AYANTRA

Adalaj · 1499 · Five storeys down

Descendto the water.

Above ground, Gujarat is forty degrees of white glare. Five storeys below, in the stepwell, it is fifteen and dim and carved on every surface. AYANTRA was designed down there. Keep scrolling — the light goes with you.

Begin the descent

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The Screen

Light arrivesalready carved.

Nothing reaches the lower storeys unbroken. Every beam passes a jaali first — a stone lattice cut so fine the sun comes through as pattern rather than light. That is the whole idea behind an AYANTRA dial. We do not decorate a surface. We decide what the light must pass through before it reaches your eye.

Motif 01

The Octagon

Adalaj's shaft is an octagon, not a circle — eight faces stepping down through five floors. It is the frame around every dial we draw, and the shape you are falling through right now.

Motif 02

The Vine

Carved leafwork runs the full descent, never once repeating. It became our hand profile and the frame around the date aperture on the Adalaj reference.

Motif 03

The Water

At the bottom, a still octagonal pool. Flat, dark, reflective — the reference for our midnight blue dial and the reason two of three pieces carry no ornament at all.

III

The Collection

Two dials,one architecture.

One 40 mm gold-tone case, one Japanese automatic calibre. What changes is how much of the stepwell survived the descent onto the dial — and one of them takes three times the tooling to make.

AYANTRA Royal — gold case, engraved midnight blue dial

Royal

Ref. AY-01·R · One of 100, numbered

The full carved field. Midnight blue engraved edge to edge in stepwell vinework, applied fleur indices, and a framed date rosette at six.

₹39,900Reserve →
AYANTRA Everyday — gold case, clean midnight blue dial

Everyday

Ref. AY-02 · Core collection

The same blue, stripped to structure. A minute track of open crescents, applied batons, and a single ornamented date rosette as the only flourish.

₹26,900Reserve →

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The Calibre

Specified withoutcompromise.

Case diameter
40.0 mm
Lug to lug
47.5 mm
Thickness
11.8 mm
Case material
316L Stainless Steel
Crystal
Sapphire, AR-coated
Case back
Exhibition sapphire
Movement
Japanese Automatic
Frequency
21,600 vph
Power reserve
41 hours
Water resistance
50 metres
Strap
Italian suede, 20 mm
Warranty
24 months

V

Jaymit, founder of AYANTRA

The Maker

Built in Ahmedabad,in public.

A question that would not leave: why does a country with this much ornamental history import all of its watch design? So I started at the stepwell, learned dial printing the slow way — pad press, ruined plates, a hundred rejected proofs — and am building the maison one reference at a time, openly, in front of the people who will wear it.

Every dial we ship is a piece of Gujarat that happens to keep time.

JaymitFounder · AYANTRA Watches

AYANTRA automatic watch at the floor of the well

You have reached the water

The First Series.One hundred and fifty.

Reserve now, pay nothing today. Royal is capped at one hundred numbered pieces and will not be made again. Everyday is part of the permanent collection. Either way we send a private link with final photography and payment details before the run is cast.

  • Royal: individually numbered case back, 001–100 — never repeated
  • Founding price, held for the first run only
  • A second Italian suede strap, included
  • First refusal on every future reference
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