Titan: The Watch That Built an Indian Giant
How a Village Factory Beat the Licence RajBy Amit Biswas
Length1h 37m
About this audiobook
In 1984 an Indian could not simply buy a watch. You joined a waiting list and waited months, and anything modern arrived through the smuggling networks. This is the story of the Tata joint venture that broke that monopoly: of Xerxes Desai, who spent a decade obtaining permission to try; of a factory in a Tamil Nadu village staffed by people who had never made anything; of a Mozart symphony played on water bowls; and of the failure in gold that became ninety percent of the company. Fourteen episodes.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, History
Length1 hr 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Episode 1: The Country That Could Not Tell Time
2Episode 2: The Man Who Asked Why
3Episode 3: Seven Years of Paperwork
4Episode 4: A Factory in a Village
5Episode 5: The Quartz Gamble
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6Episode 6: February 1987
7Episode 7: Mozart in a Water Bowl
8Episode 8: A Million Watches
9Episode 9: The Gold Mistake
10Episode 10: The Machine That Told the Truth
11Episode 11: How Many Do You Have?
12Episode 12: One Point One Five Millimetres
13Episode 13: The Watch Company That Sells Gold
14Episode 14: What Titan Actually Built
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