I love an enclosed case back, and that’s what you get here, along with three engraved seahorses to adorn it. You won’t get to take a look at it, though. This means that we get the 80-hour power reserve operating at 21,600 vph Powermatic silicon hair spring movement that’s been increasingly prevalent with Rado, as well as its Swatch Group siblings. Being under the umbrella of the Swatch Group, Rado uses an ETA C07.611 movement, which is a take on the 2824. Where things are thoroughly modern here is with the movement. Hats off to Rado for its execution of the bracelet.
The brushed folding clasp is adorned with - you guessed it - two seahorses. The high polish might be a scratch magnet down the road, but that’s not a consideration that substantively takes anything away from it. It looks, feels, and wears like a bracelet that costs more than the sub-$2,000 price of the Golden Horse. Speaking of which, the polished grains-of-rice bracelet is very well done. I also think the bracelet does a lot for the watch in this regard, as the leather strap on the previous red-dial Golden Horse did make it wear smaller. The Golden Horse is a smaller watch for sure, especially by contemporary standards, but the proportions make it look just right on my 7.5 inch wrist.
At first the company only produced watch movements, but in 1957 the business launched its first line of complete Rado watches, and in 1962, the Rado DiaStar 1 was introduced, the first scratchproof watch made from a specially engineered hardened metal. clockwork factory, which was established in Lengnau Switzerland in 1917.
The 37mm-wide and 10.8mm-thick case would ordinarily be a bit too small for me (though I’ve increasingly been appreciating sub-40mm watches as of late), but the 40.9mm lug-to-lug measurement confirms what I felt as I wore it. The Rado watch company grew out of the Schlup & Co.
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