Vintage Rado Chronograph

[JPinOman]

I stumbled across this today, a reference 14000, first example I have seen with a black dial




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[watch carefully]

I just looked thru my stash of saved photos of 14000s and have non in black.
I wonder if they were made in smaller numbers, or if the dials didn't age well enough for many to have survived.

[JPinOman]

It is difficult to be sure from the sellers photographs how badly the dial has deteriorated as the acrylic crystal is also in poor condition. Flash photography/poor lighting also contributes. Whilst the black surface looks to be fading or lightly blistering in places, the gold details look to have not suffered at all.


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