The Bangalore Watch Company Apogee Collection, a Tribute to India’s Space Programme
Celebrating 50 years of Indian space exploration with a new collection of watches.
Bangalore Watch Company is a rather surprising brand for several reasons. A young company founded in 2018 by husband and wife team Nirupesh Joshi and Mercy Amalraj, it is one of the rare representatives of the Indian watchmaking scene. Yet, since its inception, the brand has proven to be creative and successful in bringing cool sporty designs infused with a subtle Indian flair. Following a series of pilot’s watches, the MACH 1 series, and a watch inspired by the country’s most popular sport (cricket), the Bangalore Watch Company Cover Drive, BWC is back with yet another model. And with this Bangalore Watch Company Apogee Collection, the brand pays tribute to five decades of Indian space exploration.
While early stages of space exploration are often associated with the USA and USSR (for obvious reasons, given the insane budgets injected in research by both parties), there were, of course, more governments involved in this race. And India was one of them, yet with a slightly more understated approach, to say the least. Bullock carts and bicycles might have transported the foundations of the Indian space programme, and the programme launched in the harsh economic climate of the late 1960s, but the country’s ambitions were huge. Eventually, India joined the Soviet Interkosmos programme for space cooperation and got its first satellite – Aryabhatta – in orbit on board a Soviet rocket in 1975. And then things went fast. From firing rockets from a fishing village on the west coast of India to sending rockets to Mars from Sriharikota on the east coast of India, the Indian space programme has grown dramatically to the point where India is now part of a handful of spacefaring nations in the world with its ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), something that has become a great source of inspiration for over a billion people, and also for Bangalore Watch Company
Given that ISRO started to be active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bangalore Watch Co. has taken inspiration from this era to create a new watch that pays tribute to Indian space exploration, using typical space-related watch cues, yet with its own unique flair. Named Apogee, the farthest point of a satellite’s orbit, this new collection continues the brand’s idea of instrumental, sporty watches infused with Indian-related elements.
Case: 40mm diameter x 11mm height - 44mm lug-to-lug - micro bead-blasted grade 2 titanium case - sapphire crystal with AR coating - dual crown, one for the movement (push-pull), one for the internal bezel (screw-down) - screwed caseback - 100m water-resistant
Dial: matte-finished dials with smoked, gradient painting - applied markers and hands with Super-LumiNova - available in smoked blue (Horizon), smoked grey (Deepspace) and smoked green (Supernova) - also available with a meteorite dial (Extraterrestrial)
Movement: Sellita SW 200-1 (standard grade) - automatic - 26 jewels - 28,800 vibrations/hour - 38h power reserve - hours, minutes, seconds and date, plus internal rotating bezel for second time zone
Strap: 20mm black leather strap with titanium pin buckle
Price: starting from USD 925
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