Rugged smartwatches are a necessity for tech enthusiasts who work in harsh conditions. Normally, I’d be ecstatic to get just a couple of those features in a watch at this price point but with all of that packed into a timeless design and offering a rather rugged and durable encasement without looking beefy or weighing a ton, this is a solid choice.
The Original XL comes with a classic stainless steel encasement and while the only option for the actual case is black, you may choose between several accent colors for that aluminum top ring around the watch face giving you options to make it your own.
In any case, using Tizen OS, you get the Samsung Health (it provides fitness tracking, including new exercise modes for both indoors and outdoors workouts and can accurately enough detect when the user switches the exercise; it can also track your sleeping time decently well), Bixby (a voice assistant – useful to perform calls or send emails) or the SOS function (tap the Home key three times to send an emergency message to your contacts or perform an SOS call).
During most of its history the watch was a mechanical device, driven by clockwork , powered by winding a mainspring , and keeping time with an oscillating balance wheel These are called mechanical watches 1 2 In the 1960s the electronic quartz watch was invented, which was powered by a battery and kept time with a vibrating quartz crystal By the 1980s the quartz watch had taken over most of the market from the mechanical watch.
Though most watches of this type have exquisite movements to keep time – mechanical movements are especially popular – there are some timepieces that are classified as luxury watches” even though more attention has been paid to the design than the actual workings of the watch itself.
I have tested the Kospet Tank M1 a few months ago and, while it was a solid option for the price, the design held it back a lot (seemed a bit cheap) but the manufacturer remedied that military watch straps for sale when it developed the Tank T1. Indeed, the rugged smartwatch features a metallic bezel which surrounds a circular display and there are two metallic buttons on the right side as well.
