fenix® 6X Sapphire (Gray)

Multisport GPS Smartwatch

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Push new limits and explore new challenges — while adding mapping, music, intelligent pace planning and more to your workouts with the fenix 6X selection of premium smartwatches.

Wrist-based heart rate and Pulse Ox sensors add insight to your fitness activities
Dynamic PacePro™ feature helps you run smarter over various types of terrain
Preloaded ski maps for more than 2,000 resorts around the world
Measure running and cycling performance in ways you didn’t know were possible
Navigate your world with multi-GNSS satellite reference and outdoor sensors
Sync your favourite streaming services, and listen to music without your phone

Key Features

Quality By Design	Rugged yet sophisticated design features a large 1.4” display that’s 36% larger than previous fenix models. It is tested to U.S. military standards for thermal, shock and water resistance
Premium Materials	Fit the look to your lifestyle with your choice of stainless steel or DLC coated bezels. Sapphire editions add a scratch-resistant sapphire lens and premium materials
PacePro Technology	A first-of-its-kind PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course
Power Manager	View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly
Performance Metrics	View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, recovery advisor and more
Sports Apps	Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, backcountry and resort skiing, golfing and more
TOPO and Ski Maps	Use topographical maps to navigate your adventures and view run names and difficulty ratings for 2,000 worldwide ski resorts.
ClimbPro Feature	Use ClimbPro ascent planner to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain
Golf Courses	Access full-colour CourseView maps for more than 41,000 preloaded golf courses around the world, and get button targeting and the PlaysLike Distance feature
Turn-by-turn Navigation	Follow a route or course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming
Round-trip Routing	Enter a distance you want to travel, and get suggested routes that will bring you back to your starting point. Trendline™ popularity routing helps you find the best local paths
Multi-GNSS Support	Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone
ABC Sensors	Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and three-axis electronic compass
Safety and Tracking Features	If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features send your location to emergency contacts
Music Apps	Store up to 2,000 songs, or access streaming apps from your compatible services, including Spotify®, Deezer and Amazon Music, and listen through headphones with BLUETOOTH® technology
Garmin Pay Service	Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers
Smart Notifications	Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device
Wrist-based Heart Rate	Enhanced optical heart rate¹ technology gauges the intensity of your fitness activities as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level score. It also tracks under water without a heart rate strap
Pulse Ox Sensor	For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox² sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor	Optimize your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest
Connect IQ™ Store	Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ™ Store
Expedition Mode	Trek far and wide between recharges. Expedition mode, an ultralow-powered GPS reference, lasts for weeks
Battery	Internal, rechargeable lithium battery provides up to 21 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, 15 hours in GPS mode with music and up to 80 days in battery saver mode

Specifications

General

Lens Material	Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 or Sapphire Crystal
Bezel Material	stainless steel or Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) coated steel
Case material	fiber-reinforced polymer with polymer rear cover
QuickFit™ watch band compatible	included (26 mm)
Strap material	silicone, leather, titanium or nylon
Physical size	51 x 51 x 14.9 mm Silicone band: 127-210 mm Leather band: 135-213 mm Fabric band: 135-213 mm Metal band: 135-225 mm
Display size	1.4” (35.56 mm) diameter
Display resolution	280 x 280 pixels
Display type	sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Weight	Steel: 93 g (case only: 66 g)
Battery life	Smartwatch: Up to 21 days GPS: Up to 60 hours GPS and Music: Up to 15 hours Max Battery GPS Mode: 120 hours Expedition GPS Activity: 46 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: 80 days
Water rating	10 ATM
Colour display	Yes
Memory/History	32 GB

Clock Features

Time/date	Yes
GPS Time Sync	Yes
Automatic daylight saving time	Yes
Alarm clock	Yes
Timer	Yes
Stopwatch	Yes
Sunrise/sunset times	Yes

Sensors

GPS	Yes
GLONASS	Yes
Galileo	Yes
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor	Yes
Barometric altimeter	Yes
Compass	Yes
Gyroscope	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes
Thermometer	Yes
Pulse Ox	yes (with Acclimation)

Daily Smart Features

Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)	Yes
Smart notifications	Yes
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)	Yes
Connectivity	Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
Calendar	Yes
Weather	Yes
Controls smartphone music	Yes
Plays and controls watch music	Yes
Music Storage	up to 2,000 songs
Find My Phone	Yes
Find My Phone	Yes
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone®, Android™
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile	Yes
Garmin Pay™	Yes

Safety and Tracking Features

Incident Detection during select activities	Yes
Assistance	Yes
LiveTrack	Yes
Group LiveTrack	Yes
Live Event Sharing	Yes

Tactical Features

Dual grid coordinates

Yes

Activity Tracking Features

Step counter	Yes
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)	Yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)	Yes
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)	Yes
Calories burned	Yes
Floors climbed	Yes
Distance traveled	Yes
Intensity minutes	Yes
TrueUp™	Yes
Move IQ™	Yes
Fitness Age	Yes (in app)
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor	Yes
All-day Stress Tracking	Yes

Gym & Fitness Equipment

Available gym activity profiles	Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Yoga, Pilates and Breathwork
Cardio workouts	Yes
Strength workouts	Yes
Automatic rep counting	Yes

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

GPS speed and distance	Yes
Customizable data pages	Yes
Customizable activity profiles	Yes
Auto Pause®	Yes
Advanced workouts	Yes
Downloadable training plans	Yes
Auto Lap®	Yes
Manual lap	Yes
Configurable lap alerts	Yes
Heat and altitude acclimation	Yes
V02 max	Yes
Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.)	Yes
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC)	Yes
Training load focus	Yes
Training Effect (aerobic)	Yes
Training Effect (anaerobic)	Yes
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels)	Yes
Custom alerts	Yes
Audio prompts	Yes
Finish time	Yes
Virtual Partner	Yes
Race an Activity	Yes
Auto multisport activities	Yes
Manual multisport activities	Yes
Course guidance	Yes
Garmin Live Segments	Yes
Strava Live Segments	Yes
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling)	Yes
Trendline™ Popularity Routing	Yes (available as a wearable map theme)
Touch and/or button lock	Yes
Auto scroll	Yes
Activity history on watch	Yes
Physio TrueUp	Yes

Heart Rate Features

HR zones	Yes
HR alerts	Yes
HR calories	Yes
% HR max	Yes
% HRR	Yes
Recovery time	Yes
Auto max HR	Yes (with compatible accessory)
HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels)	Yes
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices)	Yes

Running Features

Available run profiles	Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running
GPS-based distance, time and pace	Yes
Running dynamics	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Stride length (real time)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)	Yes
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)	Yes
Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies	Yes
Run workouts	Yes
Foot pod capable	Yes

Golfing Features

Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)	Yes
Yardage to layups/doglegs	Yes
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)	Automatic
Digital scorecard	Yes
Custom targets	Yes
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)	Yes
Garmin AutoShot™	Yes
Full vector map	Yes
Auto CourseView updates	Yes
Green View with manual pin position	Yes
Hazards and course targets	Yes
PinPointer	Yes
PlaysLike distance	Yes
Handicap scoring	Yes
TruSwing™ compatible	Yes
Round timer/odometer	Yes
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)	Yes

Outdoor Recreation Features

Available outdoor recreation profiles	Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, Tactical
Point-to-point navigation	Yes
Bread crumb trail in real time	Yes
Back to start	Yes
TracBack®	Yes
UltraTrac mode	Yes
Around Me mode	Yes
Elevation profile	Yes
Distance to destination	Yes
Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert	Yes
ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner	Yes
Trail run auto climb	Yes
Vertical speed	Yes
Total ascent/descent	Yes
Future elevation plot	Yes
Preloaded topographical maps	Yes
Preloaded ski resort maps	Yes
Downloadable cartography support	Yes
Compatible with BaseCamp™	Yes
GPS coordinates	Yes
Projected waypoint	Yes
Sight 'N Go	Yes
Area calculation	Yes (via Connect IQ™)
Hunt/fish calendar	Yes (via Connect IQ™)
Sun and moon information	Yes (via Connect IQ™)
XERO™ Locations	Yes
Expedition GPS Activity	Yes

Cycling Features

Available cycling profiles	Biking, Indoor Biking
Courses	Yes
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)	Yes
Race an activity	Yes
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)	Yes
FTP (Functional Threshold Power)	Yes
Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map)	Yes
Compatible with Vector™ (power meter)	Yes
Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters)	Yes
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)	Yes
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)	Yes
Compatible with Varia™ lights	Yes
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor)	yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors)

Swimming Features

Available swim profiles	Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)	Yes
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)	Yes
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (Pool Swim Only)	Yes
Drill logging (Pool Swim Only)	Yes
Basic rest timer (up from 0)	Yes
Countdown start	Yes
Pool swim workouts	Yes
Underwater wrist-based heart rate	Yes
Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim)	yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)

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