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India’s luxury watch boom is ticking. Franck Muller wants a bigger share

A infrastructure development with market-wide reach.

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India is emerging as a bright spot for Swiss watchmakers amid uneven global demand. Franck Muller sees the market closing the gap with Singapore and the UAE, and is exploring airport retail, celebrity partnerships and branded residences, though demand for watches above ₹50 lakh remains limited.

Infra spending is both an economic-cycle signal and a direct order pipeline for capital-goods names.

Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.

  • This is a market-wide development — its reach goes beyond any single stock.