At Watches and Wonders in Geneva, Janhvi Kapoor is not trying to out-speak the collectors. She is here with Baume & Mercier for the Maison’s 2026 novelties, and the fair is her first real immersion into the world of watchmaking. “I’ve never been to an expo like this,” she says. “To see so many watch enthusiasts, all the craftsmanship and artistry, it’s been a very special experience.”
Her own relationship with watches begins less technically. The watch she wears most often is the one gifted to her by her parents. “It was my first watch,” she says. That is what makes an object stay in her wardrobe: memory first, then how often she can actually wear it. A piece has to move across occasions, and it cannot make her feel like she has walked into a room carrying a neon sign.
That last part matters because Kapoor is more self-conscious about attention than her public presence suggests. “Wearing something that grabs too much attention makes me feel very shy and conscious,” she says. Her sister Khushi, she adds, teases her for owning beautiful things and then not wearing them because they feel like too much. Then comes the caveat, because of course there is one. “When it’s an amazing garment or look and I’m on a red carpet, then I want everyone to look at me,” she says, laughing.
This is where her everyday wardrobe makes sense. The pieces she returns to are simple because they lower the stakes of getting dressed: a white T-shirt, jeans, black loafers, neutrals. “The only thing that matters to me is comfort,” she says. If something demands too much of her before she has even left the house, it usually stays in the wardrobe.
Watches are still becoming a habit for her. “I haven’t gotten into the habit of wearing a watch in my everyday life,” she says. “But when I’m going out, when I want to feel super elegant and mature, I feel like a lovely watch does that always.” She likes them when they behave like jewellery: something that can make her feel more dressed without making her self-conscious.
The Baume & Mercier piece she wore in Geneva follows that line of thought. Steel, textured, set with diamonds. “It’s stunning,” she says. The point, for Kapoor, is not horological vocabulary. It is whether she can wear it with the clothes she already reaches for, and whether it will make her feel dressed without making her self-conscious.
The same idea shows up when she talks about her Miu Miu spectacles, which she reaches for when she wants an outfit to feel less basic. “I feel like I make more sense every time I wear these glasses,” she says. “I look smarter, so I sound smarter.” She knows the logic is absurd. She also knows it works for her.
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