Top ten watch trends to look out for in 2025
Minimalist to maximalist: watches & jewellery editor Hannah Silver’s favourite trends to inform your 2025 purchases
| | Top ten watch trends to look out for in 2025Throughout 2024, new watch releases pushed back against the traditional and, instead, we were treated to the avant-garde, the rethought classic, the maximalist, and the minimalist. Here are watches & jewellery editor Hannah Silver’s favourite trends to inform your 2025 purchases
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| | 01. Minimalist watches – a timeless investmentThese pared-back watches are united by a focus on clean design and technical excellence |
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| | 02. The rise and rise of odd-shaped watchesAsymmetrical, triangular, oval – a host of watch brands are experimenting with unexpected dial shapes. Here are some of the best |
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| | 03. Jewelled watches: classic designs get a glittering makeover
From the Rolex Daytona to the Patek Philippe Aquanaut, take a shine to these jewelled versions of watch-design classics |
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| | 04. Bold watches look on the bright side with an injection of colourVibrant hues rule in this season’s new colourful watches |
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| | 05. Skeletonised watches make a dazzling returnDials open up, letting us enjoy mechanical watchmaking at its intricate finest |
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| | 06. Why are watch designers so drawn to brutalism?Brands seeking ways to break the conservative mould look to brutalist architecture and 1970s design codes |
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| | 07. All that glitters: five gold watchesGold watches from Rolex, Tudor, Cartier, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin are on our radar |
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| | 08. Dark watches show it’s time to embrace an inky paletteDiscover dark and handsome new designs, from brands including Audemars Piguet, Omega, Chanel and Tudor
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| | 09. Futurism is backFuturistic watches are ready to beam us up |
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| | 10. These small watches are mini in size and big on styleIndependent brands and big hitters alike show us that a little less can be more |
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