What Are The Top Three Smart Watches For 2025?

Smart watches have been growing in popularity since their launch around 15 years ago. Not only does wearable technology make it easier to stay connected with the world, but they have also become an essential piece of kit for any fitness fanatic. 

Here, we take a look at the top three smart and sports watches of 2025 to make it easier for you to choose the right device for you. 

Stylish first smartwatch

Smart watches can be exceptionally useful, with some providing notifications on appointments, alarms, sleep quality, heart rate, weather, news, messages, photos, and much more, but lots of people do not need their timepiece to do all this. 

What’s more, they want their watch to look like just that - a watch, and not a mini tablet on their wrist. This is especially important if they want to continue wearing a smartwatch to a special event like a wedding or corporate function, or they simply want to look smart at work. 

This is where the Samsung Galaxy Watch6 Classic watch comes in, as its circular face and silver band make it look like a stylish analogue watch. 

However, it also has features like heart rate monitor, touchscreen, quality of sleep, accelerometer, distance travelled, calories burned, SMS notifications, blood pressure monitor, music player, GPS, and call notifications. 

With a RAM capacity of 2048MB, memory of 16GB and Bluetooth and WiFi connections, this is a popular timepiece that looks great from day to night. 

Ultimate Apple watch

Apple has taken over the technology world in many areas, from tablets to phones, and it also wants a slice of the smartwatch pie, offering a huge number of exciting features for wearers.

The Apple Watch Ultra 2GPS + Cellular is the ultimate smartwatch from the brand, and offers water resistance of up to 100m, gyroscope, heart rate monitor, ambient light sensor, altimeter, e-mail, built-in microphone and speaker, accelerometer, and multisport mode. 

It also shows quality of sleep, Siri virtual assistant, activity tracker, compass, blood oxygen sensor and SOS alert function, skin temperature sensor, workout tracking, virtual pacer function, training programmes, alarms, water temperature sensor, low cardio notifications, accessibility features, sleep apnoea detection, and precision finding.

There is little this watch cannot do, so anyone looking for a general smart watch that is also great for sports, this could be it. 

Excellent for sports fans

Garmin is renowned for making excellent sports watches, so if you’re searching for a timepiece that can improve your performance and elevate your fitness, look no further than the Garmin Fenix 8.

This has been billed for “serious athletes and adventurers who want to push beyond their limits”, and this is because it offers a stress monitoring function, blood oxygen sensor, virtual racer function, virtual partner function, training effect measurement, time/distance alert, sun and moon information, a stop watch and running dynamics.

It also shows recovery time suggestions, race predictions, interval training tools, an internal speaker and mic, a built-in LED torch, and a battery life of up to two weeks. 

The Garmin Fenix 8 is also waterproof up to 40m, so is suitable for diving.