IST 1947 · Arka
Arka Rain Check
Ref. IST-ARKA-RAINCHECK
“The green of a garden on a monsoon afternoon, when the rain is in no hurry to stop — copper-toned numerals and a Konark Wheel small seconds turning at its own unhurried pace.”
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
“The green of a garden on a monsoon afternoon, when the rain is in no hurry to stop — copper-toned numerals and a Konark Wheel small seconds turning at its own unhurried pace.
Rain Check is the Arka for people who find the monsoon romantic rather than inconvenient. A rich green sunray dial carries warm copper-toned numerals in IST 1947's Devanagari-inspired script, with a copper Konark Wheel small seconds at 6 and a dark brown alligator-embossed calf strap. It is the most vintage-feeling of the five colourways, and green-and-copper photographs beautifully. The mechanics are sensible rather than showy — a Miyota 1L45 quartz in a 38mm steel case under domed sapphire, rated to 100m — which is exactly right for a ₹9,999 dress watch you will actually wear.
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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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