The Company Rado recently celebrated its eightysixth year
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The Company Rado recently celebrated its eightysixth year in the industry and looks back at forty years of watch production and forty years of success with the DiaStar collection. In 1957 the company became known as it is today, Rado. Five short years after the name changed, the groundwork for the company’s success was laid, with the history making oval DiaStar— known by all as the world’s first scratch-proof watch—thus culminating the company’s history and continued success.
In 1983 Rado joined the SMH Group, known today as The Swatch Group and the most prominent watch conglomerate in the world. Today Rado continues to make history in the field of watchmaking, by utilizing the hardest materials in the world, to create technologically advanced as well as innovative timepieces. These technological advances constitute Rado’s success … past, present and future.
The Rebirth of a Legacy Dornblüth & Sohn is a dream come true for father and son he story of D. Dornblüth & Sohn is the story of a family Ttradition forty years old that only came to light in 1999. We begin with the father, Dieter Dornbluth, who in 1959 was a student of horology in Germany learning the trade of watch repair. One evening he was presented with a watch deemed beyond repair. Intrigued the young Dieter sought to reconstruct the timepiece from scratch to successful results. His job done, the watch was soon gone, but the craftsmanship he found in its sturdy, tiny frame had a profound effect on him. In the process of reconstruction he had discovered a connection to the work with a compulsion to build his own original movement. He began to design a delicate manual-wind movement that would be sturdy enough to be sustained within a small case. His abstract plans lead to the actual building of the watch, a process that only got as far as positioning the first wheels in the base plate before life got in the way.
The German Watchmaker’s Guild had appointed Dieter to the title of Master Watchmaker, and as a result of the new prestige, he was offered the opportunity to take over the repair business of a colleague who had just passed away. So off Dieter went to run a successful repair shop, and as the shop thrived and business poured in, the plans for his movement found their way into a drawer and the dream of original creation was lost to the passing of time.
It is here where we jump ahead to 1999, and through Dieter’s son, Dirk, a dream is regained. Dirk, a watchmaker in his father’s image, gave his father a birthday present of an original wristwatch, down to the movement, that Dirk had made himself. It was with this act that the father’s dormant desire returned to bring his own design to fruition. From that night forward, both father and son committed to taking a step beyond repair into a partnership in pursuit of the artistic dream of both. Out of this was born the legacy of the past, the manufacture of D. Dornblüth & Sohn.
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