Go back in 'time' with this HMT watch collector

lAnjana Raman By Express News Service BENGALURU : Ponnappa I G seems like your regular Bengalurean He is 40 years-old and an IT employee However a hobby that sets him apart is his love for old mechanical watches.

Most of these are HMT watches and any memorabilia related to them Ponnappa has a big collection of around 1,600 watches His craze for HMT watches started when he was a kid He has some rare watches from brand such as Excel, Tarus, Sweekar, Pinaki Sona Skeleton, HMT Citizen.

Ponnappa is also particularly fond of watches of the HMT’s Janata series such as the Janata gold indices and Lumed Janata indices that are a part of his collection “My dad was an employee in HMT and I was born and brought up around the HMT quaters and factory It got me fascinated for anything related to HMT,” says Ponnappa After he passed his 10th standard, he bought. Source