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Rado's two-tone Captain Cook cricket edition keeps the sport to one red dot

Rado's Captain Cook X European Cricket Special Edition lands at A$4,700 with a blue ceramic bezel, the 80-hour R763 and three straps, and the sport gets one red roundel at six.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 12 August 2026

The only nod to cricket on Rado's newest Captain Cook is a red roundel at six o'clock, about three millimetres across, with a small gold cricket motif inside it.

That is a mercy. Sport tie-ins usually turn up in full livery, a logo where a subdial should be, a caseback engraving you'll be explaining to strangers for years. Rado has built a two-tone diver, put a badge on it and stopped there.

Reference R32138208 at A$4,700

The Captain Cook X European Cricket Special Edition is up on Rado's Australian store at A$4,700, reference R32138208. Captain Cook automatics on that same page open at A$4,100 and the bronze ones climb to A$5,100, so this one sits near the top of the family without being the dearest thing in it.

The case runs 42.0mm across and 12.3mm thick, and the watch weighs 168.3 grams on the bracelet. It's steel, with the centre links, bezel ring, crown and case flanks all in a gold colour, and the bezel insert is Rado's blue high-tech ceramic with its markings picked out in gold. That ceramic is the bit people actually come to Rado for.

A dial that darkens towards the rim

Blue, graded lighter in the centre and deeper at the edge, with gold-toned applied markers and hands filled with Super-LumiNova. Three small gold dots sit below the twelve. The seconds hand is tipped red and the date window at three carries a red surround.

Two-tone is back in fashion and this makes a fair case for it, because the gold is doing work. It rings the rehaut, marks the bezel, then reappears in the hands, so the eye keeps tracing the same circle.

The R763 inside, three straps on EasyClip

Calibre R763 does the running: automatic, 80-hour power reserve, antimagnetic Nivachron hairspring. Eighty hours means a weekend off the wrist costs you nothing. Plenty of movements manage that now, and it's still the spec you notice most, day to day. Over the top sits a chevé box-shaped sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment.

Three straps come with it, swapped over on Rado's tool-free EasyClip system. The two-tone bracelet is the obvious one. There's also a dark strap and a blue and gold one, which is the difference between a watch that never leaves the bracelet and one you'd take to the beach without thinking twice.

European club cricket, from a very long way away

European club cricket is a long way from a Sheffield Shield crowd, and almost nobody buying this here will have watched a minute of it. Which barely matters, because the watch doesn't ask you to care. Nothing on it hangs on naming an ECN side.

Take the tie-in out of it and what's left is a two-tone Captain Cook on a ceramic bezel with three straps in the box, which is the watch most buyers were after anyway. The badge is small, red and easy to forget about.