Vivek Oberoi, The man who backed the Rotoris Manifesta before he wore It

Vivek Oberoi was fourteen when his boarding school cut off his allowance. He started earning his own money the same week. By his early twenties, he had built and sold a tech startup to a multinational. None of this was talked about much. It just happened, and he moved on to the next thing.

That pattern has continued for thirty years. Today, Vivek Oberoi has invested in 29 companies across fintech, edtech, agritech, sustainable luxury, and real estate. In the UAE, BNW Developments, which he leads, is managing billions in assets, built in five years from nothing. He co-founded a university. He is on the Forbes 40 Under 40 Heroes of Philanthropy list, the only Indian actor ever to appear on it.

Once he saw what was being built at Rotoris and put capital in, he picked up the Manifesta Blue Aventurine for himself.

The belief came first. The Manifesta watch came second.

The Manifesta Blue Aventurine

The dial is cut from natural  Manifesta Watch blue aventurine, one of the rarest varieties of quartz in existence. The name traces back to the Italian a ventura, meaning by chance, after an 18th-century Venetian glassmaker accidentally discovered that mineral particles falling into molten glass created an unexpected shimmer. The natural stone has a similar origin story: formed over millions of years under extreme geological pressure, its optical character comes from inclusions of dumortierite locked inside the quartz. This effect, called aventurescence, cannot be replicated synthetically with the same result. Every piece of stone produces a different pattern. In flat light, the dial reads deep navy. Move your wrist and it opens into shifting blue, the inclusions catching and redistributing light in a way that changes depending on where you are and what surrounds you.

That stone sits behind a sapphire crystal, rated 9 on the Mohs hardness scale, second only to diamond, and effectively scratch-proof under normal daily wear. The case is machined from 316L stainless steel, the same grade used in surgical implants, chosen for its corrosion resistance and the fact that it won't react with skin over long-term wear. The movement inside is an automatic RSGA01, self-winding through the motion of the wrist, no battery, no external power source. The rotor spins with movement and transfers energy to the mainspring, which releases it in controlled increments through the gear train. An open-heart display makes part of the movement visible through the dial, so the engineering sits alongside the stone rather than hiding behind it.

Every Rotoris Manifesta watch is individually numbered, with total production across the entire lineup capped. This isn't a figure cited for marketing effect. It's how the brand controls quality at the assembly stage, and why each piece ships with documentation specific to its number. You are not buying a model. You are buying a particular object that exists once.

Why It Makes Sense

Vivek Oberoi has collected watches for years. When he saw Rotoris, his reaction, in his own words, was that he had to pause. Not because the product was flashy, but because the thinking behind it was serious. Limited production. A defined community of owners.

That is the same framework he applies when he backs a company. He said it plainly about Rotoris in his recent Linkedin post: “As an investor, I look for founders who are playing a long-term game. Aakash Anand is building Rotoris for the next generation, not just the next drop.”

The Blue Aventurine in Rotoris Manifesta Watch is a stone formed entirely by geological accident, over an incomprehensible stretch of time, that only fully reveals its character under the right conditions. Vivek Oberoi is a man whose actual depth as an investor, a builder, and a philanthropist mostly sits beneath the surface of how he is publicly understood. The watch didn't need to be chosen for symbolic reasons. But it is hard to look at the pairing and argue it's a coincidence.

Some people buy watches to signal where they have arrived. Some buy them because they understand what's inside. Vivek Oberoi already knew what was inside Rotoris before he ever wore one. He had read the business, met the team, and backed the vision with his own money. The Rotoris Manifesta Watch Blue Aventurine on his wrist isn't a statement. It's just consistent.