IST 1947 · Arka
Arka After Hours
Ref. IST-ARKA-AFTERHOURS
“A navy sunray dial for the sky after the workday ends, with ivory numerals and the Konark Temple's stone chariot wheel turning quietly at 6 o'clock — 13th-century Odisha's sundial, reborn as a small seconds.”
Price
₹9,999
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Case
38mm
316L Steel
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Movement
Quartz
Miyota 1L45
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Crystal
Sapphire
Scratch-resistant
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Water resistance
100m
Swimming OK
The Story
“A navy sunray dial for the sky after the workday ends, with ivory numerals and the Konark Temple's stone chariot wheel turning quietly at 6 o'clock — 13th-century Odisha's sundial, reborn as a small seconds.
Arka is IST 1947's dress collection and its cleverest idea: the wheels of Konark's Sun Temple were built to cast shadows that tell the time, so IST turned one into a rotating small seconds at 6 o'clock and engraved another on the caseback. After Hours is the evening version — deep navy sunray under domed sapphire, warm ivory numerals in the brand's custom 'Bregnagari' Devanagari-inspired script, on a black alligator-embossed calf strap. The 38mm case is properly dress-sized, and a Miyota 1L45 quartz keeps it slim and grab-and-go. At ₹9,999 with 100m of water resistance, it is one of the most distinctly Indian dress watches you can buy under ₹10,000.
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About the maker
IST 1947
Founded 2026 · Mumbai · Karan Vaidya
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.
“India runs on its own time”
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