a higher degree of accuracy.
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The watches come on a plasma, high-tech ceramic bracelet with polished center links and matt outer links plus a Titanium 3-fold clasp with Ceramos TM openers. MSRP is 3,300USD (bracelet) / 3,000USD (rubber).
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Thoughts? While the Rado brand isn’t quite as aspirational as some of its Swatch stablemates who names have a whole lot more cache; it is fast (re)establishing itself as the master of modernism and all things ceramic.
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These watches likely won’t have the same type of lasting appeal as their classic Capt. Cook shipmates but damn in this moment they are pretty damn desirable.
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