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Titan Company Limited is an Indian company that mainly manufactures fashion accessories such as jewellery, watches and eyewear..
Xerxes Desai
Indian businessman
Xerxes Desai (1937 – 27 June 2016) was the first managing director of Titan Company, an Indian watchmaking company, and played an instrumental role in laying the foundation of the company.[2]
Biography
Desai was a graduate of Elphinstone College (Mumbai University) and Oxford University.[2]
Desai joined Tata Administrative Services in 1961 after graduation, working at several of their companies.[3] He founded Titan as a joint venture with J.
R. D. Tata in 1986, with support from the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation.[4] He had suggested the idea of a watchmaking company to Tata in the 1970s, who liked it, but bureaucratic hassles took time till the company was opened in 1986 in Hosur.[5][6][7]
In 1994, Desai challenged engineers at Titan to design the world's thinnest watch, with a movement 1.15mm thick inside a 3.5mm case.[8] The watch, called the