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Why Is Watchmaking So Difficult? The Business Behind Luxury | Gaurav Mehta | FO555 Raj Shamani
📅 29 August 2026 at 09:09 pm · Hosted by Figuring Out
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Gaurav Mehta, Founder of Jaipur Watch Company, a coin collector who taught himself watchmaking and built India's most distinctive watch brand.
He explains:
◼ Why a $200 Rolex once sold for $17.8 million and what made Paul Newman's Daytona the most expensive watch ever auctioned
◼ How to buy your first watch collection and which 3 watches Gaurav recommends starting with
◼ Why every shark on Shark Tank India rejected him and how that rejection became his best-performing ad campaign
◼ How a single Rs 900 Facebook boost found him a buyer after more than a year of zero sales
◼ What Swiss watches actually invented versus what they simply got very good at marketing
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:51 - Paul Newman's Daytona: The $17.8M Rolex Story
06:38 - How Gerald Genta Created the World's Most Iconic Watches
09:15 - Do Watches Actually Make You Money?
11:51 -
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