The best watch designs don’t chase trends, they set them. While the industry loves a bold new complication or a headline-grabbing material, it’s often the simplest watches that earn a permanent place in collectors’ hearts.
Some of the watches featured here are thoughtful updates to long-established icons, while others are modern designs with all the hallmarks of future classics: just-so proportions, timeless styling and engineering that should keep on ticking for decades to come.
Whether it’s Cartier refining the Santos, Rolex updating the OG Oyster Perpetual or Omega reimagining its starry Constellation, these are watches built for today, and for the next generation, too.
Take a look at below to see our picks of the latest models that will stand the test of time.
Constellation Observatory
Price: SGD17,609~
One of Omega’s most technically precise watches yet—and it doesn’t even have a seconds hand.
Star Edition
Price: SGD3021~
A charmingly oddball reissue of the 1966 Oris Star that feels both practical and refreshingly affordable.
Oyster Perpetual 41
Price: SGD13,900~
A century on from the Oyster case, Rolex’s simplest style remains one of modern watchmaking’s purest pleasures.
Black Bay 58
Price: SGD7339~
The black-and-gilt details nod to vintage Tudor dive watches, but the Metas-certified Master Chronometer movement underneath is 100 per cent modern.
Santos-Dumont LM
Price: SGD26,244~
Cartier’s genius lies in making something this simple feel impossibly elegant.
