Welcome back to This Week in Time. Your time matters to us, and we’re committed to keeping this space sharp, thoughtful, and easy to read. Below, you’ll find a quick, curated summary of everything we’ve published this week—your ready-made guide to the conversations, releases, and reviews shaping the watch world right now… and a little more. From the Press Desk For the latest and most up … Continue reading This Week in Time (June 20th-26th)
There’s always a sense of excitement when a watch shows up at your door, but there’s a different level of excitement when you get a hands-on experience with a watch you’ve admired from afar for years. Opening the Rado branded leather case and seeing the silver-toned beauty of the DiaStar Original 60-Year Anniversary Edition, it was so cool to see a watch that looked so modern yet held on to what has proven a truly timeless design. Continue reading Rado DiaStar Original 60th Anniversary Edition
The beginning of the 20th century saw the boom of Swiss watchmaking and the origins of what we know as Rado watches. Three brothers, Friedrich, Ernest and Werner Schlup, would begin paving the way for Rado in 1917 by founding their first company, Schlup & Co. Located in their home village of Lengnau, halfway between the watchmaking centres Biel/Bienne and Grenchen, their first workshop was in their parent’s home and primarily manufactured hand-winding anchor movements. Continue reading Other Watchy Bits: A Brief History of Rado
