Rado watches

Rado traces its origins to 1917, when the brothers Fritz, Ernst and Werner Schlup founded Schlup & Co. in Lengnau, Switzerland, initially making watch movements. The company later sold watches under its own Rado name; the brand's history dates the launch to 1957 with the Green Horse. Rado is headquartered in Lengnau and belongs to the Swatch Group.

In 1962 Rado introduced the DiaStar, with a hardmetal case and sapphire crystal, which it marketed as the first scratchproof watch, and the Captain Cook, its first diving watch. The Integral of 1986 used scratch-resistant high-tech ceramic. Later materials include Ceramos, a ceramic-metal composite first used in the Sintra, and the high-tech diamond of the V10K of 2002. The True Thinline of the same year measured 4.9 mm thick.