This ad from 1996 for HMT watches shows the brand making a claim of "apnapan" and Indianness, as it lost ground to foreign players. Irrespective of the merits of the ad, the strategy did not work.

Astra The Astra was the first HMT watch with a digital chronograph, a stopwatch combined with the display. Buyers were willing to pay a lot more than company price to get their hands on it.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved the closure of three companies of Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT), India's oldest watch making company. HMT Limited ...

He has been a fan of the old mechanical watches produced by the once-upon-a-time "public sector giant" HMT, or Hindustan Machine Tools, over the past 53 years. The 37-year-old has been collecting ...

HMT mechanical watches were once the height of fashion in India. But time may be running out for the half-century old company. Photo: Jesse Pesta/The Wall Street Journal RANIBAGH, India—In the ...

For instance, Abhinand and Rakesh are moderators of a 14-year-old HMT Watches Facebook group, with over 19,000 members. In March 2022, the two friends planned to create a fresh and distinctive ...

What more, he even has to wind the watch to make it run on time but still doesn't want to do away with it. The actor has taken fancy to an old vintage HMT watch and loves to wear it every day.

In 2016, the government had approved the closure of three companies of Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT), India's oldest watch-making company. The company was incorporated as a Central government ...

He has been a fan of the old mechanical watches produced by the once-upon-a-time "public sector giant" HMT, or Hindustan Machine Tools, over the past 53 years. The 37-year-old has been collecting ...