Readers share photographs of their priceless HMT watches and the memories attached to it.
Even though HMT has survived for over 50 years, it failed to find a new peg to sell itself even as later entrants captured market share.
Being public sector employees, they still saw no reason to stir themselves unduly.
'Despite a quarter century since India began the uphill battle of moving away from its peculiar hybrid of imperial-feudal-socialism, it remains distressingly -- and sometimes reassuringly -- the country I left in 1986,' says Rahul Jacob.