MARUT · CAL. HF24

Doubted.
Then proven.

A chronograph for people who trust their own read of the situation over everyone else's consensus. Named for the jet nobody thought would fly — then flew into a war and came home.

Crown 12:00
Cal. Automatic Chrono
Edition XX / 147
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File No. HF-24 · First flight 1961

The rulebook is not sacred.

The HF-24 Marut was India's first indigenous jet fighter — the first one built anywhere in Asia outside the Soviet Union. Early on, almost everyone had a reason it wouldn't work: underpowered, over-delayed, over-ambitious for a country that had never built one before.

It flew anyway. And in 1971, it flew into combat and earned a record the doubters didn't see coming. That's the only inheritance this watch cares about — not the aesthetics of an aircraft, but the instinct to build the thing you believe in before anyone signs off on it.

147
Airframes built
1971
Combat record earned
1st
Jet built in Asia outside USSR
Design DNA

Built for those who move first.

Signature

Crown at 12 o'clock

Every convention says 3. We moved it to 12 — the one place a watchmaker doesn't put it, and the one place this brand was always going to.

Dial

Cockpit-gauge subdials

Open-worked chronograph movement, fully visible, styled like the altimeter cluster it's named after.

Bezel

Ceramic, racing accent

A contrast arc in each variant's signature color — the only concession to color on an otherwise disciplined case.

Built to move

100m, sapphire, screw-down

Steel or titanium, 40–42mm. This is a watch for the desk, the deal, and the flight after both.

The Collection

Three tail numbers. One squadron.

Tail No. VY — Titanium
Vayu
Wind god. Brushed titanium, electric blue arc.
Dial: Black / charcoal
Strap: Blue rubber + steel bracelet
Tail No. PR — Black PVD
Prachand
"Fierce." Named for HAL's light combat helicopter.
Dial: Black
Strap: Black rubber + black PVD bracelet
Tail No. DH — Rose Gold
Dhruv
"Pole Star." Named for HAL's utility helicopter.
Dial: Deep emerald sunray
Strap: Brown leather + rose gold bracelet
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