- Choose from 3 different sizes to find the one that fits your wrist.
- The built-in LED flashlight with adjustable brightness and strobe function provides greater situational awareness when training in the dark.
- The Red Shift mode changes the screen colors to shades of red to help the user adapt to darker conditions and minimize disruption to the sleep cycle.
- Stay active with dozens of new preloaded sports profiles including soccer, racket sports, horseback riding, and more.
- Better understand your fitness level with measurements such as ascent score and endurance score.
- Runners can use the Up Ahead feature to view specific running points of interest such as aid stations on the map for a better understanding of the route.
- The advanced heart rate sensor offers enhanced performance tracking in Multisport activities.
- The new weather maps make it easier to monitor changing weather conditions.
- Shaded elevation maps provide a better understanding of the area at a glance.
Description
Specifications
The Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) Sapphire Edition is a touchscreen smartwatch that can connect to an Android or iOS smartphone.
It features NFC for contactless payments and device pairing. It is primarily aimed at those interested in a smartwatch with many functions and capabilities for monitoring health and fitness.
It can be used for swimming in the sea, and among its features are:
- GPS for locating geographical position via satellite.
- Step and distance tracking.
- Built-in heart rate monitor that detects heartbeats 24/7.
Its waterproofing offers protection in all challenging conditions, allowing it to be used for daily use or swimming, with waterproof capability comparable to traditional high-end sports watches.
It can be used in various activities such as running, cycling, swimming, and hiking, as it has pre-loaded sports profiles with specialized metrics and indications.
Users primarily distinguish it for its long battery life and measurement accuracy.
What’s new in the epix Pro series
- Choose from 3 different sizes to find the one that fits your wrist.
- The built-in LED flashlight with adjustable brightness and strobe function provides greater situational awareness when training in the dark.
- The Red Shift mode changes the screen colors to shades of red to help the user adapt to darker conditions and minimize disruption to the sleep cycle.
- Stay active with dozens of new preloaded sports profiles including soccer, racket sports, horseback riding, and more.
- Better understand your fitness level with measurements such as ascent score and endurance score.
- Runners can use the Up Ahead feature to view specific running points of interest such as aid stations on the map for a better understanding of the route.
- The advanced heart rate sensor offers enhanced performance tracking in Multisport activities.
- The new weather maps make it easier to monitor changing weather conditions.
- Shaded elevation maps provide a better understanding of the area at a glance.
Durable Design
Designed to be worn all day long, the epix Pro series smartwatches combine durable athletic design and advanced materials such as sapphire and titanium, featuring an impressive AMOLED display. Traditional buttons complement the touchscreen for access to maps, health statistics, smart notifications, and more. With a wide range of optional straps including leather, fabric, and metal, the epix Pro series can be worn just as easily at a meeting as at the gym.
Conquer every hour
With dozens of built-in sports apps including new team sports such as football, baseball, softball, and more, the epix Pro series provides data and information for every passion. Whether you work out at the gym or in the comfort of your home, the epix Pro series records activities such as strength training, cardio, rowing, stair stepping, yoga, and HIIT. Follow ready-made workouts with animated graphics for cardio, strength, yoga, and Pilates right from your wrist. For those who love the outdoors, you’ll find profiles for hiking, mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, surfing, rafting, and more.
All day
Designed for all-day use, the epix Pro series includes advanced health and wellness tools, as well as a range of smart features to keep you always connected. Health features include Pulse Ox 2, Body Battery™ energy monitoring, jet lag advisor, advanced sleep tracking and scoring, and more. In the morning report, you can see a detailed picture of your sleep, your training calendar, heart rate variability, and more.
Ready for Game Day
Every morning, users can receive a training readiness score that helps them determine whether they are ready for a tough workout or if they should take it easier, while metrics such as VO2 max, training load, training status, and more help you measure your overall performance. Those preparing for their next race can use the free Garmin Coach app to train for 5K, 10K, or Half Marathon, or use the race widget for training tips, time prediction, and a week of suggested workouts. For long-distance runners, the epix Pro series is equipped with useful tools such as PacePro, ClimbPro, real-time stamina, and wrist-based running power.
Navigate with ease
Wherever your next adventure takes you, the epix Pro series will guide you with advanced mapping, SatIQ technology, and multi-band signal reception combined with multiple multi-GNSS satellite systems for unrivaled positioning accuracy in demanding environments, optimizing battery life. TopoActive maps provide worldwide mapping so you can always find your way. Before you start, create or find a ready-made route on Garmin Connect and transfer it automatically to your watch. Create round-trip routes from your wrist using Trendline popular route routing, which uses routes chosen by locals.
Key Features
- Long battery life: Get up to 31 days in smartwatch mode or up to 82 hours in GPS mode.
- Built-in LED flashlight: The adjustable brightness and red safety light give you better awareness when training in the dark and provide comfortable lighting when you need it. The strobe function can match your running cadence for improved visibility at night.
- Hill Score: This feature measures your ability to run uphill and estimates your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history. It measures your running power on steep inclines and your endurance on long climbs, giving you a score based on your performance.
- Endurance Score: This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged effort and combines training data from all your sports activities to help you understand how training affects your overall endurance. This dynamic measurement uses VO2 max, short-term/long-term training load, and other factors to track your fitness progress beyond just VO2 max.
- Durable design: The rugged athletic design features a bright 1.4" AMOLED scratch-resistant sapphire display, touchscreen, traditional buttons, and a 51 mm fiber-reinforced polymer case with titanium bezel and back cover. The watch has been tested to U.S. military standards for resistance to extreme temperatures, shock, and water.
- Knowledge is power: Your health and training data should be easy to interpret and provide actionable insights. Start each day with a customizable morning report and see a daily summary of health and wellness information. Use the training readiness feature, which looks at a variety of different health metrics to help you maximize training effectiveness and recovery to prevent burnout.
- Race prediction: See an estimate of your pace for a 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, and Marathon race.
- PacePro Technology: Plan your race day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
- ClimbPro feature: View real-time information about your current and upcoming climbs on routes downloaded to your watch.
- Grade-adjusted pace: See your equivalent running pace with the same effort on flat ground or when climbing.
- Training readiness: The training readiness score is based on sleep quality, recovery, training load, and HRV status to determine whether you are ready for a hard workout or should take it easy.
- Training Status: View information and understand whether you are training productively, at your peak, or overreaching.
- Performance Metrics: Measure your performance with advanced training metrics such as VO2 max, training load, and more.
- Real-Time Endurance: Avoid burnout and use this data to monitor and manage your fatigue.
- Daily Workout Suggestions: See the entire week with workout suggestions that adjust after each run or ride.
- Recovery Time: See how much time you need to recover before your next high-intensity effort based on your last workout.
- Race Widget: Prepare for your next race with training tips, personalized daily workout suggestions, and more.
- Garmin Coach: Free customizable training plans for 5K, 10K, and half marathon from top coaches.
- Wrist-Based Running Power: See how much power you apply on the trail or road to manage your effort and train based on running power, now without extra accessories, directly from your wrist.
- More Activity Tracking: Use preloaded activity profiles for data and insights from your activities. Now you can track more team sports like soccer, basketball, racket sports, and more.
- HIIT Workouts: Record your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, or custom exercises.
- Animated Workouts: Follow animated workouts for cardio, strength, yoga, and Pilates right on your watch screen.
- Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding: View ascent and descent data along with metrics like pace, stride length, and slope.
- XC Ski Dynamics: Measure exercise load when paired with an HRM-Pro™ Plus heart rate strap (sold separately).
- Surf Activity: Track the number of waves surfed, max speed, distance traveled, and more.
- Surfline® Camera: Create a video of every wave you ride in front of a Surfline camera with Surfline Sessions™ technology. Use the Surfline widget to see tide, wave height, wind, and surf rating for each of the five closest surf spots.
- MTB Dynamics: Record details of your descent with specialized Grit® and Flow™ metrics.
- Outdoor Maps+: Optional subscription to Outdoor Maps+ gives you access to premium mapping (coverage only in the US) and satellite imagery (global coverage), with direct download to your watch.
- SATIQ™ Technology: Receive superior location accuracy using multi-band GPS while optimizing battery life.
- ABC Sensors: Navigate your next trail with an altimeter, barometer, and 3-axis electronic compass.
- Topographic Maps: Preloaded TopoActive maps of your area or download any area you want to keep your explorations on the right path. View contour lines, elevation, peaks, parks, shorelines, rivers, lakes, and other geographic features.
- SKIVIEW™ Maps: See trail names and difficulty ratings for over 2,000 preloaded ski resorts worldwide.
- Golf Course Maps: View preloaded full-color CourseView maps for over 43,000 golf courses worldwide.
- Nextfork™ Map Guide: Navigate with a quick glance and see the distance to the next intersection and trail name.
- “Ahead” Map Overlay Feature: Gain awareness at a glance of selected points of interest ahead of you, now with map overlay, such as aid stations during a race.
- Round-Trip Routing: Enter the distance you want and see suggested routes that bring you back to your starting point. You can use TrendLine™ routing to find the best local trails.
- Turn-by-Turn Directions: Create or find existing routes in the Garmin Connect™ app, or sync from your favorite third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.
- Morning Report: See a personalized overview of your sleep, training, HRV status, weather, and more when you wake up.
- HRV Status: Better understand your overall health, recovery, and training performance while you sleep.
- Pulse Oximeter Sensor: Track your blood oxygen saturation while awake or sleeping and gain awareness of how you adapt to altitude.
- Wrist-Based Heart Rate: The watch continuously measures your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you’re working during activities.
- Sleep Score and Tracking: Understand your body’s recovery with a sleep score, sleep stage analysis, and detailed insights to improve your sleep quality.
- Jet Lag Advisor: Helps minimize the effects of jet lag with guidance on light exposure, sleep schedule, and exercise.
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Monitor your body’s energy reserves to find the best times for activity and rest.
- Stress Tracking: See if you’re having a calm, balanced, or stressful day.
- Health Snapshot™ Feature: Take a two-minute session to record key health stats and then generate a report to share with your doctor.
- Heat and Altitude Acclimation: See how you respond to current altitude or heat based on your health metrics.
- Smart Notifications: Receive emails, texts, and alerts when your watch is paired with an iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
- Music: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.
- Garmin Pay™ contactless payments: Avoid checkout lines with the Garmin Pay™ contactless payment solution.
- Safety and tracking features: If you feel unsafe or if your watch detects an incident, it will send a message with your current location.
- Stock tracking: Track up to 50 of your favorite stocks directly from your wrist.
- CONNECT IQ™ Store: Add watch faces, data fields, and apps when you connect it to your watch.
- Power management: See how different settings affect your watch's battery life.
Technical Specifications
- Colour
- Black
- Release Date
- 2023
- Screen Size
- 1.3 "
- Screen Resolution
- 416x416 pixels
- Screen Type
- AMOLED
- Compatible Operating System
- Android, iOS
- Touch Screen
- Yes
- Internal Storage
- 32 GB
- Connection
- Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi
- Strap
- Silicone
- Case material
- Titanium
Features & Functions
- Features
- Vibration
- Features & Functions
- Email, SMS, Caller ID, Application / Calls Notification
- Use
- Misc Sports / Gym, Swimming, Climbing, Hiking, Cycling, Running, Triathlon
Additional Specifications
- Sensors
- GPS, Altimeter, Barometer, Pedometer, Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Calorimeter, Thermometer, Heart Rate, Oximeter, Sleep Monitoring, Compass
- Protection
- Splash Resistant
- ATM Rating
- 10 ATM
- Waterproof
- Sea Swimming
- MIL-STD-810
- Yes
Battery
- Battery Life
- 16 days
Dimensions
- Case Size
- 47 mm
- Weight
- 70 gr
AI Features
- AI Voice Assistant
- No
- AI Training Coach
- -
- AI Health Insights
- -
Important information
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