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