Inhorgenta 2025: Watch trends - more diverse and innovative than ever!
Inhorgenta 2025: Watch trends - more diverse and innovative than ever!
Admittedly, at first glance, a wristwatch offers limited opportunities for designers and engineers to express their creativity. This makes it all the more impressive how creative minds have once again succeeded in conceiving a diverse year of watches par excellence – across all price ranges. We took a look around at Inhorgenta 2025.
Colors – here to stay
Sometime in the last five years, the stalemate finally broke, and colors—regardless of their hue and connotation—found their way onto the dials of the watch world. Whether plain or brightly colored—anything goes.
Colorful watches from Citizen, Mühle-Glashütte, Junghans, Sternglas Tutima Glashütte and Elka Watch.
The dial as a playground
Just a few centimetres of space can be enough to immerse you in a world of its own at a glance: whether in the colourful underwater world, Tolkien's Middle-earth, the art of guilloché or the design philosophy of Alain Silberstein.
Ticking playgrounds by Alexander Shorokhoff, Elka Watch, Zeppelin and Yema.
Time for high flights
Robust, reliable, and easy-to-read wristwatches have enjoyed unwavering popularity among ground crews since their invention to assist pilots in navigation. The first watch of this type is considered to be the "Santos" from 1906, which Cartier developed for the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont. Other manufacturers followed suit and continue to delight aviators and non-aviators alike.
Take-off watches from Aristo, Aviator, Citizen and bauhaus.
Chic & Horlogerie à la Française
Baguette, croissant, and bonjour – as wonderfully melodious as the French language sounds to many, the fashion of the Grande Nation is just as carefree and elegant. This naturally also applies to the watch design, which was on display for the third time in the French Pavilion at Inhorgenta 2025.
Oh la la – watches from France by Briston, Yema, Poiray, Herbelin and Pierre Lannier.
Source of inspiration: past & true classics
Was everything better in the past? Yes and no! But especially when it comes to design, there are true icons that deserve a modernized homage and that continue to win over lovers of good design. But the stories surrounding watchmaking technologies or individual models and brands also continually inspire the creativity of watch designers.
These timepieces from Eberhard & Co., G-SHOCK, Ruhla and Sternglas celebrate the best of the past.
Liabilities – Smart, GPS and Radio
When the first "real" watches that could be connected to smartphones emerged, there was considerable uncertainty and even outright rejection in the watch community. Radio-controlled watches were already established, and GPS watches were already adorning wrists with the blessing of the watch industry. And the original "antichrists," the connected watch and smartwatch, have long since found their universally accepted place in the watch world.
Mandatory wrist devices from Garmin, Ice-Watch, bauhaus, Citizen and Junghans.
Always works: sporty & robust
Timekeeping, watches and sport - that is and remains a never-ending relationship. Even between less active sportspeople and all the more sporty-looking tickers. Not forgetting the functionality, which is used diligently by some and worn on the wrist by others as a possible backup in case of sudden ambition to exercise. Either way, the dynamic look of these watches is transferred to the wearer, which explains their enduring popularity.
Dynamics for the wrist from Junghans, Doxa, Tutima and Citizen.
Dress for Success
Watches make the man. True, a wristwatch isn't really necessary. The correct time is checked on a cell phone or other readily available digital displays. And yet—or perhaps precisely because of this—so-called dress watches are currently enjoying immense popularity. Simple elegance persists unwaveringly in a world of luminous displays—at least on the wrist.
Stylish watches from Mühle-Glashütte, Sternglas and Vulcain.
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