The final model in the Rado 2019 Designer Series is a collaboration with Japanese food artist Ayako Suwa. The True Thinline Toge, crafted from polished black high-tech ceramic, joins the True Thinline collection.
Beautiful thorn-shaped dial and hands that express your desires
Quartz movement. High-tech ceramic case (39mm diameter). Water resistant to 30m. 210,000 yen (excluding tax)
A gold needle scanned from a needle growing on the skin of a pufferfish.
The True Thinline Toge is crafted from polished black high-tech ceramic and is limited to 1001 pieces worldwide. The black case back is also engraved with the name "TOGE" in Ayako Suwa's own handwriting.
The dial with its three-dimensional thorny texture represents human desire.
Food artist Ayako Suwa believes that even though food may be poisonous or thorny, it still possesses a powerful beauty and deliciousness that makes people instinctively reach for it. Combining her passion for Japanese food culture and the designs born from nature, she adopted the concept of pufferfish thorns for the True Thinline. By incorporating the thorn design into the watch's dial and hands, she hoped to enhance the inner beauty of the wearer. The watch was named True Thinline Toge. The gold hands, scanned from the actual thorns growing on pufferfish skin, and the dial, featuring a three-dimensional thorny texture, evoke the deadly poison of pufferfish and the human desire to still savor it.
Artist and food creation director
Born in Ishikawa Prefecture. After graduating from Kanazawa College of Art, he launched his food creation project in 2006, where he currently serves as its director. In 2008, he held his first solo exhibition, "Design of Appetite: Tasting Emotions with the Senses," at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. He has presented the performance "Guerrilla Restaurant," the dinner experience "Journey on the Table," and food installations both in Japan and overseas, including Tokyo, Fukuoka, Singapore, Paris, Hong Kong, Taipei, Berlin, and Barcelona. 2014-15: Held the 10th anniversary exhibition "Taste of Curiosity, Museum of Curiosity" at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in collaboration with the University Museum, The University of Tokyo. 2019: Release of the film "Diner" (directed by Mika Ninagawa). He was responsible for the creative direction of all dishes featured in the film and the production of the food installations. That same year, "Journey on the Tongue" was selected as a winner of the EU-sponsored STARTS Prize 19. He expresses food with themes of human instinctive desire, curiosity, and evolution, proposing a new value in food that is neither fine dining nor gourmet, nor a source of nutrition or energy.
