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Used for: More than a year
Daily wear and it still does what it did at the start
The band collects grit and needs washing
It has been worn every single day since it arrived, swimming included, and the battery is unchanged, still around 60 per cent on the third evening. That is the part I would not have believed when I bought it. The alpine band is the only chore. Grit works its way into the weave from the garden and the gym, and if you do not wash it every fortnight it starts to feel scratchy and looks grey. Easy enough, but it is a job, and a rubber strap never asked me to do it.
Used for: 6–12 months
Too heavy to wear to bed until you are used to it
Took a month of wearing it overnight before I stopped noticing the weight, and now I never do
Used for: 1–3 months
Battery genuinely lasts a weekend away
Far too big for a small wrist
I have put it on the charger three times so far in two weeks, which tells you most of it
Used for: 6–12 months
The only watch I have owned where I stopped thinking about charging
The single biggest change is that charging stopped being a daily event. It goes on the puck for 40 minutes on a Sunday while I read the paper, and that is the whole of my relationship with the charger. Everything else follows from it, because the watch is on my wrist at night, so the sleep data is complete rather than full of gaps where it sat charging. Swimming is the other thing worth calling out. It counts lengths correctly, the screen locks so the water cannot press buttons, and the noise it makes ejecting the water afterwards still amuses me. Eight months of pool sessions and nothing has got inside. Four stars rather than five because the phone app is a mess of accounts and prompts, and because a watch this size is a genuine commitment. It catches on jumper sleeves, it looks daft under a suit, and my wife calls it the diving bell.
Used for: 1–3 months
The depth gauge and the dive app are genuinely useful
The strap gets salty and needs a rinse every time
Snorkelling with it is the thing I never expected to use and now do on every trip, depth and water temperature on the wrist at 6 metres down without a separate gauge. Rinse the strap afterwards, though, or it is stiff by morning.
Used for: More than a year
The titanium has not picked up a single scratch
Still charges slower than the phone does
Knocked against door frames for a year and the case still looks new
Used for: 6–12 months
The siren is louder than you expect and it does carry
Set it off by accident in the kitchen and everybody in the house came running, which told me it would do the job on a hillside. Nine months of walking with it and I have not needed it in anger, but knowing it is there has changed how far I am willing to go on my own.
Used for: Less than a month
Swapped off a Garmin and have not missed a thing
Came off a Garmin that did the tracking slightly better and everything else considerably worse. Messages, calls, paying for the coffee at the end of a run, all of it on one wrist now, and the training numbers are close enough that I cannot tell them apart!
Used for: 6–12 months
Sleep tracking that actually matches how I feel
It nags me about standing up while I am driving
The sleep numbers line up with my own sense of the night, which no band I have worn before ever managed
Used for: Less than a month
Readable in direct sun without lifting a hand to shade it
The action button gets pressed by accident in a coat
Brightness is what sold me in the first week. Out on the water with the sun straight onto it I can read the numbers without shading the screen with my other hand, which every watch before this one needed. In a dark room it drops low enough not to wake anybody. The orange button is a shade too easy to catch. Putting a coat on has started a workout twice now, and I only found out when it congratulated me on 40 minutes of rowing I had not done!
Used for: 3–6 months
The battery changes what you use a watch for
Took it on a four day walk with no charger in the pack, tracking the whole route each day, and it came home with enough left to see me through the drive back. That is the difference between this and every other watch I have worn, and it is the only real reason to pay what it costs. GPS under the tree line is the other half of it. On the forest sections the track comes back as a clean line where the phone in my pocket drew something a drunk might have produced. Elevation matched the map within 10 metres at every summit. Four stars only because the screen is a magnet for a jacket sleeve and the wrist detection lights it up constantly in the dark. Minor, but on a night walk it grates.