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Used for: More than a year
GPS wanders under tree cover more than it should
Woodland is the one consistent flaw, and that is after a year and a half of running with it. On open road and moor it is faultless, distances within 15 metres of the markers every time. The moment the canopy closes over, the track starts drifting off to one side and the pace on the screen goes with it. It is not a disaster, because the total distance comes out about right by the end, but on the forest loop the mile splits are fiction and I have given up looking at them mid-run.
Used for: Less than a month
Enormous battery and a screen you can actually read
Sleep tracking wants a strap you can bear overnight
First impressions are that the battery claims are, for once, conservative. Two days of heavy use with tracked walks and the always-on display, and it was still above 50 per cent, which I have never seen from a watch before. The complication is sleeping in it. To get the sleep tracking you have to wear it overnight, and the ocean band is far too warm and far too stiff for that. I have bought a fabric loop, which is comfortable, and so the watch that cost a great deal now comes with a strap I do not use. The rest is straightforward. The screen is readable everywhere, the button is genuinely handy, and the tracking has been accurate on everything I can check against. Four stars because a watch at this money should arrive with a strap you can wear for the whole twenty-four hours.
Used for: More than a year
The build has taken everything I have thrown at it
Nothing wrong with how it is made, but I have never once opened the dive app or set a waypoint, and a far cheaper watch would have done everything I actually do with it
Used for: 1–3 months
My wrist reacted to the supplied band
My skin came up badly under the band, so it now gets worn over a thin sleeve instead
Used for: 3–6 months
The action button is the best thing added in years
The bezel picks up marks from door frames
One press starts the walk, another marks a lap, and no wet fingers go anywhere near the screen. Small change, and I use it every single day!
Used for: 1–3 months
The one to buy if you walk anywhere without a signal
Bought it for the hills and the two things that matter up there both do their job. The screen is readable in flat white cloud and in bright sun without a hand over it, and the battery does a full weekend of tracked walking with the map open more than it needs to be. Backtrack turned a genuinely worrying 20 minutes into a boring one when the path vanished into mist above Kirkstone, and that alone has paid for the thing!
Used for: 3–6 months
Three days a charge even with the display always on
The size means it snags on everything
The always-on display was the thing I expected to cost me a day of battery and it simply has not, which changed my mind about leaving it switched on. It still catches on every jumper sleeve in the house.
Used for: 1–3 months
The hardware is beyond reproach
The account nagging in the phone app is relentless
Three stars is about the experience rather than the watch. The watch is superb. Getting to the point of wearing it involved an account, a second account for the fitness side, a subscription offer I did not want, and then a fortnight of the phone reminding me about the subscription offer I did not want. After that comes the permission round. Location, health, motion, notifications, each one asked separately and some of them twice, and one reset itself after an update and had to be granted all over again. None of this makes it worse at being a watch. The battery is remarkable, the screen is the best I have seen on a wrist, and the tracking is accurate. It is that somewhere between buying the thing and using it there is an afternoon of being sold to, and at this money that should not be part of the deal.
Used for: Less than a month
Screen is readable in full sun
Wants a night on the charger before you start
Bright enough that the numbers stay readable at midday without cupping a hand over it!
Used for: More than a year
It has survived building work without a mark
Worn on site every day for a year, in cement dust, in rain, and knocked against scaffolding more times than I could count, and the glass has not chipped. The titanium has a couple of shiny patches along one edge and that is the sum of the damage. The practical wins on a site are the ones nobody writes about. Timers on the wrist with gloves on, calls answered without digging a phone out of a jacket, and the torch on the button when the temporary lighting drops out. The siren has cleared a room once, which was funny afterwards. Four rather than five only because it will not go under a work cuff in winter and ends up worn over the sleeve, which looks ridiculous. Everything else has been exactly right for the job.
Used for: 6–12 months
The size makes it a poor everyday watch on a slim wrist
Three stars, and this is a warning about the size rather than a complaint about the quality. Go and hold one before ordering, because photographs do not convey it. On a slim wrist it sits proud of the bone on both sides and the case edge presses in when you bend your hand back. In practice that means it comes off for anything with a cuff, it comes off at the gym because it fouls the bar, and it comes off at night because I cannot sleep with that much metal against my arm. A watch you keep taking off cannot track much of anything, so the sleep data is patchy and the activity rings are a work of fiction. Eight months in I still admire the thing. The screen is superb, the battery genuinely is three days, and the build will see me out. I simply bought the wrong size of watch for the arm I have, and I would rather somebody had told me that beforehand.