Garmin's latest watch is ludicrously expensive, but I still want it

Thought nan best Garmin watches were excessively costly already? You haven’t seen thing yet.

Garmin’s ultra-premium statement of smartwatches, nan Marq range, is Garmin’s foray into style arsenic good arsenic substance. Instead of going for chunky G-Shock style escapade watches for illustration nan Instinct range, aliases going for a much accepted smartwatch artistic for illustration nan Venu aliases Garmin Vivoactive 5, nan Garmin Marq statement shares a creation ethos pinch premium analog watches, pinch each exemplary representing a definite theme.

The Garmin Marq Aviator, for example, boasts upwind reports for circumstantial airports (ideal for pilots), while nan Marq Captain exemplary looks for illustration a classical dive watch and features a regatta timer connected nan bezel.

The Marq Adventurer is simply a premium smartwatch pinch a 360-degree rotating compass bezel, arsenic good arsenic each nan remainder of Garmin’s premium adventuring features including topographical maps support, all-day humor oxygen sensing for altitude acclimation, and precocious GPS capabilities. Ordinarily, nan Marq Adventurer Gen 2’s lawsuit and bezel is comprised of Grade 5 Titanium, but a caller driblet by Garmin has nan Marq Adventurer’s lawsuit and rotating bezel comprised of Damascus steel.

Damascus alloy is well-known for its unthinkable durability and unique wavy design. Described arsenic “forged from nan finest materials connected Earth”, nan Garmin Marq Adventurer (Gen 2) Damascus Steel Edition, to springiness it its afloat title, looks perfectly sublime.

It comes pinch a leather / FKM rubber hybrid watch strap to brace pinch nan ultra-premium body, which features Garmin’s classical five-button design. This will each group you backmost an eye-watering $3,100 / £2,799 / AU$5,500.

This has to beryllium 1 of nan best-looking smartwatches, pinch that Damascus alloy undulating shape made utilizing its forging, that I’ve ever seen. Forget nan price: I still want one. Long-time readers mightiness cognize that I emotion it erstwhile analog and integer creation languages meet to create thing unique: it’s why I’m 1 of nan only group I cognize who really loved nan smart Casio G-Shock artistic of nan Garmin Instinct Crossover. But nan Marq Adventurer (Gen 2) Damascus Steel Edition is different level, and for 3 expansive I should dream so.

There doesn’t look to beryllium a immense quality successful functionality betwixt Garmin’s different premium offerings, specified arsenic nan Garmin Fenix 8, but Garmin already knows its internals are quality: you’re paying for a smartwatch that looks for illustration it could beryllium connected nan wrist of Indiana Jones, only pinch current-generation smarts. It mightiness look timeless, but this watch surely doesn’t beryllium successful a museum.

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