Est. 2026 · Mumbai, Maharashtra
IST 1947
“India runs on its own time”
IST 1947 is named for 1 September 1947, the day independent India set its own clock, and it is built on a complaint most Indian watch buyers will recognise: decades of watches asking us to admire someone else's world — sailing, motorsport, foreign landscapes. Founder Karan Vaidya grew up inside that world; his family has spent three decades importing and distributing international watches in India, and the brand's authorised service centre is Rose The Watch Bär at Mumbai's House of Rose. The debut line-up turns that inheritance inward across three collections: Arka dress watches with a Konark Wheel small seconds and custom Devanagari-inspired numerals, Vanya field watches for Kaziranga, Gir, Ranthambore and Jawai with each state's own script at 12, and Vijay — five limited automatics, 100 pieces each, for India's five cricket World Cup wins, priced at a pointed ₹19,470. Sapphire on every model, individually numbered, and unapologetically Indian by default.
Founded
2026
Based in
Mumbai
Founder
Karan Vaidya
References
14
Price Range
₹9,999–₹19,470 · Arka, Vanya, Vijay
Made in India
Designed
Movement types
Official Website
ist1947.com
Collections
Arka
Vanya
Vijay
Watch catalogue
14 references indexed
Vijay
Vijay 1983
Navy and crisp cricket whites for 25 June 1983 at Lord's — the underdog final before colour televisi…
Vijay
Vijay 2007
Light blue and a jolt of yellow for the first T20 World Cup in Johannesburg — a young side, a new fo…
Vijay
Vijay 2011
Blue and orange for 2 April 2011 at the Wankhede — a captain's six into the Mumbai sky, and Sachin T…
Vijay
Vijay 2024
The blue and orange of modern Indian cricket for the night in Barbados when years of near-misses fin…
Vijay
Vijay 2026
Deep navy and fresh blue for the title India defended — a win that felt less like an arrival than a …
Arka
Arka After Hours
A navy sunray dial for the sky after the workday ends, with ivory numerals and the Konark Temple's s…
Arka
Arka Cloud Nine
Powder blue for the softest hour of a morning sky, with deep blue Devanagari-inspired numerals and K…
Arka
Arka Golden Hour
A salmon sunray dial for evening light falling across stone — fitting for a watch whose small second…
Arka
Arka Rain Check
The green of a garden on a monsoon afternoon, when the rain is in no hurry to stop — copper-toned nu…
Arka
Arka White Noise
An ivory sunray dial with black numerals — the watch equivalent of a steady hum you stop noticing — …
Vanya
Vanya Kaziranga Gorh
A deep green fumé dial for Kaziranga's floodplains — elephant grass darkened by dew along the Brahma…
Vanya
Vanya Ranthambore Bagh
Muted olive for Ranthambore's dhok scrub and shadowed trails, where tiger pugmarks on the morning tr…
Vanya
Vanya Gir Sinh
A warm brown fumé drawn from Gir's dry teak forest and sun-baked trails — home of the last wild Asia…
Vanya
Vanya Jawai Tendua
Dark grey for Jawai's granite outcrops at dusk, where leopards live alongside villages and are defin…
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