Who loves Rado?
 

Vintage Rado that is.

Not too keen on the latest offerings, but this is one brand I like for its simple no nonsense styling.

This one is quite old. I'm not sure I like or don't like it with the brown strap instead of my original stainless steel bracelet. Stainless steel bracelets do something awful to watches!

Any one else like this Swiss manufacturer before their bling era?

Yes, I love Rado too and have Rado Purple Horse vintage model (70s) but plan to buy one more Rado - Sintra Chrono :)

Wow. Your avatar looks very similar to mine!

The Sintra Chrono is beautiful :)
I like the idea of a scratchproof Ceramica though:

http://www.redfingerprint.com/image/...715152_big.jpg

This one is becoming a modern classic, although I'm not a huge rectangular/square watch fan yet.

I like the older Diastar range. I can't tell which kind of horse mine is - maybe silver horse, since the seahorses are in silver.

I remember being confused by the Purple; Green; Silver; Gold seahorses, and just settled for the most neutral colour! What do the colours all mean?

This one is very good :)
http://www.rado.com/files/BXMediaPlu...nt1847file.png

About horses - unfortunately, I don't know Rado's history very well. Let's try to ask experts, I've just created question in Rado topic: http://forum.watch.ru/showthread.php?t=57065

Yeah - that one is gorgeous! The tapered wristband is very nice, yet somehow, the three circular sub-dials seem to fit in very beautifully.

I'm not very good at the history of the Rado Seahorse watches - neither are Rado, because they never kept any archive or museum. So most of the information is pulled from the internet.

Here's one of the better identification resources if you have a question about which Rado you are looking at:

http://mike184.beepworld.de/radomodellemodels.htm


As far as I can recall, the 'horse' symbolises 'fortune' or luck - Rado, being a Swiss manufacturer, found a significant market in the Far East. And they were correct; today, something like $2.6billion is spent in Hong Kong alone, compared to $3.1billion in the USA - and look at the size of Hong Kong vs USA!!

Around 1956, the Green Horse was introduced. Then the Purple Horse, and the crowning edition - the Golden Horse. Re-editions were introduced; so there is a Green Horse series from 1980-1982 as well. Rado, produced these in batches of limited editions of 2000 or so watches over the years; consequently, it is very hard to find two exactly identical ones, and many minor changes in a Green Horse can exist.

The Green and Purples are generally cheaper than the Silver, Golden or Black Horse watches, unless they have been faked, copied or re-created using non-Rado parts.

There seem to be so many variations of this superb watch! Condition is everything though :)

Yes, Rado is exciting but information about it is not enough, only a couple of sites on Internet.
Also, we have one more color collection in "gazzele" series :)

Are you on the Equation of Time forum?

That is the only Rado internet forum I know of. The guys there seem very knowledgeable.

Or at least that is what they would like us to believe lol.

Good article was publicated on www.watchcarefully.com but for now it's unavailable for long time and only method to read it - use Google Cache:

First part:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&hl=ru&ct=clnk

Second part now is unavailable in Google too...

That's a great article - it's doesn't require a university degree to trawl through either!

Shame the second part is missing :(

And I love Rado )