At the only official HMT store remaining in the city (at World Trade Centre, Cuffe Parade), we are greeted by empty showcase windows covered in dust, and the company’s final batch of watches. “We have ...

On a cold Delhi winter day time stood still forever for HMT Watches. Despite over three years of intensive care and life support, on 6 January 2016, it was official that the iconic and very Indian ...

When HMT wrote to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) earlier this month seeking to strike off HMT Watches Ltd, its wholly owned subsidiary, it marked a quiet but symbolic moment. The company that ...

Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) began its first watch-making unit in Bengaluru in 1961 when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru decided that India required a watch of its own. Experts from Japan’s ...