There’s a burst of luminous colour in watch design at the moment, with sober blue and black dials conspicuously absent from recent launches. The luminescent watches trend has been bubbling up over the last year or so but now seems to have hit full Night Fever mode, as a number of the watches intended for this autumn’s now postponed Only Watch sale took the event’s ‘rainbow’ theme to heart.
Behind the trend are two developments: the creation of new luminous pigments, and renewed interest in the sort of post-modern Memphis vibe that informed early Swatch designs and the watches of Alain Silberstein (who’s having something of a revival himself).
