5 Luxury Watches That Deserve a Place on Your Wrist This Summer

Summer asks more of a watch than most seasons do. All the heat and the general informality of the season demand a timepiece that can move from morning to evening without losing its credibility. It is also, historically, the season that produces some of the most interesting releases. Why, you ask? Well, the watch brands now know that a timepiece worn on a holiday or seen on a wrist at a beach club does more for a collector’s imagination than any campaign. Below is a list of five watches — all launched within the last 12 months — worth knowing about. 

Tudor Black Bay 54 Lagoon Blue, Ref. M79000-0001

Released in June 2025 expressly for summer, the Black Bay 54 Lagoon Blue is Tudor's most wearable dive watch to date. The case stays at 37mm in diameter and 11.24mm in thickness, with a 46mm lug-to-lug measurement that sits close to the wrist. The Lagoon Blue introduces a sand-textured dial in a soft, icy blue — designed to evoke the surface of open water — swaps the original 2023 Black Bay 54's black aluminium bezel insert for a mirror-polished steel one with sandblasted markers. It comes exclusively on Tudor's five-link Jubilee-style bracelet with a T-Fit micro-adjustment clasp. The COSC-certified MT5400 automatic movement delivers a 70-hour power reserve. Water resistance is 200 metres.

Price: USD 4,350 (approx. INR 3.63 lakh)

Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean, Fourth Generation, Orange Ceramic

Launched in November 2025 to mark the collection's 20th anniversary, the fourth-generation Planet Ocean is a full redesign, not a refresh. The 42mm case is now 13.79mm thick — more than 2mm slimmer than the previous generation — achieved through a two-part construction combining an outer stainless steel case with an inner titanium ring. The helium escape valve has been removed, the date window eliminated, and the lug architecture is entirely new. Inside, the Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8912 is METAS-certified, resistant to magnetic fields of 15,000 gauss, and delivers a 60-hour power reserve. Water resistance is 600 metres. The orange variant — the most relevant for summer — uses a vivid orange ceramic bezel that Omega describes as harder to produce than the black or blue versions, which accounts for the premium. The broad-arrow hands and Arabic numerals at cardinal hours are carried over from the original 2005 design.

Price: USD 9,500 on rubber strap (approx. INR 7.93 lakh)

IWC Ingenieur Automatic 42 Dark Olive Green Ceramic, Ref. IW338902

Unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva in April 2026, the Ingenieur Automatic 42 in dark olive green ceramic is the first time IWC has executed the Gérald Genta-derived integrated bracelet design in a coloured ceramic. IWC has been working with zirconium oxide ceramic since 1986 — the material registers approximately 1,300 on the Vickers hardness scale and can only be machined using diamond tools after sintering. The olive green tone is achieved by blending zirconium oxide with metallic oxides, a process that requires complete control since the colour only stabilises during sintering. The 42mm case, bezel, caseback ring, crown guards, and integrated bracelet are all produced in this ceramic. The 18k Armor Gold bezel screws and solid 18k 5N gold crown provide warm contrast against the olive. The gold-stamped Grid dial carries gold-plated hands and indices filled with Super-LumiNova. The movement is the in-house Calibre 82110 with a Pellaton winding system and a 60-hour power reserve.

Price: USD 23,800 (approx. INR 19.87 lakh)

Rolex Oyster Perpetual 36 Jubilee Motif Dial, Ref. 126000

Released at Watches and Wonders Geneva in April 2026 to mark the centenary of the Oyster case, the Oyster Perpetual 36 with a multicoloured Jubilee motif dial is the most talked-about Rolex of the year. No fewer than ten colours of lacquer are applied in succession to recreate the historic Jubilee pattern, spelling out R-O-L-E-X across the dial in high-contrast colourplay. The colours are applied one after the other, not simultaneously, requiring extreme precision at every stage. The 36mm Oystersteel case houses the Calibre 3230 with Chronergy escapement, a Parachrom hairspring, Paraflex shock absorbers, and a 70-hour power reserve. Water resistance is 100 metres. The retail price is identical to all other Oyster Perpetual 36 colourways despite the significantly more complex dial production. Availability, as with all special-dial Oyster Perpetuals, will be tightly constrained.

Price: USD 6,750 (approx. INR 5.64 lakh)

Titan Stellar Ice Meteorite, Ref. 90110SM01

The only Indian watch on this list, and the one with the most extraordinary raw material. The dial is made from authentic Muonionalusta meteorite — a fragment that fell in northern Sweden approximately 800,000 to one million years ago and is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, dating to the formation of the solar system. When cut and acid-etched, its cross-section reveals the Widmanstätten pattern, a crystalline structure that forms only over millions of years of slow cooling in space and cannot be replicated artificially. On the Stellar Ice, the meteorite dial is treated with an icy blue plating, and an open-heart aperture reveals the in-house automatic movement below. The movement is the proprietary 7AC0 calibre with 22 jewels, a 40-hour power reserve, and an accuracy of minus 10 to plus 30 seconds per day. The 44mm stainless steel case is 14.1mm thick, with a curved sapphire crystal carrying a three-layer anti-reflective coating and an exhibition caseback with a custom rotor. Water resistance is 5 ATM. Limited to 500 pieces.

Price: INR 1,39,995