PNN
New Delhi [India], July 14: In May this 12 months, Peter Wilson, the London 2012 Olympic Gold Medallist and India’s overseas shotgun coach, sat down for an unique dialog with premium Indian watchmaker Rotoris, sporting the model’s signature Monarch Silver Black timepiece. Asked about the way forward for India’s shotgun programme, Wilson expressed his unwavering confidence:
‘I see within the Indian group extra expertise than I ever had, extra drive, extra objective. They will win. Mark my phrases. We will win.’
Just two months later, on 11 July 2026, on the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Lonato, Italy, that confidence turned actuality.
Naib Subedar Neeru Dhanda of the Army Marksmanship Unit scripted historical past by turning into the primary Indian girl ever to win an ISSF World Cup Gold Medal in Trap Shooting. The 26-year-old shooter from Haryana delivered an distinctive efficiency, topping qualification with a national-record 121 out of 125 earlier than holding her nerve within the ultimate to attain 27 hits out of 30 targets, defeating former World Champion and Olympian Carole Cormenier of France in a dramatic last-shot end.
Competing on residence soil, Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist Silvana Stanco of Italy exited the medal spherical early, underlining the depth of Dhanda’s outstanding achievement.
Training underneath Peter Wilson, with Olympian Mansher Singh serving as High Performance Manager, Neeru’s victory marks one of many defining milestones in Indian shotgun capturing historical past.
For Rotoris, nonetheless, the victory represents one thing deeper than sport.
The model believes each extraordinary achievement follows the identical journey–from conviction to creation.
A manifestation stays solely a sentence till somebody commits to the unseen effort required to make it actual.
That philosophy lies on the coronary heart of Rotoris itself.
Built as a design-led luxurious watch home from India, Rotoris was based on an bold imaginative and prescient lengthy earlier than its first timepiece was produced. Every watch is first imagined, then meticulously designed line by line, engineered utilizing Swiss and Japanese actions, and crafted in restricted numbers with uncompromising consideration to element.
Neeru Dhanda’s journey mirrors that very same philosophy–where perception is validated solely by way of relentless self-discipline, perseverance and invisible work.
Prerna Gupta, CEO & Co-Founder, Rotoris, stated:
‘Rotoris is a product of manifestation. We declared what this model would develop into earlier than we had earned the proper to say it out loud, after which we went and constructed it. Design-led, drawn line by line, Swiss and Japanese actions imagined in India, made in restricted numbers–every step of it earned.
So we recognise what occurred in Lonato as a result of it’s the similar form. Peter expressed full confidence in May. Neeru shot 121 out of 125 in July. The universe merely waits to see whether or not you meant it. She meant it. Congratulations, Neeru. India has waited a very long time for this, and due to you the wait ends right here.’
Aakash Anand, Co-Founder, Rotoris, added:
‘When Peter spoke with full confidence that India would win, it was ambition spoken aloud along with his identify hooked up to it, which is the one type of ambition that prices something. Then he went and coached it into existence, and she or he went and did the invisible work off the range–the work that stays off digital camera.
Her gold belongs totally to her. We merely recognise the journey. We design timepieces for precisely this type of person–the man or girl nonetheless in movement, nonetheless turning into, who has already determined how the story ends and is just strolling towards it.’
For Rotoris, time has by no means been measured merely by seconds and minutes. It is measured by dedication, preparation and the braveness to consider earlier than the world does.
Peter Wilson believed.
Neeru Dhanda proved it.
And India celebrated a historic first.
About RotorisRotoris is a design-led luxurious watch home from India. Every Rotoris timepiece is drawn line by line earlier than it’s engineered, powered by precision Swiss and Japanese actions, and imagined in India. Produced in restricted numbers, every watch displays considerate design, meticulous craftsmanship and purposeful engineering.
Built for people who’re continually evolving, Rotoris celebrates those that proceed to construct, transfer ahead and develop into more–one second at a time.
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