Rado’s 2017 novelty, HyperChrome Captain Cook Limited Edition was a mega hit with watch fans and collectors with strong preference for heritage aesthetics. Rado’s new luxury watch basically takes their beloved vintage diver re-issue and updates the Tradition Captain Cook MKIII Automatic with modern proportions, distinctive elements and the design codes of a new decade.

New Luxury Watch – Rado Captain Cook Mk. III Automatic

While the Captain Cook Limited Edition bares all the design codes of that 60s spurt of purpose built divers, the tonneau shaped Rado Captain Cook Mk. III Automatic is reminiscent of 1970s swagger. Inspired by the 1962 Captain Cook Diver, Rado’s new MKIII diver is equipped with a lightweight matte titanium and on the dial front, has highly distinctive bright yellow accents on crucial elements like hands, indexes and the first quadrant of the inner rotating bezel for legibility.

The convex inner rotating bezel contrasted with the boxed sapphire adds tremendous depth to the new Rado Captain Cook MKIII Automatic while the 46.8mm x 48.3mm sandblasted hardened grade 5 titanium lends an air of modernity despite its 70s retro-appeal.

Water resistant to 220 meter, the Tradition Captain Cook MKIII Automatic is powered by an automatic ETA caliber C07.621 with 80 hours power reserve and covered with a titanium caseback with 3 stamped seahorses, a motif from Rado’s vintage diver’s watches.

The masculine style of the Rado Captain Cook MKIII is true to the original and while bearing the readability and wearability of a twenty-first century timepiece, thanks to its luminous applied indexes and rhodium coloured hands with white Super-LumiNova which makes for enhanced legibility in any situation, above and below the waves. A true modern classic.

Tradition Captain Cook MKIII Price and Specs

Movement Automatic ETA C07.621 with 80 hours power reserve
Case 46.8mm Sandblasted grade 5 titanium with 220 metres water resistance
Strap Black textile with grey stitching
Price SG$3,540