I’ve spent the last 48 hours (and counting) keeping our Black Friday Garmin Deals live hub ticking over, as well as our main Black Friday Bike Deals pages. This has meant a LOT of time checking for price drops on, mainly, Garmin smart watches. We’ve seen the lowest ever prices on the Epix, as well as great deals on the Forerunner models, but what I’ve unearthed I think blows them out of the water.
You may not have heard of the Quantix model before, because it is billed as a watch for seafarers, but within it, it holds all the same features as Garmin’s other top-flight smart watches, just in an extremely classy titanium body, and alongside features like fish forecast and ocean navigation.
This is as cheap as this watch has ever been, as checked by the camelcamelcamel price tracking service, but more than that – having stared at very tactical-looking watches for endless hours – I think this is by far the best-looking watch Garmin makes.
This isn’t the latest model – that’s the Quantix 8, which is also on sale at Walmart right now – but it’s the highest tier model with the fancy titanium band, and it by far has the best discount.
It’s not one that’s graced our list of the best cycling watches at full price, but at the moment, it’s certainly besting a great many options, not just from Garmin but across the whole smartwatch market.
Why choose this over any other Garmin model?
I love what smartwatches bring to the table, but one thing that I think lets them down, especially in the mid-range, is that they aren’t very smart. I don’t mean in terms of tech, because they’re definitely smart in the digital sense, but I mean smart in the visual sense. They look too ‘Tactical Terry’ for my liking in many cases, and I want a watch to look like a watch.
When you aren’t charting the high seas, or running, or climbing, or even (dare I say it) cycling with this on your wrist, it…
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