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Rado puts Cameron Green's cricket story inside a Captain Cook

A 459-piece green-and-gold diver marks Cameron Green's Test milestone with cricket details small enough to reward a second look.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 4 min read · 9 October 2026

• Rado's Captain Cook x Cameron Green Limited Edition marks the cricketer's position as the 459th male Australian Test player and is limited to 459 pieces.
• A green gradient dial carries wicket-like dots, cricket-ball accents and luminous markers inside a 42 mm steel case rated to 300 metres.
• The Australian recommended retail price is A$4,700; Rado lists an online reservation option and includes a bracelet plus two additional straps.

There is a temptation with sporting collaborations to look for the sponsor's logo and move on. This one asks you to look closer: the wicket is reduced to three small dots, the cricket ball to a red tip and a patterned minute track. Those details sit inside an existing 42 mm diver, rather than turning the watch into a piece of match merchandise. Rado announced it on 8 October to mark Cameron Green becoming the 459th male Australian Test cricketer: the Captain Cook x Cameron Green Limited Edition.

A cricket ground in the dial, if you know where to look

The green sunray dial fades towards its edge, giving the colour more depth than a flat team-green surface would have had. At 12 o'clock, three gold-coloured dots stand for the stumps; around the dial, the minute track borrows the pattern of cricket-ball stitching. Rado puts a red field behind its moving anchor and a red tip on the seconds hand. Those are small interventions, which matters because the applied markers and broad hands still have the legibility expected of a Captain Cook.

I am usually wary of a themed watch that needs an explanatory card, but the three dots work even without the cricket story: they break up an otherwise familiar dial without competing with the hands. The gold-coloured markers carry vintage-look Super-LumiNova, while the white Rado and Captain Cook lettering cuts across the green. A date at three o'clock is the one practical interruption to the design. Rado has kept the commemorative elements legible as watchmaking details first, which is the right order for something its owner may wear long after the innings has ended.

Gold accents around a working Captain Cook case

The polished steel case measures 42 mm across and 12.3 mm thick, with a box-shaped sapphire crystal treated against reflections on both faces. Its rotating bezel combines yellow gold-coloured PVD with a polished green ceramic insert, so the brighter metal reads as a frame rather than the entire watch. Rado rates water resistance at 300 metres. That figure leaves the cricket references on a watch that retains the physical specification of a diver, even if most examples will spend more time above water.

Turn the watch over and the collaboration becomes explicit. A screw-down sapphire back carries Green's signature and the edition marking, while allowing a view of the R763 automatic calibre. Rado specifies 25 jewels, an antimagnetic Nivachron hairspring, adjustment in five positions and an 80-hour power reserve. None of those numbers makes the watch a cricket instrument; they make it easier to judge as a watch once the sporting connection has caught your eye. The back also makes the 459-piece limit more tangible than a number in a press release.

One bracelet, two very different spare straps

The supplied rice-grain bracelet has brushed steel outer links and polished, yellow gold-coloured PVD centre links. Rado also includes a green-and-yellow textile NATO-style strap and a black rubber strap, with its EasyClip system designed to let the owner change between them without tools. The textile option pushes the national-colour idea furthest; rubber gives the ceramic bezel and 300-metre rating a more straightforward diving-watch partner. I would start with the bracelet, because its small gold sections answer the dial markers without making the whole watch feel ceremonial.

The three configurations also make the price easier to understand, though they cannot settle the question of taste. Green and gold can become loud quickly, and there is plenty of both here. But Rado has spread the colour across the dial, bezel and removable parts rather than painting every surface the same shade. The result is an Australian sporting edition that can announce its reference to cricket or keep it fairly quiet, depending on which strap is fitted. That flexibility is more persuasive than another oversized player's signature on the front.

The Captain Cook design dates to 1962, according to Rado, and this edition does not try to rewrite it. The bezel, crystal and depth rating remain central, while the partnership lives in the dial and back. That is why the little wicket at 12 o'clock is such a useful test: if you notice it, the watch tells its story; if you do not, it still has to stand up as a green Captain Cook. On balance, I think it does.

Rado Captain Cook x Cameron Green Limited Edition pricing and availability

Rado limits reference R32138318 to 459 pieces and lists it on its Australian storefront with a Reserve Online option. The Australian recommended retail price is A$4,700. The watch comes on the steel rice-grain bracelet with the textile NATO-style and black rubber straps included. Rado has not given a separate Australian delivery date on the product page, so a reservation should not be read as a stated shipping date.