The Ultimate 2025 Destinations (With a Touch of Horological Glam & Grooves)
Imagine this: the purr of a V12 engine echoing off Italian villas, your Leica slung across your shoulder catching reflections off chrome bumpers, while a new Panda Bear track floats through your noise-canceling headphones. Welcome to 2025, where your road trip dreams meet gallery-worthy frames, and your wrist ticks with style straight out of Watches and Wonders Geneva.
Let’s hit the road — or the runway — and explore the must-visit hotspots of the year.
🇮🇹 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este
Lake Como, Italy
📸 Rating: Bellissimo. Driving Gloves Required.
It’s not just a car show, darling. It’s a curated masterpiece of motoring history. Every May, vintage Ferraris, coachbuilt Bugattis, and art-deco motorcycles line up lakeside under the watchful eyes of design royalty. The backdrop? The kind of place where James Bond would sip an espresso and you’d accidentally spend €17 on gelato and not regret a thing.
Pro tip: Golden hour over Lake Como? That’s your album cover shot. And your new dating app profile pic.
Playlist Pairing:
🎵 Ichiko Aoba – “Luminescent Creatures”
Gentle, dreamy acoustic tracks to match the lake’s reflective mood.
Required timepiece: UnimaticUC1
The UC1 is part of Unimatic's Classic Series, which features an easy-to-read dial in matte black with Super-LumiNova C3 in light green for the best possible performance in all conditions. The permanent series is a functional evolution of the Unimatic references and is considered the archetype of the ideal performance timepiece. It is distinguished by the new CLASSIC lettering on the dial as well as on the screw-down case back, engraved with the 'Rosa dei Venti' diagram.
🇬🇧 Goodwood Revival
West Sussex, UK
📸 Rating: Tweed-Laden Time Machine
Three words: Racing. In. Waistcoats.
Where else can you watch a 1964 Cobra go full throttle while surrounded by crowds dressed like it’s Churchill’s third term in office? The Goodwood Revival is a cinematic throwback with the engines to match. Bring your best vintage lens — and maybe a cravat.
Fun fact: The air smells like burnt rubber and Earl Grey.
Playlist Pairing:
🎵 Marie Davidson – “City of Clowns”
It’s gritty, it’s electronic, it’s weird — like if Kraftwerk headlined Downton Abbey.
Required timepiece: CWC British Military G10 Quartz Watch
In 1980, the first quartz watch issued to British Forces was made by CWC. The old logo was used for a couple of years and was changed to the oval logo in 1982. The early G10s were nicknamed Fatboy as the case was deeper than the current models due to earlier deeper movements.
British Motor Show
Farnborough, UK | Aug 15–17, 2025
📸 Rating: Tech Meets Torque
For those who prefer torque specs over tea parties. Expect shiny EVs, next-gen hypercars, and every automotive innovation that’ll make your inner mechanic do backflips. Also: plenty of motion-blur photo ops with concept cars moving under cool, moody lighting.
Shooting tip: Set that shutter speed low, and let those headlights streak like Tron just happened.
Playlist Pairing:
🎵 Lady Gaga – “MAYHEM”
Futuristic pop anthems for your cyberpunk-leaning soul.
Required timepiece: Mr Jones Watches A perfectly useless afternoon
This unique watch was designed by Kristof Devos as a gentle reminder to take it easy and spend time enjoying the moment.
The character lounging in the pool was created to inspire you to relax and to realise that time spent resting, is time well spent.
How to read the time:
- The relaxed figure's stretched leg shows the hour
- The tiny plastic duck floats around to show you the minutes.
🏙️ Tokyo, Japan
📸 Rating: Neon Samurai Vibes
It’s the kind of place where you shoot a thousand photos before breakfast. Shibuya’s electric chaos, Harajuku’s pastel rebels, and quiet temples nestled between skyscrapers — Tokyo is a photographer’s fever dream. And if you’re into JDM cars? Buckle up.
Insider tip: Wander into Daikoku PA on a Saturday night. You'll thank me later.
Playlist Pairing:
🎵 Panda Bear – “Sinister Grift”
Psychedelic beats to match Shinjuku’s 3AM glow.
Required timepiece: Casio A168WEM-1EF
A classic CASIO design, part of the Vintage Retro Collection. This timepiece features a digital display, an Illuminator, daily alarm, and stopwatch. Resistant to minor splashing and has a black mirror face and shiny silver coloured bracelet.
Whether you're shooting long exposures of midnight street races in Tokyo or sipping espresso beside a 1956 Alfa Romeo, 2025 is your year to live like a cinematic icon. The roads are waiting. The lights are glowing. The shutter is calling.
And remember: life’s too short for boring cars, bland playlists, or quartz movements.