IST 1947 · Vanya
Vanya Jawai Tendua
Ref. IST-VANYA-JAWAI
“Dark grey for Jawai's granite outcrops at dusk, where leopards live alongside villages and are defined by never being seen — their paw prints cross this dial at 3 and 9.”
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
“Dark grey for Jawai's granite outcrops at dusk, where leopards live alongside villages and are defined by never being seen — their paw prints cross this dial at 3 and 9.
Jawai Tendua is the insider's pick in the Vanya collection: not a national park but the leopard country of Rajasthan's Pali district, famous for big cats that share granite hills with farming villages. IST 1947 calls it the most understated watch in the range, and the grey fumé dial on a grey hook-and-loop strap bears that out. Leopard paw prints mark 3 and 9, a Devanagari numeral sits at 12, and the caseback is engraved with a map of Rajasthan and the Jawai Leopard Conservation Reserve's coordinates. 40mm steel, sapphire, C3 lume, 100m, date, Miyota 2115 quartz — ₹9,999 for the Vanya that rewards anyone who looks closely.
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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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