Vintage rado chronograph with anchor1/3/2023 ![]() ![]() I suspect that the date window is a love or hate feature, but I can appreciate the effort Rado has taken to stay true to its roots. The choice of the day-date colors – black for day and white for date – while not particularly good looking to me, are true to the original. The hands and applied markers are polished steel and filled with Super-LumiNova. The design of the dial is faithful to the predecessor and gives the Rado HyperChrome 1616 away as a vintage inspired piece, especially with the vertical day-date window. The vibrant blue color will be familiar to watch collectors with a proclivity for blue divers but somehow manages to enhance the retro look of this watch. The highlight of this particular watch, compared to other Rado HyperChromo 1616 offerings, is the blue sunburst dial. ![]() I’ve been unable to ascertain if the two seahorses have any significance to the brand or the model but they’re an interesting choice indeed. ![]() And if you haven’t already guessed, the watch is rated to 100m of water resistance. The flat screw down case back is brushed with a pair of seahorses engraved and the expected complement of words – “Hardened Titanium,” “Limited Edition,” serial number, and so on. The crown itself is large, ergonomic, and engraved with the Rado anchor. The design and finish of the crown guards result in a certain simplicity that complements the case well. The case also has crown guards, which were not present in the predecessor but are useful given the size of the watch. So, in addition to being harder and more damage-resistant than a steel case, the use of titanium means that despite a 46mm x 45.5mm x 13.7mm case, the watch only weighs 106 grams with the strap. To put this into context, standard stainless steel has a hardness of about 200 – 250 Vickers. The case is machined from hardened titanium, which has a hardness of up to 1,000 Vickers (Vickers is a unit of measurement for the hardness of materials). ![]()
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