{"id":1695,"date":"2026-10-22T21:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orelo.watch\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T21:06:40","slug":"rado-lleva-a-design-house-2026-sus-colaboraciones-con-disenadores-y-cinco-novedades-del-semestre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orelo.watch\/en\/rado-lleva-a-design-house-2026-sus-colaboraciones-con-disenadores-y-cinco-novedades-del-semestre\/","title":{"rendered":"Rado brings its designer collaborations and five new watches to Design House 2026 in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the fourth year running, Rado sponsored the house that Design Week Mexico opens to architecture and interior studios, exhibiting twelve watches and unveiling its second-half releases.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rado traces its origins to 1917, and much of its identity has been built on materials. In 1962 it introduced the DiaStar which, according to the brand, was the first watch with a sapphire crystal made on a large scale, and which had a highly scratch-resistant hardmetal case. In 1986, with the Integral, it brought high-tech ceramic to one of its collections for the first time, and it has since developed the material in a range of colours and finishes. The brand also has a long relationship with design: the brand has collaborated with more than thirty artists and designers from different countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rado brought both sides of its work to Mexico City as a sponsor of Design House, and ORELO attended the press presentation on Friday, 16 October, at the brand's invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The house on Paseo de las Palmas<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Design House is the exhibition in which Design Week Mexico invites architecture and interior design studios to rework the rooms of a single house. This year's venue is a 1970s residence designed by Fernando Jackson at Paseo de las Palmas 1305, in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood, and it stays open to the public until 1 November. Each studio transforms part of the house with furniture, finishes, lighting and art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A corridor by Mateos Herrera<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For its space, Rado collaborated with Mateos Herrera, an architectural design studio that took light\u2014and its relationship with the passage of time\u2014as its starting point. The studio selected a narrow corridor within the house and installed eight steel-and-marble display units, showcasing twelve timepieces along the path. On the ceiling, a lighting installation recreates the anchor\u2014the symbol Rado features on its watch dials\u2014as well as the brand\u2019s mottos, such as \"Master of Materials\" and \"Feel It.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le Corbusier and guest designers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The watches on display included the True Round x Les Couleurs Le Corbusier collection, three special editions inspired by architectural works of Le Corbusier. Rado has a long-standing collaboration with Les Couleurs Suisse, the company that officially represents the Polychromie Architecturale, the colour palette the architect defined for his buildings. The selection also included models from the Anatom, Integral, DiaStar Skeleton, Centrix and True Square families, as well as pieces created with designers Tej Chauhan and Kunihiko Morinaga. The pieces share careful design and a range of materials, and high-tech ceramic appears in almost all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The five new releases<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The house also hosted the presentation of Rado's releases for the second half of 2026. The Captain Cook Discover keeps the case shape of the sporty Captain Cook line, now with a fixed bezel, and is made of high-tech ceramic, as is the three-link bracelet. It comes in five versions: three with a black case and a gradient dial in green, blue or red, and two Wave models with a black dial engraved with a wave pattern, in a black or white case. Its automatic calibre uses a hairspring in Nivachron, an antimagnetic alloy also found in the other two mechanical releases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1986 Integral was Rado's first collection in high-tech ceramic, and the edition marking its fortieth anniversary is limited to 1,986 pieces in reference to that year. The bracelet combines polished black ceramic centre links with yellow gold-coloured steel links, and the vertically brushed dial, in the same gold tone, carries five baguette-cut diamonds treated in black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The True Square Thinline is the slimmest high-tech ceramic watch Rado has made, with a 5.0 mm profile helped by a very flat quartz calibre. The case and bracelet are in plasma ceramic, a process in which the brand enriches finished white ceramic parts with carbon to give them a metallic finish; here it is polished, with a warm tone that suits the champagne sunray dial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The DiaStar Original revisits the 1962 design, and its two new Skeleton versions, in autumn-inspired tones, pair an annular dial with a matching rubber strap: black for the version with a yellow gold-coloured bezel and brown for the one that introduces a rose gold-coloured bezel. The bezel is made of Ceramos, a Rado composite that combines the hardness of a ceramic of around 90 % titanium carbide with the lustre of a metal alloy. The R808 calibre is skeletonised so the mechanism can be seen from the dial side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Anatom Skeleton, with the Anatom's curved rectangular case that follows the shape of the wrist, was presented in two colours: one in anthracite tones and one in yellow gold. On the yellow version, the bracelet alternates polished black ceramic links with yellow gold-coloured steel links, and the sapphire crystal, which covers the case from edge to edge, has edges metallised in the same tone and reveals the skeletonised R808 calibre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prices and retail network in Mexico<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Rado has a broad retail network in Mexico, with its watches sold at department stores such as El Palacio de Hierro and Liverpool and at a large number of jewellers and watch shops across the country. The brand lists recommended retail prices with VAT included on its Mexican and Spanish websites, detailed in the specifications below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forty years of ceramic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The five new watches put high-tech ceramic, the material Rado adopted forty years ago, to very different uses. The Captain Cook Discover uses it for the case and bracelet of a sports watch water resistant to 150 metres, which makes it more resistant to everyday scratches than a steel watch. On the True Square Thinline, plasma ceramic gives a 5.0 mm case a metallic finish without adding any metal. The Integral Limited Edition returns to the model where that story began, while the DiaStar Original Skeleton and the Anatom Skeleton pair the material, in the Ceramos bezel of the first and the bracelet of the second, with a skeletonised automatic calibre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By presenting these watches in the same exhibition as the Le Corbusier collection and the pieces created with Tej Chauhan and Kunihiko Morinaga, Rado brought together in a single walk-through the two traits on which it has built its identity: the materials it develops and its work with designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Specifications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Rado Captain Cook Discover<\/strong>
Black or white high-tech ceramic case, 40.7 x 12.3 mm, fixed ceramic bezel, domed sapphire crystal, sapphire caseback, screw-down crown, water resistant to 150 m. Automatic calibre R763, 80-hour power reserve, Nivachron hairspring. Three-link ceramic bracelet with titanium folding clasp. References R32279312 (green), R32279322 (blue), R32279332 (red), R32278162 (Wave, white case) and R32279162 (Wave, black case).
Price: USD 4,250; MXN 86,300 and EUR 4,100 for the blue version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rado Integral Limited Edition (R20254702)<\/strong>
PVD-coated steel case, 28.0 mm wide and 7.3 mm thick, domed sapphire crystal metallised from edge to edge. Vertically brushed gold-coloured dial with five black baguette diamonds. Quartz calibre R279. Polished black ceramic and yellow gold-coloured steel bracelet, folding clasp. Limited to 1,986 pieces.
Price: USD 3,850; MXN 78,500 and EUR 3,750.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rado True Square Thinline (R27119402)<\/strong>
Polished plasma ceramic case, 37.0 x 5.0 mm, titanium caseback, flat sapphire crystal. Champagne sunray dial. Quartz calibre R420, 1.53 mm thick. Plasma ceramic bracelet with titanium folding clasp.
Price: USD 2,200; MXN 44,500 and EUR 2,150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rado DiaStar Original Skeleton (R12166159 and R12159309)<\/strong>
PVD-coated steel case, 38.0 x 11.9 mm, radially brushed Ceramos bezel in yellow gold or rose gold colour, faceted sapphire crystal. Black or brown annular dial. Automatic skeletonised calibre R808, 80-hour power reserve, Nivachron hairspring. Black or brown rubber strap with EasyClip quick-release system.
Price: USD 2,700 and MXN 54,900 for both versions; EUR 2,650 for the yellow gold-coloured version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rado Anatom Skeleton (R10209252, yellow gold-coloured version)<\/strong>
Dark PVD-coated steel case, 32.5 mm wide and 11.5 mm thick, ceramic crown, one-piece cylindrical sapphire crystal with yellow gold-coloured metallised edges, sapphire caseback. Automatic skeletonised calibre R808, 80-hour power reserve, Nivachron hairspring. Bracelet of polished black ceramic links joined by yellow gold-coloured PVD steel links, folding clasp.
Price: USD 5,800; MXN 117,700 and EUR 5,600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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