Garmin
Garmin Instinct Solar, Tactical Edition
In the collection

Every other watch here tells the time. This one does that as an afterthought, somewhere behind a battery gauge reading forty-five days and a GPS chip it will happily leave running all weekend. The bezel says SOLAR and the case back agrees, so some of those forty-five days are coming straight off the wrist in daylight.
It belongs on the site for the same reason the Timex does. A collection that only admits the watches that flatter it is not a record of what you wear, and this is what goes on when the day involves being outside for a long time and not caring what is on your wrist.
The transflective screen is the part worth pointing at: it gets more readable in direct sun, which is the exact opposite of every bright display made since.
Specification
- Reference
- Instinct Solar — Tactical Edition
- Year
- Not recorded yet
- Case
- Fibre-reinforced polymer, sage green
- Movement
- Quartz, rechargeable — GPS smartwatch, solar assisted
- Display
- Monochrome transflective, with the round sub-window at twelve
- Water resistance
- 100 m, per the case back
- Standards
- MIL-STD-810G — thermal, shock and water, per the case back
- Case back
- Stamped INSTINCT SOLAR, MADE IN TAIWAN
- Strap
- Sage green silicone




Record
Photographed for this site.