Top 5 Garmin Smartwatches: Make Your MARQ
Smartwatches have existed (if you can believe it) for a couple decades now. In that time, they’ve gained in both technological innovation and popularity since those first rudimentary models appeared. Among the best modern smartwatches are those made by Garmin. With a broad stable of smartwatch styles, the creme-de-la-creme is the MARQ lineup. Offering top-line specs, build quality, and tech, these are unparalleled tools for adventurers. Join along as we break down the top five Garmin smartwatches!
Key Features
Among those who rely on smartwatches, several features consistently appear as indispensable attributes. While the list differs depending on your individual needs, here are a few of the top reasons to consider adding a smartwatch to your collection:
Fitness Tracking – A smartwatch can keep track of your daily steps, and so much more, including heart rate and blood pressure monitoring, workout tracking, and sleep measurement.
Safe Traveling – Equipped with GPS, smartwatches can both track your location and guide you to where you want to be.
Social Media – All your social media accounts, on your wrist and at your fingertips.
Call and Text – With Bluetooth connectivity, a smartwatch can make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages, all without digging out your cell phone.
Find Your Phone – Speaking of cell phones, if you happen to misplace yours, most smartphones have a Find Your Phone feature that will help you do just that.
Music On The Go – Keep your phone in your pocket and your playlist in your ears.
Tell Time – Yep, a smartwatch does that, too.
Whatever your reason, or reasons, for wanting to own a smartwatch, there’s a Garmin MARQ collection smartwatch made just for you:
Garmin MARQ Golfer
A marvel of engineering machined from 130 layers of fused carbon fiber material, with a stunning AMOLED touchscreen display, the MARQ Golfer has all the features you’d expect in a high-end smartwatch, plus the Garmin Golf™ app, a suite of features designed to bring your golf game to the next level, including:
Virtual Caddie – Recommends the correct club for each shot based on wind, elevation, your own swing data, and other factors.
Wind Speed and Direction – Wind speed and direction are displayed on the watch.
More than 43,000 Preloaded Golf Courses – Full color CourseView maps of golf courses from around the world, plus downloadable updates for your favorite courses.
Club Tracking – The included Approach® CT10 Club Tracking Sensors give you advanced tracking capabilities, including locations, distances, and club types.
Green Contour Data – See the slope direction of the green on select courses directly on your smartwatch, to help sink your putt.
Pinpointer, Hazard View, and Green View – Find the pin around doglegs and blind spots, quickly note where each hazard is located, and see the true shape of every green.
GARMIN MARQ Aviator
Highly-regarded by G.A. and professional pilots worldwide, Garmin smartwatches bring together functions inside and outside the cockpit to keep you on course. With the ability to integrate directly with aeronautic systems, the Aviator smartwatches go where few pilot watches have gone before.
Direct-To Navigation – Navigate straight to a location or waypoint in the worldwide aeronautical database. Or choose the Nearest function to activate a path to a nearby airport. Enroute, follow the instrument-like HSI course needle to your destination, so you can easily see if you’re left or right of your desired flight path.
Weather Reports – Access aviation weather including METARS and TAFs to see winds, visibility, barometric pressure, and more. See graphical indications of MOS forecasts for specific airports, including projections for temperature trends, wind, dewpoint, sky cover, precipitation probability and more. Set customizable notifications for new METAR and TAF reports, when destination airport conditions change, when crosswind components exceed a threshold and more.
Jet Lag Advisor – Correlating time spent in each time zone and pairing it with light exposure and sleep data helps you beat back jet lag.
Stress Tracking – Practice good IMSAFE technique with Garmin’s Stress Tracking features. See your heart rate variability and calculate your stress level score to see if you’re having a calm, balanced, or stressful day.
UTC and Time Zones – Optimize your communications with ATC by quickly referencing time in UTC on the fixed 24-hour bezel using the moving on-screen pointer.
Pulse Ox Sensor – Prevent dangerous hypoxia to gain awareness of how well your body’s oxygen levels are adjusting to the thinner air at higher altitudes. Get a vibration alert when you reach an altitude where supplemental oxygen may be required.
Emergency Mode – With a simple click, activate to see your best glide speed, estimated glide distance and glide time during an engine-related issue – even a complete power failure. View a bearing pointer to the nearest airport, and see a list of alternate airports.
Garmin MARQ Adventurer
If you have a taste for adventure, a passion for charting your own course and scaling your own summits, the Garmin MARQ Adventurer was designed for you. This is a luxury modern tool watch with an ultradurable 46mm grade-5 titanium case, and a AMOLED touchscreen display with traditional button controls. Packed with features made to support the adventurer in you, including:
Extended Battery Life – Up to 16 days with gesture and up to 6 days in always-on mode, thanks to the rechargeable lithium battery.
Outdoor Maps+ – With a subscription to Outdoor Maps+, receive premium mapping content downloaded directly to your watch, including satellite imagery and enhanced topographic maps.
Satiq™ Technology – Superior location accuracy in any environment, plus battery life optimization.
ABC Sensors – Includes an altimeter for elevation data, a barometer for up-to-the-minute weather monitoring, and a 3-axis electronic compass.
Climbpro Feature – This next level ascent planner gives you real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance, and elevation gain.
Nextfork™ Map Guide and Multicontinent Topographic Maps – The nextfork map guide gives you preloaded TopoActive maps, and with Multicontinent Topographic Maps, view terrain contours, elevations, summits, and much more. With Wi-Fi connectivity download additional maps from around the world.
Garmin MARQ Athlete
One word above all others describes the Garmin MARQ Athlete—performance. With a 46mm case and bezel inlay machined from fused carbon fiber material, a domed sapphire lens, stunning AMOLED display, and responsive touchscreen, the Garmin MARQ Athlete is a tool watch as unique as you are. Made for athletes, and for anyone for whom high-performance is a way of life, with features that include:
Incredible Battery Life – A rechargeable lithium battery that lasts up to 16 days in smartwatch mode and up to 42 hours in GPS mode.
Sports Apps – Enjoy preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing, surfing, indoor climbing, and more.
Endurance Score and Hill Score – Combines training data from all your athletic pursuits to help you understand your overall endurance, and measures your capability and progress for running uphill based on your VO2 max and training history.
Training Readiness and Training Status – Receive a training readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load, and more, and gain insight into your overall training effort.
Race Widget – Training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts, and completion time predictions based on course details, weather, and performance.
Animated Workouts – Easy to follow, animated cardio, strength, yoga, and Pilates workouts you can view directly on your watch screen
Garmin MARQ Captain
Be the master of the seas with the Garmin MARQ Captain. This is a tool watch engineered to endure! Built of grade-5 titanium, with a crystal clear domed sapphire lens, AMOLED display, responsive touchscreen, Regatta timer markings, and a ceramic bezel inlay, the features fit for a captain include:
Regatta Timer – A countdown timer that shows time to the gun for pinpoint starts, while GPS time to burn calculates your ideal position.
Stream Data – Connect your MARQ Captain to your boat’s compatible devices and live stream water depth, engine RPM, wind, custom data, and more.
Man Overboard – Mark a man overboard with the press of a single button. A directional arrow and distance countdown helps execute a swift recovery.
Autopilot Control – Too cozy to go topside? Access the autopilot app on your watch and change heading, engage pattern steering, and follow a GPS route, all from your smartwatch.
Comprehensive Connectivity – Connect with select compatible Garmin chart plotters and remote control key MFD features such as chart zoom, layout shortcut, Fusion® stereo, autopilot, and more.
Garmin Sailassist™ Feature Capabilities – Create a virtual starting line to time the perfect start, and use tack assist to see whether you are headed or lifted.
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