Rado is a luxury

Swiss watch Swiss made is a label or marking used to indicate that a product was made on the territory of Switzerland. It is also a geographical indication protected under different Swiss and international laws and treaties. According to the Swiss Federal ...

brand owned by the

Swatch Group The Swatch Group Ltd is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewellery. The company was founded in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, moving to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve the quartz crisis threatening the tradition ...

. It was founded in 1917 under the name Schlup & Co. by brothers Fritz, Ernst and Werner Schlup in their parents' home in Lengnau, Bern,

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. The "Rado" watch brand was launched in 1957 with the introduction of Rado Green Horse. "Rado" means "wheel" in

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

. The Rado Captain Cook dive watch debuted in 1962 and is named after

Captain James Cook Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans, conducted between 1768 and 1779. He complet ...

, the 18th-century British explorer and cartographer.

Gallery

RADO Captain Cook Redition .jpg, Rado Captain Cook Rado Diastar Ceramica.jpg, Rado DiaStar Ceramica RADO watch picture from Numan.jpg, Rado DiaStar RADO 231 BG.jpg, Rado 231 BG Rado Captain Cook MK1.jpg, Rado Captain Cook MK1 RadoSilverStar.jpg, Rado SilverStar

References

{{reflist 1917 establishments Swiss watch brands The Swatch Group