HMT WATCHES LIMITED

HMT WATCHES LIMITED

Hmt Limited, formerly Hindustan Machine Tools Limited, is a state-owned manufacturing company under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises in India. The company has a work force of 2,806 with manufacturing units located at Bangalore, Pinjore, Kalamassery, Hyderabad and Ajmer.

Hindustan Machine Tool was incorporated in 1953 by the Government of India as a machine tool manufacturing company. In the year 1961, HMT set up a watch manufacturing Unit in Bangalore in collaboration with m/s Citizen Watch Co., Japan. The first batch of Hand Wound Wrist Watches manufactured at this factory was released the then prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1972, HMT expanded its watch manufacturing capacity with a set up alongside the Bangalore Factory to manufacture additional watches. Since 1985, HMT Watches has been involved in making Floral Clocks, Solar Clocks, International Clocks, and Tower Clocks; most popular among them is the Garden clock in Bangalore. In 2000, HMT Watch Business was re-structured as HMT Watches Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMT Limited.

HMT was the first Indian Watch Manufacturer company after the independence of India. Jawaharlal Nehru Ji released the first watched manufactured by HMT. The company started the manufacturing of watches with the help of Japanese Technology.

HMT Watches Limited has manufactured various models of watches which are Elegance, Inox, Inox Gold, Eco-friend Automatic, HQ, Economic, Sangam, Utsav, Sona, Euan, Track, Shreyas, Chronograph, Roman, Eco-find Mechl (for Gents & Lady), Packet Watch Quartz, Pace Quartz, Regular Quartz, Lalit, Q Series, Swarna, Chuz It, Eco-frnd Add Skelton, Special and Display Clocks.

HMT Limited manufactures many other products which are Machine Tools, Tractors, Printing Machinery, Bearings and Food processing Machinery.