Wittul Shamsett & Sons. A name that is synonymous with reliability and integrity. School trophies, medals and intricate jewellery... they have it all. This place, over the last century has made its mark on the consciousness of the Punekars. Started by Wittul Shamsett, a postman turned goldsmith, way back in 1865. Laxman Balwant Shamsett, one of the grandsons of the late Wittul Shamsett, opens up the doors of his memory, "Basically, we were dependent on the British for our livelihood because in the Camp area, the clientele consisted of foreigners and the affluent and the war helped us a lot," he admits candidly. "But in '47 when they left, there was a slump once again because most of the articles that we made were exclusively for the English. Since they were big-made, the rings and the other articles were made to suit their sizes. We Indians are small built and moreover, we hardly wore watches and if we did, it used to be small-faced dial watches - more like a lady's watch. It is the British who used to wear big-faced dial ones. Secondly, most of them, before they bought any articles from us,
