The best hotels for luxury watch shopping around the world in 2024

Shopping for a new luxury watch? Wind your way through the world’s ultimate travel destinations for browsing elite timepieces.We’ve rounded up a guide to the best new and notable hotels in each region for 2024 — along with the chic watches you’ll be inspired to buy while you’re there.Bulgari may not be the only luxury watch brand to venture into hospitality, but it’s likely the OG.Last year, the chainlet of Bulgari Hotels & Resorts debuted the brand’s first hotel in Rome, near the circa-1905 flagship on Via dei Condotti.The 114-room retreat is appropriately opulent, from three-Michelin-star chef Niko Romito’s restaurant to the 16,000-square-foot spa, which takes cues from ancient Roman baths.

Set an alarm for 5 p.m.to enjoy bubbles delivered by trolley in the new Champagne Bar.A stroll away, almost close enough to throw a coin into the Trevi fountain, sits the new Palazzo Talìa.

Designed by film director Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me By Your Name”), the 26-room, 16th-century former college is as dramatic and immersive as his Italy-based silver screen gems.Those ceiling frescoes, leather-bound stair rails and plush custom runners are just begging visitors to see with their hands.Don’t miss the mirror-lined bar, whose lighting makes everyone look like a movie star.The debut of Aman Resorts’ new brand, Janu, gives travelers another reason to flock to the ever-popular Japanese capital.Designed by Jean-Michel Gathy, who’s practically Aman’s in-house architect, the hotel’s curvilinear tower in the Azabudai Hills weaves together Eastern and Western sensibilities, starting with the modern interpretation of traditional shimenawa decorations at the entrance, through the Italian, French and Cantonese dining concepts, and up to the 122 expansive rooms, whose bedside lightboxes reveal a French bell shade only when illuminated.It’s peak Nippon style — addictive to anyone who collects those head-turning Grand Seiko watches.Tick, tock, horologo...