Garmin Instinct - Rugged GPS Smartwatch

Built to withstand the toughest of elements, the Garmin Instinct is a rugged outdoor sports-watch that has all the usual skills you'd expect to see from one of Garmin's outdoor-friendly watches. The watch appears robust and well-built, as you’d expect from a device that’s made to accompany you on all manner of outdoor expeditions. And you can get it in a large range of colors, including “graphite”, “tundra”, “flame red”, “sunburst”, “lakeside blue” and “seafoam”, there’s something for everyone, whether you’re after an eye-catching or a more understated look.

The Garmin Instinct is good-to-go for most things straight out of the box. As with most of Garmin’s sports watches, the Instinct’s interface primarily consists of a series of “widgets”, or data screens, which can be navigated using the bottom two buttons on the watch’s left side. Here, you can find heart rate, weather, and calendar info, along with a summary of your activity levels of the day. By long-pressing the Menu button, you can also add widgets for sunrise and sunset, stress, music controls, temperature and moon phase, to name just a few. Alternatively, if you want to follow a predetermined route without having to retrace your steps, you can use the Garmin Connect app or the website to generate a course and export it the watch.