IST 1947 · Vanya
Vanya Gir Sinh
Ref. IST-VANYA-GIR
“A warm brown fumé drawn from Gir's dry teak forest and sun-baked trails — home of the last wild Asiatic lions — with lion paw prints at 3 and 9 and a Gujarati numeral at 12.”
Price
₹9,999
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Case
40mm
316L Steel
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Movement
Quartz
Miyota 2115
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Crystal
Sapphire
Scratch-resistant
≋
Water resistance
100m
Swimming OK
The Story
“A warm brown fumé drawn from Gir's dry teak forest and sun-baked trails — home of the last wild Asiatic lions — with lion paw prints at 3 and 9 and a Gujarati numeral at 12.
Gir is the only place on earth where Asiatic lions still live in the wild, which makes Gir Sinh the Vanya with the most singular story. The brown fumé dial and matching brown hook-and-loop strap give it the dusty, practical look of forest-road kit, while luminous lion paw prints replace the 3 and 9 markers and a Gujarati numeral sits at 12. The caseback carries an engraved map of Gujarat and Gir National Park's coordinates. Built like the rest of the collection — 40mm steel, sapphire, C3 lume, 100m, date, Miyota 2115 quartz — and priced at ₹9,999, it is the quiet, confident one of the four.
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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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