Est. 2026 · Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Padigam
“Time, in your language”
Padigam began with a question its founders put plainly: why should time always be read in numbers that don't belong to us? The Chennai brand — formerly Madras Watch Company, and still signing off as 'Born out of Madras, Made in India, Made for India' — answers it by replacing every hour marker with a Tamil numeral. Not the modern positional kind, either: the dials use the classical Tamil system, in which ten has its own sign (௰), so eleven is written ௰௧ and twelve ௰௨. The debut pair, Pagal (day) and Iravu (night), arrived in April 2026; Mathi (moonlight), Sudar (first sunlight) and Thulir (first monsoon green) followed in September. Every piece is a 40mm SS304 steel case on an Epson quartz day-date movement for ₹2,799 including shipping — and every one of them has sold out.
Founded
2026
Based in
Chennai
Founder
Two Chennai friends — a vintage watch collector and a son of a multi-generational watchmaking family (names undisclosed)
References
5
Price Range
₹2,799 · every model sold out
Made in India
Assembled
Movement types
Official Website
padigam.com
Collections
Pagal & Iravu
Mathi, Sudar & Thulir
Watch catalogue
5 references indexed
Pagal & Iravu
Pagal
Pagal is Tamil for day — a white dial threaded with blue, every hour written in the classical Tamil …
Pagal & Iravu
Iravu
Iravu is the night — a black dial in a black case where the white Tamil numerals sit like stars find…
Mathi, Sudar & Thulir
Mathi
Mathi is moonlight — a bright but soothing white dial in a black case, the light that shows the way …
Mathi, Sudar & Thulir
Sudar
Sudar is the first ray of sun after a long night — a saturated yellow dial that insists morning alwa…
Mathi, Sudar & Thulir
Thulir
Thulir is the first green shoot after the first monsoon rain on dry land — a pale mint dial that sme…
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