Padigam · Pagal & Iravu
Iravu
Ref. PDG-IRAVU
“Iravu is the night — a black dial in a black case where the white Tamil numerals sit like stars finding their places, from ௧ at one o'clock round to ௰௨ at the top.”
Last retail price
₹2.8K
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Case
40mm
Black Ion-Plated SS304 Steel
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Movement
Quartz
Seiko Epson AX33A
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Crystal
Mineral
Standard hardness
≋
Water resistance
30m
Splash only
The Story
“Iravu is the night — a black dial in a black case where the white Tamil numerals sit like stars finding their places, from ௧ at one o'clock round to ௰௨ at the top.
Iravu is the darker half of Padigam's launch pair, and the one that shows off the Tamil numerals best: white script on black, framed by a black ion-plated steel case. The brand describes it as a silence often mistaken for emptiness, and the design earns the line — no logo clutter, no sub-dials, just twelve numerals most wearers will have learned at school and never seen on a watch. Specs are identical to Pagal: 40mm, 20mm lugs, mineral crystal, 30m, Epson day-date quartz. It sold out at ₹2,799.
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About the maker
Padigam
Founded 2026 · Chennai · Two Chennai friends — a vintage watch collector and a son of a multi-generational watchmaking family (names undisclosed)
Padigam began with a question its founders put plainly: why should time always be read in numbers that don't belong to us? The Chennai brand — formerly Madras Watch Company, and still signing off as 'Born out of Madras, Made in India, Made for India' — answers it by replacing every hour marker with a Tamil numeral. Not the modern positional kind, either: the dials use the classical Tamil system, in which ten has its own sign (௰), so eleven is written ௰௧ and twelve ௰௨. The debut pair, Pagal (day) and Iravu (night), arrived in April 2026; Mathi (moonlight), Sudar (first sunlight) and Thulir (first monsoon green) followed in September. Every piece is a 40mm SS304 steel case on an Epson quartz day-date movement for ₹2,799 including shipping — and every one of them has sold out.
“Time, in your language”
Sold out — but not a dead end
Close to the Iravu, and in stock
The Iravu is gone from Padigam. These are the nearest watches you can still buy today, matched on the same heritage territory, price bracket and movement.
No longer available
Iravu by Padigam
Padigam has no stock left of this reference. It stays in the index as a record of what was made.
If you came here for the watch, the closest thing you can buy today is above.