These five smartwatches are chic and fashionable enough for you to ditch your regular luxury watch.

Apple 3 Watch

It is official: the Apple smartwatch has had a terrible effect on the uber-luxurious Swiss watch industry. Data released by US-based UBS, a financial analysis company, reveals that while the sales of Apple watches have steadily increased, those of the traditional luxury watches have steadily declined. The market for smartwatches is expected to reach $32.9 billion globally by 2020.

There are several smartwatches in the market, besides Apple, including some by traditional watchmakers, most of them 2018 launches. While most smartwatches resemble fitness trackers, some have also incorporated style and glamour into their highly functional watches. Many smartwatches emulate fitness trackers, offering abilities such as heart rate monitoring, GPS and water resistance. Others have gone down a luxury route, trying to match the style of traditional timepieces. Here are some we think make the cut.

Louis Vuitton Tambour Horizon

Louis Vuitton brings its iconic colored stripes and initials, which it uses on its bag, onto the smart watches. However the brand goes one step further by offering several bespoke options too. So you can ask for Monogram Eclipse, Damier Azur, Damier Graphite – all the House canvases to personalize your watch. Further, buyers can choose the apps and the specific information they want displayed on their watch face, or have Louis Vuitton customise My 24 Hours watch face inspired by their designs created for personalizing customers’ luggage, even as it simultaneously displays the 24 time zones. Among the other amazing information that this smartwatch offers you: if you are catching a flight, it will display the terminal, boarding gate, flight-time remaining, and much more on the watch face.

Apple Watch Series 3

It incorporates features of WatchOS 4, which are useful when you are tracking your fitness levels while running and swimming. A heart rate monitor helps you plug it into a variety of gym equipment, which means you can preserve your data to analyze and change your workout patterns. Like any smartwatch, you can send out emails and text messages. And, above all, it comes with its own 4G connection.

Apple x Hermes

Apple x Hermes

 

The two big brands, one a giant French luxury brand and the other a tech brand, came together to launch a watch that’s as glamorous as it is technically proficient. Two years on, they continue to tweak the timepiece for avid consumers interested in both fashion and technology. Hermès have announced a new, expanded lineup of Apple Watch for 2018. For the first time it has included separate bands you can add to your existing Watch collection, which will be available April 19 onwards. Featuring built-in cellular technology, handcrafted leather bands from Hermès, and an additional Apple-designed watch face inspired by the classic Hermès Carrick font, it’s the ultimate tool for the tech-savvy consumer. The new Noir Gala watch strap taps into the world of automobile racing, and references the design of the classic Hermès driving glove.

Montblanc Summit Smartwatch

Montblanc Summit Smartwatch

This absolutely stunning looking smartwatch is powered by Android Wear 2. It lets you check your notifications at a glance and comes pre-loaded with fitness and travel apps. Mix and match from interchangeable faces and smart leather or rubber straps to tailor its look. The watch’s classic vintage design is inspired by the award-winning Montblanc 1858 collection. The watch has a 46 mm case size and is slim at 12.5 mm. Its case, bezel and crown are crafted out of black PVD-coated stainless steel. There is a domed and scratch-resistant sapphire crystal covers an AMOLED display with 400×400 resolution and multi-touch recognition. You can personalize your watch with easily exchangeable straps and a collection of Montblanc watch faces. Voice translation, navigation and boarding pass allows you to travel comfortably, while the integrated heart rate monitor, altimeter and fitness tracking sensors helps you track your fitness levels. Among its pre-loaded apps are Runtastic, Uber and Foursquare. The watch allows you to play and control music from your wrist, has a 4 GB memory to download songs and stream to Bluetooth headphones.

Connected by Fredrique Constant

Fredrique Constant

This beautiful watch has a combination of apps for activity tracking, sleep monitoring, and sleep cycle alarms, besides apps that track your emails and text messages. Via the Track app, each physical activity you are involved in is individually stored and enables detailed analysis of your activities via the App. Its built-in accelerator monitors movement and sleep. Paired with the MMT-365 app the watch will give you detailed sleep patterns and even gives you a nudge when it’s time to hit the gym. Cloud storage and a world timer are the icing on this Frederique Constant cake. The good thing about this watch: with a classic arm movement face, Frederique Constant’s stunning Horological Smartwatch appears like its other chic timepieces.

Huawei Watch 2

Huawei’s smartwatch

Huawei’s smartwatch offering comes in the form of the Watch 2, an Android-powered smartwatch from Chinese smartphone maker Huawei. For set up you will have to download Huawei’s own watch apps to link to the smartwatch. It comes with a heartrate monitor, plenty of customizable watch faces and can work with apps like Facebook Messenger, Uber and more. Though very bulky to look at, Huawei’s Wear app lets you track your fitness tracking.