IST 1947 · Vijay
Vijay 1983
Ref. IST-VIJAY-1983
“Navy and crisp cricket whites for 25 June 1983 at Lord's — the underdog final before colour television, coloured kits and superstardom, when India first learnt to believe. A bat-and-ball small seconds keeps the game in play at 5 o'clock.”
Price
₹19,470 · limited to 100
◎
Case
43mm
PVD Coated 316L Steel
↻
Movement
Automatic
Miyota 82S7
◇
Crystal
Sapphire
Scratch-resistant
≋
Water resistance
50m
Light swimming
The Story
“Navy and crisp cricket whites for 25 June 1983 at Lord's — the underdog final before colour television, coloured kits and superstardom, when India first learnt to believe. A bat-and-ball small seconds keeps the game in play at 5 o'clock.
The Vijay collection is five watches for the five nights Indian cricket stopped, and 1983 is its origin story — Kapil Dev's side beating the West Indies at Lord's. Every Vijay shares the same engineering: a 43mm PVD-coated steel case over a Miyota 82S7 automatic with an open-worked small seconds, an AM-PM indicator at 9, a crown textured like a leather season ball, and a mineral-glass caseback engraved with the date and venue of the final. The 1983 is the restrained one, white strap and navy accents, a vintage sporting palette in a thoroughly modern tonneau case. Even the price is a wink — ₹19,470. Only 100 will be made.
Specifications
Case
Movement
Dial & Strap
100
Pieces worldwide
The Movement
Miyota 82S7
Automatic caliber
48h
Power reserve
Self
Winding
↻
Mechanical
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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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