Rado Watches

Rado is a watch manufacturing company of Switzerland. It is well known for its use of scratch-proof materials in their watches. It was established in 1917 under the name Schlup & Co. and initially was concerned with making only watch movements. It was not until 1957 that the company launched their own collection and branded them as Rado. They released the world’s first scratch-proof watch in 1962 called the Rado Diastar. Rado joined SMH group in 1983; SMH was later renamed to Swatch Group in 1998. The unique feature of Rado watches is that they have attractive designs and different materials are used to make the watch like ceramics, sapphire crystal, lanthanum, tungsten-carbide and titanium-carbide. The price of the Rado watches depend on the age, materials used and the model and typically ranges from ₤250 to ₤18000. Rado is one of the biggest brands that are being forged in the market today because of its brand value. Owing to the range and style they are the primary target in forgery and many fake Rado watches are put on sale even on the internet. To fight forgery and to maintain its reputation Rado has few retailers who sell their brand and it also does not practice selling their watches over the internet.

Some of the vintage watches are:

56-H(Chronometer)

990

990 De Luxe

999

Aedes

Alarm

Ales

Alpineum

Amber Horse 74

Arosa

Balboa

Balboa V

Balboa V Breithorn

Balboa V Debut

Balboa V DeLuxe

Balboa V Eiger

Balboa V Fancy

Berard 700

Black Colt

Black Pearl

Blue Castle

Blue Tiger V

Brienzer

Brown Stag

Brown Tiger V

Cape Horn

Cape Horn 280

Cape Horn 300

Captain Cook

Cologny

Cologny 701

Companion

Companion III

Conway

Conway 10

Conway 20

Conway 30

Conway 40

Conway 50

Conway 73

Conway GT

Cornell

Cosmo Travel V202

Daymaster

Daymaster 999(day/date)

Daymaster Starlight

De Luxe

Day-Night

DiaMaster

DiaStar

DiaStar 515

DiaStar Jubile

DiaStar Magic

Distinction Monorex

Ebnat

Eiger

Elegance