For this year's show, Rado came up with a special treat: a musical spectacle between the traditional and the modern, between past and future / Vanessa-Mae prese

Lengnau, Switzerland (PROTEXT) - Do great music and excellent watches have something in common? Yes indeed, in Rado's opinion. And superstar Vanessa-Mae thinks the same. On 27 March 00, the world- famous violinist gave an impressive concert in Basel as Rado's star guest. This gave a very special accompaniment to the new Rado 'Ovation'. In its design, the new Rado is oriented towards the world's first scratchproof watch, the Rado 'DiaStar', thus embodying a link between past and future. Vanessa-Mae's musical performance directly follows this basic idea: for her, classical music is the paragon, but this does not prevent her from interpreting it in her own very personal way - daring, different, innovative and futuristic. Just like the new Rado 'Ovation'. The large audience of guests at the launching event on 27 March 00 showed their appreciation of the performance in appropriate fashion - with a standing ovation! Vanessa-Mae was born on 27 October 1978 in Singapore. Her family emigrated to England shortly after and Vanessa-Mae today considers herself English, although her roots are in Thailand and China. She took her first violin lessons at the age of five and her talent was so impressive that at the age of thirteen, she became the youngest violinist ever to appear with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She signed her first recording contract at the same age. After this, it was a nonstop success story. The 21-year-old classical virtuoso with the charisma of a pop star describes herself today as "sensual, affectionate and crazy". Pictures are available at www.rado.com Contact: Deborah Roemer Rado Uhren AG Tel. +41 32-655 6329 Fax: +41 32 655 6270 Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT