The second model in the collection is the HyperChrome Captain Cook Ref. The watch comes on a dark brown vintage leather strap. Cook’s, chunky arrow-shaped hands are rhodium-plated and also with vintage-style SLN. The hands, a throwback to the vintage Capt. We can however see a stunning, black sun-brushed dial that has printed vintage-style SuperLumiNova hour-markers along with silver colored printed - Captain Cook, Rado and Automatic logos as well as a large rhodium-plated moving anchor symbol with red background. The caseback is also engraved with the watch's Limited Edition number out of 1962 – a nod to the original’s launch date. Unfortunately also not shown in this series of images is the watch’s three-Seahorse stamped polished Stainless steel screwdown caseback and crown. It doesn’t come across in the images but it is also equipped with a special vintage-style box shaped Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides. It is fitted with: a Stainless steel diver’s bezel with a black ceramic insert displaying a 45 min. Its case is in polished Stainless steel measuring a modest 37.3mm in diameter with a lug-lug measurement of 43.1mm and a thickness of 11.1mm. It’s actually a pretty faithful reproduction – although with just 100m of WR. 763.0500.3.130 – my favorite as it most closely resembles the 60s Capt.
The first model in the collection is the HyperChrome Captain Cook Ref. RADO have released a new collection of divers and divers-style watches that were inspired by their historic 1960s Captain Cook diver.
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