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VIDEO: Game, set, match…point. A closer look at Rado’s HyperChrome Match Point VIDEO: Game, set, match…point. A closer look at Rado’s HyperChrome Match Point

VIDEO: Game, set, match…point. A closer look at Rado’s HyperChrome Match Point

Felix Scholz

Sports tie-in watches play a — if you’ll pardon the pun — dangerous game. On the one hand there’s a lot of gloss (and potential sales) to be earned from the association with an event that’s under the spotlight. The downside, though, is you might end up with a watch that looks more like a souvenir than a fine piece of precision engineering. This Rado HyperChrome Match Point walks this line just fine. To most casual — and even closer — viewers, it’s a regular Rado chronograph, complete with the high-tech ceramic case and bracelet so synonomous with Rado, as well as a particularly handsome brushed blue dial and some nice raised, applied Arabic numerals. But look very closely and you’ll notice the subtlest tennis detail on the dial — that outer track is marked with a scale specifically calibrated for the time between points in ATP and Grand Slam games. Now, if that’s not a detail for the real fans, I don’t know what is.

Rado HyperChrome Match Point Australian pricing and availability

Rado HyperChrome Match Point, limited to 999 pieces, $6475