Feel the ceramic diving watch, might as well start from it

Posted by lifata on January 11th, 2023

Ceramics are favored by more and more famous watches because of their advantages such as scratch resistance and corrosion resistance. Especially in the field of diving watches, ceramic scale rings have almost replaced aluminum rings and become one of the standard configurations of advanced diving watches. However, the application of ceramics by most brands is limited to the scale ring, and there are not many diving watches whose case and strap are made of ceramics, and Captain Rado Cook’s high-tech ceramic diving watch is one of them.

Rado fake is the Swiss watch brand that most widely uses ceramic watches. It launched the first ceramic watch DiaStar 1 as early as the last century. In the era when clocks and watches were generally only made of metal, the case made of ceramics was undoubtedly a new thing, which attracted people's attention for a while. After the great success of DiaStar 1, the brand promoted the ceramic material to several series. Since then, the Rado watch has been deeply bound with the word "ceramic" and has become a characteristic of the brand.

Looking at the many products of Rado, it is not difficult to find that most of the previous models are classic styles, that is, they tend to look like formal watches. In the context of today's hot sports fake watches cheap, the brand also needs a distinctive diving watch. For this reason, in 2017, Rado launched a new series called "Captain Cook", which is based on a diving watch in 1962, showing many design features of watches in the 1960s, full of retro feeling.

The first batch of Captain Cook diving watches were stainless steel cases. It was not until 2021 that the brand brought the proud high-tech ceramics into the Captain Cook series. The main raw material of the "high-tech ceramics" declared by Rado is high-purity zirconia powder. This technology first adds corresponding color pigments to zirconium powder, then mixes it with a polymer binder to make injection molding raw materials, and finally injects the raw materials into the grinding tool for firing in a 1000bar high-pressure environment. The ceramics produced by this process have better luster, high density and high hardness, and are also used in other high-tech manufacturing fields.

The 2021 Captain Cook series of high-tech ceramic sell replica watches is characterized by a hollowed-out dial, and part of the movement structure can be observed. However, this design also puts forward high requirements for the movement: on the one hand, hollowing out can show the beauty of the structure of the movement and increase the charm of the mechanical watch; on the other hand, if it is not carefully polished, it is easy to become a deduction item. For this reason, the brand uses a "semi-transparent" hollow effect, which not only vaguely presents the beauty of the movement, but also avoids some details, which is an excellent solution.

The 2022 Captain Cook high-tech ceramic diving dial cancels the hollow design and returns to the matte sun texture. In the selection of case color, the new product makes full use of the characteristics of high-tech ceramics, and has launched several low-saturation colors such as jungle green, deep sea blue, obsidian black, and lava gray, which are calm and low-key.

The biggest difference between the new product and the previous one is the function. In order to better show the structure of the movement, the 2021 model removes the date display panel. The 2022 model is equipped with a Rado R763 self-winding movement with a built-in Nivachron™ hairspring and a date display function. Like the 80-hour dynamic storage movement of all brands under the Swatch Group, this model is an upgraded version of the ETA 2824. In order to achieve long power, the vibration frequency is adjusted to 21600 times per hour.