Ardra Labs was founded by Nava Krishnan. The name comes from Ardra, the lunar mansion under which he was born—one of twenty-eight segments marking the moon’s journey around the Earth.
For years, Nava kept track of time between Washington, D.C.–where he lives, and his family home in South India through GMT watches. They got the job done, yet none could quite do so perfectly. Well, that’s an understatement: India’s 5-hour and 30-minute offset from Greenwich Mean Time always required rounding down by 30 whole minutes—a gaping hole in the GMT complication.
That imperfection became the seed for Ardra Labs. After years of development, countless sketches and prototypes, and a pivotal visit to Baselworld (fortuitously, the last one ever to be held), the idea took form—with the support of manufacturing partners and investors who shared the vision of building something enduring.
At Ardra Labs, the aim is simple: to show that a small independent watchmaker, working within the realities of its scale, can create something greater than the sum of its parts.
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