At the beginning of 2025, the luxury watchmaking industry experienced significant advancements, with prominent brands unveiling new models, limited editions, and the recreation of iconic timepieces from the past. This resurgence of interest among watch enthusiasts around the world has created a fervent demand for these exquisite timepieces, compelling enthusiasts to acquire them for their personal collections.
The trend of brightly colored dials remains, with blue is the top choice as luxury watchmaking start to release new models in blue tones, as well as the demand for watches with perfectly complications, such as the Jumping Hours, Retrograde and Skeletonized, which are gaining attention from new models who choose to wear them to show their identity and love of the craftsmanship of the watchmaking brand.
Here are some notable timepieces that have been curated to showcase the evolving trends in luxury watch brands for the year 2025.
Sport Watch: Bell & Ross BR-05 Skeleton Arctic Blue
The Bell & Ross sports watch collection, which has been highly recognized over the years, presents the limited edition BR-05 Skeleton Arctic Blue to the challenge of transparency, reflecting true watchmaking expertise.
For this new version, the dial of the BR-05 Skeleton Arctic Blue appears to be carved from a block of ice. The dial features a blue-tinted glass plate, laser engraved with irregular lines that faithfully imitate the cracks found in ice plains. Like frost marking the path of the cracks, a white transfer has been applied by pad printing.
The skeletonisation technique showcases the mechanism by removing the superfluous to reveal only the essential. The open dial consists of a blue glass and a metallic blue flange on which the 12 indices are mounted. Powered by automatic mechanical movement Calibre BR-CAL.322-1 with 54-hour power reserve. The Bell & Ross BR-05 Skeleton Arctic Blue is limited to 250 pieces.
The Fascination in Complication Movement: Bovet Récital 21 Retrograde Perpetual Calendar
Over the past 23 years, BOVET has specialized in the perpetual calendar complication, which is one of the most challenging in the high watchmaking pantheon of complexity. The Swiss watchmaker has incorporated a perpetual calendar with other complications, like in the award-winning Récital 22 Grand Récital and Récital 28 Prowess One.
This year, BOVET introduced a new version of the Récital 21, this time with a sapphire crystal dial available in three captivating hues – green, blue, and smoked. This dial gives the Récital 21 a completely different character – stylish, modern, comfortable and a bit mysterious. The dial provides a window into the inner workings of this high-watchmaking manual-wind movement.
Breguet Marine Tourbillon Equation Marchante 5887
First introduced in 2017, the Marine Tourbillon Equation Marchante 5887 has been the technical icon of the Marine collection, representing the wonder and strength of the platinum material used to protect the complicate movement Caliber 581DPE.
A complication as exceptional as this is mesmerising, the Equation Marchante records the difference between local time – the time that punctuates our daily lives – and solar time – the time dictated by the earth’s rotation relative to the sun. Featuring a perpetual calendar and a tourbillon, this Marine piece is made in platinum, a rare and durable precious metal renowned for its remarkable resistance to corrosion and enduring brilliance.
Breguet‘s experienced watchmakers offer a more complication by boasting 4 hands. Two are classic ones, indicating the hours and minutes for calendar time. Then, there’s the perpetual calendar, with its central retrograde date hand (pointing at an arched date track), and with two windows for the day (between 10 and 11 o’clock) and the month and leap year (between 1 and 2 o’clock). At 7 o’clock, under a transversal bridge and a sapphire crystal is the one-minute tourbillon, housed in a titanium cage and running at a fast frequency of 4Hz. There’s also a discreet power reserve indicator between 7 and 8.30 o’clock.
The High Jewelry Watch: Franck Muller Round Skeleton Baguette 31
In its quest for modern yet timeless creations, Franck Muller offers an iconic piece as its High Jewellery launch for 2024: the Round Skeleton Baguette in 31mm, an exceptional collection set with baguette diamonds or precious gems, reflecting the perfect marriage between the world of fine jewelry and Haute Horlogerie.
The new timepiece is the latest addition to the repertoire of Round Skeletons which are already available in 39 mm and 42 mm. In this Asia Pacific Exclusive collection, diamonds are also seamlessly set on the sides of the bezel and case. The collection also boasts the smallest skeleton movement ever manufactured by Frank Muller.
The Limited Edition: All-Blue Titanium Bvlgari Octo Finissimo x Laurent Grasso Edition
Once again, Bvlgari has created a timepiece in collaboration with a famous artist, this time with French artist Laurent Grasso. Bvlgari has given a creative spin to its mighty Octo Finissimo. The blue PVD-coated titanium case is fitted with a blue PVD-coated dial finished with an evanescent blue, white and pink cloud created by Grasso.
The dreamy, iridescent image captures Grasso’s fascination with electromagnetic energy and paranormal phenomena and is said to question the foundation of time and space. Limited to 200 pieces, it’s powered by Bulgari’s ultra-thin micro-rotor automatic BVL 138 calibre.
Chopard x ART in Time team Alpine Eagle his & hers
Photo by ART in TIME
Chopard x Art in Time presents an exclusive Alpine Eagle 41 XPS His & Hers Chameleon Set, limited to only 15 sets, celebrating shared craftsmanship and the beauty of unity. There is a 41 mm model for his and a 36 mm model for hers, to embody Chopard’s rich heritage and innovative approach to design. At the heart of this collection is the enchanting “chameleon” dial, shifting between shades of blue and violet, symbolizing the dynamic nature of relationships.
The his model will be made of Chopard’s exclusive Lucent Steel alloy made from 80 percent recycled materials and will be powered by the automatic L.U.C 96.40-L movement with 65-hour power reserve, and for her model made of stainless steel and features an 18-carat ethical white gold bezel adorned with 36 baguette-cut sapphires, driven by Chopard 09.01-C automatic movement and 42 hours of power reserve.
The Heritage: OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M (Titanium/Bronze Gold)
The latest OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M model is crafted in bronze gold and grade 2 titanium with a choice of two strap designs, and is sure to impress any James Bond fan.
The OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M is a shift away from the traditional ceramic style of the dive watch, and instead, has a more vintage look while also offering OMEGA fans a different metal option from stainless steel. Rather than steel, the latest OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M has a 42mm brushed case that’s made from grade 2 titanium, a lightweight material that’s built to withstand extreme temperatures.
The OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M is powered by the Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8806 movement that’s visible through the domed sapphire crystal caseback. The caseback is the same as the 007 edition, tying back in the James Bond-inspired references and features.
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