Trends in fashionable women’s watches 2021–2022

Mod­ern wom­en’s watch­es are the high­light of the image, an expres­sion of indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, style and char­ac­ter, a kind of vis­it­ing card of the own­er. They are once again at the peak of pop­u­lar­i­ty — this is one of the main fash­ion trends among dec­o­ra­tive acces­sories in mid-2021. Styl­ists, design­ers and fash­ion cou­turi­ers pre­dict that it will not only move into 2022, but will dom­i­nate the next 5 years. What wom­en’s styl­ish watch­es in 2021 are most in demand among styl­ish busi­ness women, glam­orous ladies and just women and girls who love high-qual­i­ty and styl­ish things — read in this arti­cle.

The main trends of fashionable women’s watches in 2021

This year, bracelet watch­es are still in fash­ion, rich­ly dec­o­rat­ed with crys­tals both around the cir­cum­fer­ence of the case and on the dial itself. But the most fash­ion­able wom­en’s watch­es of 2021 are XXL mod­els with a gold strap or men’s style. They are called “boyfriend”.

An inter­est­ing trend was the tri­umphant return to fash­ion of prod­ucts in the Art Deco style and with an unusu­al indi­ca­tion of the phas­es of the moon and the star­ry sky on the dial. In spring and sum­mer, min­i­mal­ist mod­els in pas­tel col­ors were in favor, in win­ter — dark ones.

How­ev­er, in street style, now fash­ion­able wom­en’s watch­es 2021 should be notice­able, espe­cial­ly their large 3/4‑width wrist cas­es. Again, girls and women are hap­py to wear watch com­bi­na­tions with bracelets and straps. Not nec­es­sar­i­ly on the wrist, that is, on the arm, but also on the sleeve of a sweater, blouse or glove.

Classic fashion watch for women 2021

Aside from being con­sid­ered a pres­tige acces­so­ry or piece of jew­el­ry, the main focus of this and the next fash­ion sea­son will be on its func­tion­al­i­ty, read­able num­bers and wear­a­bil­i­ty.

Casu­al wear­ers should choose trendy wom­en’s watch­es with a medi­um or large case, a sim­ple dial design, in light or dark, mut­ed col­ors, with a leather strap. They will look styl­ish and appro­pri­ate every­where — at work, on a walk, shop­ping or in a restau­rant. If the work is relat­ed to the for­mal style, then the afore­men­tioned clas­sic is the best solu­tion that is not sub­ject to the main sea­son­al trends. In a few years, it will look as good as on the day of pur­chase. Just out of time. This is a prof­itable invest­ment.

How­ev­er, the clas­sic look does not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean that the great­est con­ve­nience in a watch will be only with a sec­ond hand and numer­als (Ara­bic or Roman).

If you like mod­ern solu­tions or need them in every­day life, this is not nec­es­sar­i­ly a phone or tablet. A nov­el­ty of recent years is wom­en’s watch­es with many use­ful func­tions or with par­tial smart prop­er­ties (hybrid), or the smart watch itself. Through Blue­tooth con­nec­tion, the smart watch will auto­mat­i­cal­ly syn­chro­nize the time with your smart­phone, alarm phone calls, remind you of appoint­ments, etc.

Those who are phys­i­cal­ly active should choose a more sporty option. Then the best solu­tion would be mod­els with rub­ber or sil­i­cone straps. They are usu­al­ly equipped with a stop­watch func­tion, lights and water­proof pro­tec­tion, which allows you to swim at a depth of less than 50 m. A des­ig­na­tion like “30 m” does not indi­cate depth at all! In prac­tice, this means resis­tance to acci­den­tal wet­ness in the rain. 50 m gives resis­tance to immer­sion in water, bathing in a bath, but div­ing to a depth in such a watch is not rec­om­mend­ed. Only at a mark of 100 m can you con­fi­dent­ly swim, and 200 m — scu­ba dive.

The main fashion trends of women’s decorative watches

Dec­o­ra­tive watch­es are the solu­tion for those women who do not like a lot of jew­el­ry, but pre­fer to wear one ele­ment that sub­tly empha­sizes their fem­i­nin­i­ty. If they are to be strict­ly dec­o­ra­tive, then addi­tion­al func­tions are not tak­en into account when choos­ing them, but only the effect that they cre­ate in com­bi­na­tion with clothes and bracelets.

In 2021, wom­en’s watch­es are again rel­e­vant with the addi­tion of pre­cious stones on the rim, strap and on the dial itself, which is not always well read. Such dec­o­ra­tive prod­ucts have a dual func­tion­al­i­ty. They replace or com­ple­ment jew­el­ry.

Luxurious models of women’s watches in the prestigious fashion of 2021

Pre­vi­ous­ly, sta­tus acces­sories were con­sid­ered the pre­rog­a­tive of men, but this trend is increas­ing­ly notice­able among women. For them, too, brand aware­ness and the lat­est first-class design have become the main ones. Trends in this area have always been dic­tat­ed by lux­u­ry brands. They most often focus on what is asso­ci­at­ed with the Swiss watch indus­try — on the demon­stra­tion of tra­di­tion­al craft meth­ods.

What women’s watches are now in fashion in terms of functionality?

Mechanism

Quartz or bat­tery move­ments have been pop­u­lar since the last cen­tu­ry. They are easy to rec­og­nize by the jump­ing sec­ond hand (smooth rota­tion is the lot of mechan­i­cal mod­els). They are rel­a­tive­ly accu­rate and don’t need to be wound, but it’s worth using good qual­i­ty bat­ter­ies so you don’t have to change them every year.

Clas­si­cal (mechan­i­cal) — are divid­ed into mech­a­nisms with man­u­al wind­ing and auto­mat­ic. If you don’t like hand-wound mod­els, which are char­ac­ter­ized by small­er or larg­er devi­a­tions in read­ings, you should pay atten­tion to auto­mat­ic move­ments.
This type of watch draws ener­gy from wrist move­ments. The obvi­ous con­di­tion for their good work is reg­u­lar wear, and in some mod­els addi­tion­al wind­ing or the use of a rotomat. This is a timer placed in the drum. It rotates around its axis with giv­en cycles. This winds up the dri­ve spring, which keeps the move­ment run­ning con­tin­u­ous­ly. A self-wind­ing watch rotates a rotor that stretch­es the main­spring as the hand moves. If you don’t wear them, they will stop on their own after a while. In the lat­ter case, reset­ting the timer on its own can cause mal­func­tions in the mech­a­nism.

Solar mech­a­nisms and their more advanced Eco-Dri­ve ver­sions from renowned brand Cit­i­zen can gen­er­ate pow­er from any source of light — nat­ur­al or arti­fi­cial, bright, dim, even weak — to keep the watch run­ning with­out the need to change bat­ter­ies. They are nor­mal enough to wear a watch on your wrist — they will be charged using light. After being under sun­light for 8 hours, the mech­a­nism will work for more than six months. The pow­er sav­ing fea­ture in total dark­ness allows the clock to run in the back­ground. Time is still accu­rate­ly mea­sured, the clock is acti­vat­ed after catch­ing the first rays of light and shows accu­rate read­ings.

Envelope and shield (frame)

The most pop­u­lar are round enve­lope mech­a­nisms. But they make rec­tan­gu­lar, square, oval and non-stan­dard shapes. Usu­al­ly envelopes and shields are made from the same mate­ri­als as bracelets. On the back cov­er (or buck­le) of some mod­els, an engrav­ing or logo is applied if the watch is brand­ed, cor­po­rate or pur­chased as a spe­cial gift. Watch­es with a rec­tan­gu­lar or square case have a geo­met­ric shape that attracts atten­tion, they are fash­ion­able this sea­son and styl­ists pre­dict that they will be pop­u­lar for a long time.

Strap or bracelet

Ele­gant belt made of leather or eco-leather. This is one of the most con­ve­nient options. It is suit­able for both work and every­day wear. Does­n’t snag or tear clothes. If nec­es­sary, it can be eas­i­ly and quick­ly changed to anoth­er. But the leather strap has its draw­backs:

• he does­n’t like water
• absorbs sweat
• dis­col­ors eas­i­ly,
• may need to be replaced after 2–3 sea­sons.

In addi­tion to leather, belts can be made of sil­i­cone, rub­ber and car­bon fiber. When choos­ing a watch strap, the shade is impor­tant, which should be as close as pos­si­ble to the col­or of oth­er items of cloth­ing. A brown leather watch strap, com­bined with the col­or of a hand­bag, trouser belt or shoes, will make the image har­mo­nious.

A bracelet is the best solu­tion for those who need a styl­ish acces­so­ry. It is durable and has a vari­ety of designs. It is made from stain­less steel, tita­ni­um, moth­er-of-pearl, plas­tic or ceram­ic (light and very durable).
Among the inter­est­ing wom­en’s solu­tions for the 2021 watch in the pho­to in many fash­ion mag­a­zines is a chain option or a rib­bon tie.
Mod­els with leather straps are suit­able for work. With chain bracelets — for going to the the­ater. Sports — for a trip to the moun­tains.

Dial color

A dark blue or sky dial will add casu­al and ver­sa­til­i­ty to your look. Pas­tel col­ors — pow­dery pink, mint — will add light­ness and romance to the set. A black watch is an addi­tion to both min­i­mal­ist and glam­orous styles.

Additional functions

These are the options that allow you to mea­sure addi­tion­al para­me­ters:

• alarm;
• auto­mat­ic back­light;
• stop­watch (chrono­graph or tachome­ter);
• seal;
• dual time (elec­tron­ic score­board plus clas­sic dial);
• altime­ter, pedome­ter, calo­rie counter;
• heart rate mon­i­tor;
• Moon phas­es;
• annu­al cal­en­dar;
• EOL (End of Life) is a func­tion of an elec­tron­ic watch that informs about a low bat­tery charge. It man­i­fests itself in the fact that the sec­ond hand moves less fre­quent­ly (for exam­ple, every 4 sec­onds for 4 sec­onds);
• GPS nav­i­ga­tor;
• Eco-Dri­ve — a sys­tem that allows light to pass through the watch face and be con­vert­ed inside into ener­gy that pow­ers the watch;
• rotat­ing bezel (rim) hours;
• fash­ion­able wom­en’s smart watch — many pos­si­bil­i­ties after pair­ing the watch with an iOS or Android device. Activ­i­ty and sleep mon­i­tor­ing, cam­era shut­ter release, moti­va­tor, silent night mode, GPS, weath­er fore­cast, cloud stor­age;
• Alpha GEL — increased resis­tance to shock and vibra­tion;
• anti­mag­net.

Some tips for using and caring for your watch

Do not expose your watch to extreme tem­per­a­tures, espe­cial­ly extreme tem­per­a­ture fluc­tu­a­tions. Do not store them in a place sub­ject to mag­net­ic fields, such as near a radio, TV, com­put­er or smart phone. Putting the clock on the refrig­er­a­tor is also not a good idea.
The mech­a­nism of non-water­proof mod­els may be flood­ed with water even when wash­ing hands.
If a watch with a bat­tery is run­ning low or run­ning late, it may be due to a dirty mech­a­nism. Clean met­al bracelets and water­proof envelopes with a tooth­brush and soapy water, then dry with a soft cloth. Avoid alco­hol-based clean­ers, sol­vents, and house­hold chem­i­cals that may dam­age the mate­r­i­al or fas­ten­ers. Every few years, the mech­a­nism needs to be cleaned and lubri­cat­ed with fresh oil when the dis­play shows an indi­ca­tion error. In the case of expen­sive watch­es of well-known brands, it is best to do this with an offi­cial watch­mak­er.

Now you know what are the best watch­es of 2021, how to choose them, use them and how to care for them. Check out our cat­a­log, choose your favorite mod­el and place an order with deliv­ery through­out Ukraine.