The Rado Captain Cook High-Tech Ceramic Chronograph

The names are the identical, however the seems are very completely different. A hands-on expertise with the brand new Rado Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph revealed sturdy similarities between the black-and-rose-tone mannequin and its inexperienced sibling fabricated from plasma high-tech ceramic. With a matte black ceramic case adorned with a rose-gold-colored PVD-coated metal turning bezel, the chronograph model of the Captain Cook dinner seems metropolitan. Darkish inexperienced is a brand new colour for the gathering, although, and it offers the scratch-resistant timepiece a extra outdoorsy vibe. Beforehand, a Captain Cook dinner chrono was solely accessible with a metal case and two counters. Now we see the debut of two three-counter fashions with ceramic instances in the very best Rado custom.

Basically, they’re the identical, however they “costume” fully in another way — the brand new Rado Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph debuts in two distinct variations. However the matte black ceramic iteration with a contact of suave pink-gold-colored PVD (ref. R32190153) and the dominantly darkish inexperienced model (ref. R32189313) do have a couple of issues in frequent. That’s the place we are going to begin.

Palms-on with the brand new Rado Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph

Inside each variations of the Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph, Rado put the caliber R801. Based mostly on the ETA A31, this computerized motion is an evolutionary model of the respected ETA 2894. Rado put a Dubois Dépraz chronograph module on prime of the motion to show it right into a chronograph. It beats at a 4Hz frequency, options an antimagnetic Nivachron hairspring, and has an influence reserve of 59 hours when totally wound. The 37-jewel motion measures 28.6 × 6.6mm, and its base capabilities embody hours, minutes, small seconds, and a date indication.

As for the chronograph capabilities, they begin with central elapsed seconds and a 30-minute counter. Earlier Captain Cook dinner chronographs had a two-counter format with a date window within the fashion/form of the indexes at 6 o’clock. These two newcomers, nonetheless, even have a 3rd sub-dial at 6, incorporating the purple date on a white background and the chronograph’s 12-hour counter. Including the latter offers the watch a extra modern look than its reasonably retro two-counter counterparts.

Each iterations present printed white Rado and Captain Cook dinner logos and “300m / 1000ft” wording on the dial. The hour and minute fingers hover above the hour indexes, that are completed with white Tremendous-LumiNova for readability, identical to the fingers. The chronograph fingers for elapsed seconds, minutes, and hours every have a purple tip to simplify identification. Rado’s shifting anchor image at 12 o’clock is a well-known sight. It rotates on an artificial ruby backplate. Across the fringe of the dial is a refined minute monitor, and surrounding that may be a unidirectional 60-minute bezel with engraved and lume-filled markings.

The case of Captain Cook dinner

Though not the identical colour, each new Captain Cook dinner iterations are the identical dimension. The watches have a 43 × 49.8 × 16.2mm high-tech ceramic case with a 300m depth ranking. Extra frequent options are the ceramic bezel insert and three-row bracelet, a screw-down crown and two screw-down chronograph pushers, and a box-type sapphire crystal with an antireflective coating on either side.

The opulent Captain Cook dinner in black and rose

The black and rose-tone Rado Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph affords a high-end look with big-city vibes. The watch has a elegant ceramic bezel insert and polished middle hyperlinks within the bracelet, contrasting with a matte ceramic case and outer bracelet hyperlinks. You open and shut the bracelet with a titanium butterfly clasp. Due to the usage of ceramic, it’s no shock that each watches really feel gentle, “heat,” and even silky mushy. Further mushy and even rich-looking particulars are the rose-gold-colored bezel rim, fingers, indexes, crown, and pushers.

The deep black dial holds the polished rose-tone utilized indexes with white Tremendous-LumiNova, and there’s additionally a elegant rose-gold-colored PVD-coated rotating anchor image on it.

The outdoorsy green-dialed Captain Cook dinner

Spending time in a plasma oven hotter than the Solar precipitated the ceramic of the green-dialed model to indicate a silvery grey metallic hue. This hue matches the metal bezel, crown, pushers, and the rhodium-colored fingers and indexes. Pairing the grey ceramic base with a elegant darkish inexperienced ceramic bezel insert and a deep inexperienced dial created an outdoorsy look. Like its black sibling, the inexperienced chronograph has a titanium case again with a sapphire crystal that allows you to observe the automated motion.

Sporting each variations of the brand new Rado Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph

It’s a bit cliché to state {that a} watch wears greater or smaller than it’s. I’ll nonetheless state this anyway within the case of the 2 new variations of the Rado Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph. The 43 × 49.8 × 16.2mm watches belong within the Dimension L part. But, due to the light-weight ceramic, the watches weigh round 160 easy-to-wear grams, which additionally positively impacts how large they really feel on the wrist. On my 18cm (7.1″) wrist, regardless of the fairly sizable case size, they’re not too large.

One other cliché is that sporting black makes you look slimmer. This additionally applies to watches. A black watch appears smaller than it’s, and the 43mm black Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph certainly wears smaller based mostly on its weight and seems. You could ask, “How a lot smaller? Like a 41 and even 40mm watch?” I don’t dare put a quantity on it, although. Perhaps you need to go and provides it a strive for your self.

In case you are contemplating a visit to the Rado supplier, you also needs to know that the black Captain Cook dinner Excessive-Tech Ceramic Chronograph ref. R32190153 prices €6,500 / CHF 5,700 / £5,500 / US$6,250, and the inexperienced ref. R32189313 goes for €6,450 / CHF 5,600 / £5,450 / US$6,200. Tell us what you make of those two ceramic chronographs from Rado within the feedback beneath.

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