IST 1947 · Arka
Arka Cloud Nine
Ref. IST-ARKA-CLOUDNINE
“Powder blue for the softest hour of a morning sky, with deep blue Devanagari-inspired numerals and Konark's chariot wheel turning at 6 — the ancient Sun Temple's timekeeper, set spinning.”
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
≋
Water resistance
100m
Swimming OK
The Story
“Powder blue for the softest hour of a morning sky, with deep blue Devanagari-inspired numerals and Konark's chariot wheel turning at 6 — the ancient Sun Temple's timekeeper, set spinning.
Cloud Nine is the lightest, happiest face of the Arka collection. A powder-blue sunray dial sits under a domed sapphire crystal, the numerals rendered in IST 1947's custom Devanagari-inspired 'Bregnagari' script, with a navy alligator-embossed calf strap and matching blue stitching. The signature is the Konark Wheel small seconds at 6 o'clock — a direct reference to the 13th-century Sun Temple, whose carved wheels double as sundials — echoed in an engraved caseback. Miyota 1L45 quartz, 38mm, 100m water resistance, ₹9,999: an easy first Indian watch for someone who has only ever worn a Swiss or Japanese brand.
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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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