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Home / News / Business News / HMT plant reopens for making last batch of watches
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    HMT plant reopens for making last batch of watches

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    Last updated on Jan 01, 2016, 07:47 pm
    HMT plant reopens for making last batch of watches
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  • Hindustan Machine Tools ( HMT) is resuming operations at its Haldwani plant, shut since two years, to make its last batch of 5500 watches.

    After the order's completion, the factory would close as per the government's decision to close HMT's watch units all over the nation.

    Since last year, employees have been protesting to have the factory turned into an ordinance unit for HAL.

  • In this article
    HMT pioneers watchmaking in India HMT loses out to Titan's quartz watches Quartz watch manufacturing in India HMT plunges into losses HMT ventures into online market Titan's take on HMT's decline HMT fails to check losses; Centre proposes its shutdown HMT plant reopens for making last batch of watches
  • 1961

    HMT pioneers watchmaking in India

    HMT pioneers watchmaking in India
  • In 1961, Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) set up the country's first watch manufacturing unit in collaboration with Japanese watchmaker Citizen Watch.

    HMT Watches soon earned the tag of 'Timekeeper to the nation' and for three decades it continued to rule 90% of the watch market.

    It launched many innovations in mechanical watches and even successfully transitioned to automatic watches in the 1970s.

  • 1987

    HMT loses out to Titan's quartz watches

    HMT loses out to Titan's quartz watches
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  • HMT received its first hit when 350 engineers left the company to join Titan.

    In 1987, Titan started making quartz watches which were sleeker and cheaper.

    HMT did not respond to the growing global trend of quartz watches and continued setting up manufacturing units for mechanical watches only to be replaced by Titan as the market leader in 1991.

  • Information

    Quartz watch manufacturing in India

  • HMT had manufactured the first quartz watches in India way before Titan in the 1970s. But back then, the quartz watches (Sona and Vijya) were found to be expensive, forcing HMT to roll back their manufacture.

  • 1994

    HMT plunges into losses

    HMT plunges into losses
  • In 1994, HMT faced losses for the first time and from then on was never able to recover, weakened further by poor working capital, erosion of trade channels, high borrowings and poor government decision making.

    After a reconstruction plan in 2000 failed, the government refused cash infusion.

    The Board for Reconstruction of Public Enterprises recommended closing the company down.

  • 28 Aug 2014

    HMT ventures into online market

    HMT ventures into online market
    Credits:
  • HMT Watches opened its e-portal as speculations of HMT's shutdown began to do the rounds, sparking a sudden demand for the watches from HMT aficionados.

    HMT tied up with Flipkart to sell 3000 of its stock and approached other e-commerce sites as well to sell the remaining stock of 1 lakh pieces worth over Rs.10 crore.

  • Quote

    Titan's take on HMT's decline

  • Xerxes Desai, who headed Titan from 1986 to 2002, attributed HMT's downfall fall to the lack of the government's foresight that the future of watches lay in quartz manufacturing.

  • 12 Sep 2015

    HMT fails to check losses; Centre proposes its shutdown

    HMT fails to check losses; Centre proposes its shutdown
  • After HMT registered losses of Rs.242 crore in 2013-14 from Rs.224 crore in 2011-12, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises decided to stop cash infusion and shut down the enterprise in a phased manner.

    This was to be done based on BRPSE recommendations.

    The company would be shut down after working out a -time settlement (VRS) for its 1,015 employees.

  • 1 Jan 2016

    HMT plant reopens for making last batch of watches

    HMT plant reopens for making last batch of watches
    Credits:
  • Hindustan Machine Tools ( HMT) is resuming operations at its Haldwani plant, shut since two years, to make its last batch of 5500 watches.

    After the order's completion, the factory would close as per the government's decision to close HMT's watch units all over the nation.

    Since last year, employees have been protesting to have the factory turned into an ordinance unit for HAL.

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