An unplanned purchase..... Rado content

I was in Bluewater on Saturday with The Good Lady and, as is the norm, I had a bit of a browse in some of the jewellers while she did the make-up/handbag/shoe thing. Now I don’t normally look at Rado, I associate them with the all black ceramic parallel bracelet Ceramica models which really don’t appeal to me, but walking past the display in Ernest Jones one particular model caught my eye.

A couple of weeks ago or so I learnt of Rado’s tungsten-carbide “hard metal” cases, and thinking that this watch was made of such material I asked the sales assistant if I could have a gander. The watch itself aesthetically looked OK in the display, but no more than that.

“Why don’t you try it on?” said the assistant.

“Thank you, I think I will” I replied.

Can you tell how this going to end up?

Now if there is one thing that I’ve learnt about watches it’s that what can look fantastic in a perfectly lit display can look very ordinary on the wrist, and that the very ordinary can look sublime when being worn. This one fell into the latter for me and in a big way at that, and after handing it back to the assistant and giving it an hour’s thought I decided that it had to be done, so I did.

And so here it is, the ceramic Rado D-Star, which I now happen to think looks rather splendid off the wrist as well.
























Now with photos the right way up, and edited to appease mr NeMiSiS!

I know that Rado don't get much time on here, but I've seriously fallen for this one. It'll be a perfect foil to my normal daily wearer, my Sinn UX GSG, and along with my Longines LLD and GW3000 G-Shock I'm slowly coming around to the idea of stripping back the rest of my collection....

Cheers, not too sure if I get the weather ref though.

The GF has always said that I'm impervious to hints, and I'm feeling especially slow today