Gurugram-based luxury watch brand Rotoris has raised Rs 70 crore in a Series A funding round led by Blume Ventures, less than a year after its $3 million seed round.
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9Unicorns and Centricity also took part in the round. They were joined by family offices and individual investors, including Diwakar Goel, Global Head of Data at BlackRock, Atul Singh, former Group President for Asia Pacific at Coca-Cola, and Adhiraj Burman of the Dabur family.
Actor and television host Rannvijay Singha also invested.
Nikhil Kamath-backed Rotoris said it will use the money for research and development, to expand production and to grow its physical presence in India and overseas.
Founded in 2025, Rotoris was established by Aakash Anand, Prerna Gupta, Anant Narula, Kunal Kapania and Harman Wadhwa, whom the startup describes as India’s only formally trained watchmaker from Switzerland. Gupta leads the startup, overseeing brand development and customer experience.
The brand does not sell its watches openly. Buyers sign up on its Registry, wait for an allocation and then complete a private purchase. Each watch is individually numbered.
Rotoris launched in February 2026 with five collections: Auriqua, Monarch, Astonia, Arvion and Manifesta. The company said its first drop of 2,100 numbered watches sold out within days.
According to the startup, nearly 100,000 people have since registered for access. About 40% of that demand comes from outside India, including the US, Dubai and Australia.
When the brand opened an appointment-only salon in Delhi, its watches were priced broadly between Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000, according to Robb Report India. Its newer releases sit higher. The latest Manifesta is built in 18K solid gold, with semi-precious stone dials, lab-grown diamond hour markers and a Japanese Miyota 82S0 automatic movement.
In August 2026, Rotoris launched a new version of Astonia, its first chronograph built around a Swiss movement, the Ronda 5030.D, in five variants. The watches are assembled and tested at the Rotoris Atelier in Gurugram, with movements sourced from Switzerland and Japan.
Rotoris runs its showroom format, Rotoris House, in Delhi. With the new funding, it plans to take Rotoris House to Mumbai and New York.
The brand has already started courting a global audience. In April, it attended Watches & Wonders Geneva, held from 14 to 20 April at Palexpo, about two months after its launch.
Anand built fragrance and personal care brand Bella Vita, which was acquired by private equity firm Ananta Capital, before exiting the business. He also set up Wolfpack Labs, a venture studio for early-stage startups, in April 2024 with Rs 50 crore of his own money.
In December 2025, Rotoris raised $3 million in a seed round led by Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, actor-investor Vivek Anand Oberoi, Venture Catalysts, 100 Unicorns and Tanmay Bhat. More than 30 founders also invested, including Mamaearth’s Varun Alagh, Noise’s Gaurav Khatri and Snitch’s Siddharth Dungarwal.
The seed money was earmarked for manufacturing and assembly, engineering, supply chains, inventory and its first experience store in New Delhi.
Rotoris is raising money as demand for imported luxury watches in India rises. Switzerland exported CHF 295 million worth of watches to India in 2025, up 35% from 2023, according to Swissinfo.
Swiss watches faced a 22% import duty in India. Under the India-EFTA trade agreement, that duty has been cut twice, on 1 October 2025 and at the start of 2026, and will keep falling until it reaches zero within five years.
