IST 1947 · Arka
Arka Golden Hour
Ref. IST-ARKA-GOLDENHOUR
“A salmon sunray dial for evening light falling across stone — fitting for a watch whose small seconds is the chariot wheel of Konark's Sun Temple, carved to read the sun itself.”
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
“A salmon sunray dial for evening light falling across stone — fitting for a watch whose small seconds is the chariot wheel of Konark's Sun Temple, carved to read the sun itself.
Salmon dials have become a collector's shorthand for taste, and Golden Hour is IST 1947's take — a warm sunray salmon with contrasting deep-blue 'Bregnagari' numerals and a blue Konark Wheel small seconds at 6. The pairing is more interesting than it sounds: a sun-coloured dial carrying the wheel of India's most famous Sun Temple. A dark brown alligator-embossed calf strap keeps it warm rather than formal. Underneath, the Arka spec is the same across all five colours — 38mm steel, domed sapphire, Miyota 1L45 quartz, 100m — at ₹9,999. Of the five, this is the one with the most personality.
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Dial & Strap
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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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