Cooke and Kelvey

In 1981 Shri Nathji visits Cook and Kelvey, watchmakers, to get his watch repaired. Priya Nath insists that he buy a new watch for Shri Nathji.
There are expensive watches costing three thousand rupees each, but Shri Nathji chooses a cheap HMT watch for rupees three hundred and seventy five only.
There is a tragedy in the shop as the metal strap bites into Shri Nathji’s wrist and precious drops of blood come out.
Dettol is obtained from a nearby chemist and applied. The shopkeeper apologizes but Shri Nathji blesses him and embraces him. Priya Nath is aware of the powers of evil-the asuri bal- that doggedly keeps at the heels of Shri Nathji.
Shri Nathji also send His wrist-watch is constantly out of order and is sent for the sixth time in januray 1984 to Cook and Kelvey at Janpath who have failed miserably to repair it.
Perhaps the watch is merely an excuse that Shri Nathji is using to give the shop His Blessings.
But Shri Nathji is very patient with them and gives them one chance after another. It is a very old watch, purchased 40 years ago by Shri Nathji, with a golden coloured dial and a gold plated metallic strap.  Shri Nathji’s watch stops working again and is sent to Cooke and Kelvey for the sixth time.. They repair it and return it, but the watch stops working as soon as Shri Nathji ties it around his wrist! Perhaps the watch is merely an excuse that Shri Nathji is using to give the shop His Blessings.

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Cooke & Kelvey was founded in 1858 by Robert Thomas Cooke and Charles Kelvey. They were Kolkata-based clock-makers, silversmiths, jewelers working during the later period of British India. Notable Cooke and Kelvey clocks include those in the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, the Bhim Chandra Nag sweet shop in Kolkata, and the Fairlie Warehouse in Kolkata. They remain silversmiths with showroom in New Delhi . Also they are the first and oldest appointed Rolex and Tudor retailers in India since 1946.

Today Cooke & Kelvey at new Delhi is an exclusive Swiss watch luxury showroom with authorized retailer for Rolex & Tudor.