This is an update from 2023 that HMT was brought back to life again and people are going crazy again for its watches

I’m a Japanese. I started to like watches recently, and Now I learned that there’s a great mechanical watch company in India. It is ironic that every Japanese watch companies, which made a big Quartz Shock in 70s, now struggle in the Smartphone Shock and go back into producing mechanical watches. HMT better hold on a little bit more, because people around the world already have boring quartz watches and smartphone, we need lovely mechanical watches!

As a watch enthusiast this is a really sad story, HMT watches were proof that quality mechanical watches didn't have to be expensive products

It already had heritage , all it needed was to give it a new lease of life by providing them nice factory, higher quality material , introduction of new models like dress watch , diver watch , gym watch and every day casual watch and few nice shops in higher end malls . Indians would have proudly purchased their OG INDIAN FIRST WRIST WATCH .

HMT product also well known in my country, Indonesia. its a shame if theyre ended up closed

:'( I remember my dad gifting me a HMT watch when I was a kid. Best thing that ever happened to me.

My grandfather told me numerous stories about hmt also his watch collection has been passed down to me which has a rare omega and Rolex but I don’t know why he still used hmt janata and rajat so here’s the story hmt wanted to start their first winding watch company to which they asked seiko for help but Japanese brand said no as they wanted to establish plant in india also citizen helped hmt during initial years providing them the knowledge and hence the first hmt was created known as janta as named by `Jawaharlal Nehru ‘the tagline holds (For the people ,by the people) a lot of people still holds hmt not because of the cheap price but because of emotion and history attached to it i still proudly wear janta it’s my everyday watch and has been with us for 50 years and i still have the original document and case with it. I hope I don’t lose it. Cheers to all hmt owners sadly the company has been shut because of funding but we still hope to bring it back.

That is freaking sad, I really hope that HMT will rise again one day.

I am from Bangladesh and I have a hmt watch.Its hurt me a lot when I heard that hmt shut down.Its break my heart.When next time I visit India I will buy couple of these classic watch...sorry for my english

As an American, seeing this makes me sad, HMT allowed workers to have a decent life and to be proud of their work. I bought an HMT watch online recently and will be getting it soon.

Please note the original HMT watch company was started in Bangalore in 1953, specializing in precision tools , the watch division set up in collaboration with Citizen Watch Co,Japan in 1961. Ranibagh was the last manufacturing division to be added.

Please bring back HMT.. this brand was authentic, made great design , in house movement and at a good price. I'm not Indian but I love HMT watches and its honestly painful to see such a great heritage for India disapearing..

Mr Narendra Modi...pls bring HMT back.....it is our heritage and an Indian legend....

There is something special about owning a HMT watch. Fortunately I have been able to purchase 3 of them till now, very old, unsold stock from very old watch shops.

I am in the watch trade (B2B), based in Bangalore. The company as of 2023 is up and running. They have re introduced it into the market. It unlikely that they will capture the mass market, but can serve a niche. Nonetheless the heritage continues. Am happy to be doing business with them again.

Odd that they never thought to market them internationally - like the Swatch company did. Batteries are convenient, but the sound mechanical wind up watches make, may be more pleasant to many than the sound quartz automatics make. .. Or maybe they realized that they simply will not be able to employ as many persons as robots and AI computers takeover? Still "hand crafted" can be marketed more easily at higher prices. "Would you pay more to save a tuna fish?"

what a shame . I would love to have a new HMT but all of the ones I have purchased from eBay have been horribly rebuilt . good luck to the people in the plant .

Hmt watches r gaining more demand while the company is closed now in india but we showed our back to it while it existed

They should have simply raised prices. It is paradoxical, but sometimes raising prices results in higher demand, because people perceive it to be not the same product as before. "High price? - It's luxury" versus "It's cheap, therefore low class". But strictly speaking, Giffen goods according to economists do not exist.. well, maybe gasoline, in the sense that it is hoarded when the price goes up for fear that the price will increase even further. But in the absence of price expectations and seeing a product for what it is, and not inferring from a prive tag what it might be, there may be no such thing as a giffen good. See, wikipedia.

Great video thanks

Thankyou team wall street for making this video

HMT never goes out of fashion

Thanks to my great mechanic I continue exhibitting my good old Janatha. Sure as a sign of subtle vanity...

Wonderful watches. Wish you all the success 👍👍👍👍🌄👍👍👍👍👍👍🌄

The best of the bests. I am having 5 of them. 3 handwind and 2 automatic

I still had my mother's 1984 hmt roshan watch ...

My HMT watch is arriving soon!!

HMT watch is emotion of India. Save HMT....!!!! Live Long HMT....❤️🙏🙏🙏

I want to own a automatic watch pls continue the production nd improve it

i didnt know of this until very recently now im gonna get janata 17 jewels and few other finds

HMT needs to make a comeback!

Love you hmt

Things get shut down in era of boom in buyers mean there is something flaw in product.. its ok if you want to keep retro design but you need to up game in quality.. sure it ll work only if indian private sector jump & buys the company.. with good management good orders & frugle r&d is only way forward for this or other companies

Let collaborate seiko with HMT and give it to Private company. HMT surely will be successful brand ... make in India. Wearing a watch of classic brand & classic style and just of simple design... it self gives a wonderful feeling. We have to walk on, ground even keeping our big dreams in mind

I want one!

I want HMT Pilot Dial& jantha Dials and glasses, Hands.

Ab bhi production chalu hay. Market chahiye. Uploder please tell us where there is the link of online purchases. Please

MAKE INDIA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

It's the best mechanical watch company.... 🙏🙏

the company is not producing any mechanical watches these days. Good days will only come back if they market their products

very sad to see HMT in this state.. true heritage... dont let it die...

Rather sad. Most mechanical watches today sell because of their heritage. Here is a company that has heritage and yet cannot survive.

HMT is back again, y'all!

They are doing exactly the opposite of Japan. Japan stopped manufacturing arms and ammunition and moved to watches and other electronics. Today they are the best manufacturer of electronics and even watches.

Try to do something to reborn Hmt....

i have hmt chethan watch

Anyone knows what happened in the time after the video was made?

Did not update design

Please reopen HMT watches 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 ..

Hmt can be revived just like royal Enfield.

I seriously think HMT need to have some good designers may be as the Company still holds a good reputation in the country I too have a watch but the designs are pretty basic comparing from today's trend.

save hmt

#wanthmtback

While the rest of the world makes watches, perfumes, great art, fashion, fine instruments and other great things. We Indians gloat over our past glories from centuries ago. India of the present times only produces humans to go overseas and work like slaves. Things are changing but the pace is incredibly slow. We need be like the Americans of the 1900s, Europe of the 1600s and Japan of the 1950s. India has the potential to be the next Glashutte or the next Detroit or Wetzlar. We're more than a mere Middle Class bubble that sacrifices on true glory for temporary safety of a job for yet another PWC or Microsoft. Nothing wrong with that, but true power is in production and creation. Why can't we make the next Mont Blanc or the next Leica or even the next Seiko ?

I hope the suggestion to repurpose the factory to make ammunition was a joke

Hmt is watch great

tata PLEASE save this company..

antique HMT watch ko sell krna Ho to kahaa karen

Government of India ...shameless ...has closed down many such government companies

Iam going to buy a hmt tocontribute in increasing demand

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Very sad to see 😭

people who worked in HMT show very rigid mindset and not known the truth that world has changed a lot with watch making and need of the new generation customers Sales department is poorly learned competition outside, though they make watches for others but not realized that time moved ahead

I have 10 hmt watch.

Its sad...

Hmt janta is very old.

Bas Naam Hi Kafi Hai Galli Se Lekar Dilli Chote Se Lekar Bade Tak Har Koi Naam Janata Hai H M T Ka Old Is Gold Aap Log Nirash Na Ho Bhagavan Ke Ghar Der Hai Par Andher Nahi Mai Aap Logo Ke Liye Bhagavan Se Prathana Karunga Aap Ki Har Eccha Manokamana Puri Ho Bure Din Jayege Acche Din Jarur Aayege Ye Mera Visvas Hai

I plan to buy in paytm for 599

I am a Designer. I design watches are accessories. Ian having unique concept watches. please give me a chance to work with HMT.

India needs to save this. Modi claims to make india self reliant so why ain't he helping this company? He just cares more about electricity and gas and phone companies. I'm buying 2 today!

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Such irony, there is such huge market for hand made Mechanical watches and we lost it. This is short sight and anti socialist mindset

आप लोग एच एम टी घडी कयो नहीं बनाते हैं

My guess they produced too much variety and thus diluted the brand. .. Like Levi's Jeans... too many number models to choose from now, that few remember "the 501". ... You say Porsche, who does not think, "911"... HMT .. Pilot, Janata, Sona (but not "real sona".. only "sona-plated".. not cool). But HMT Pilot is still cool. It looks Timex 50s American, but few in America, and many in India too have never heard of HMT - awful marketing. The engineering though, is stunning.

Jobhi. .is .coment Ko .dakhrahoe.hmt. warldfemashcompani.,tha..hindustan,.. Ithni..bheekhari..hogaya..HMT..watch Bandho..hogaya..hmtkelie..apsose HMT..ko..tata...leletokuchh...hojaye

i am longing to buy one 🥲