Funding

Rotoris Raises ₹70 Crore With Nearly 1 Lakh People Registered for About 2,000 Watches

Sabyasachi Chandra

₹70 crore Series A led by Blume Ventures, with 9Unicorns, Centricity, family offices, Rannvijay Singha and more than 30 founders, after a $3 million seed co-led by Nikhil Kamath, Venture Catalysts…

Rotoris sells limited, numbered watches through an invitation-only Registry. Its 2,100-piece founding collection sold out within days in February 2026 without discounts, and its Astonia chronograph…

Nearly 1 lakh people have registered, about 40% of demand comes from abroad, and roughly one in five founding-collection owners lives outside India.

Watches are assembled and tested in Gurugram with Swiss machinery and Swiss or Japanese movements. Prices were not disclosed in the announcements.

The core tension is scarcity versus growth: with about 46 registrants for every Astonia watch, adding revenue through more runs or collections risks the exclusivity the brand is built on.

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