Garmin Instinct 2X Solar Rugged GPS Smartwatch, Graphite

 

WHATEVER YOU DO, OWN IT

This big, rugged GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you and bold enough to fit your style. Its expansive solar charging lens keeps a larger battery going longer— powering advanced training features, a built-in flashlight, multi-band GNSS, health/wellness monitoring sensors and much more.

Product Highlights:

This watch is tough, which means no holding back.

Keep your experiences going with unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging.

Train your way with built-in sports apps at the wrist.

When it gets dark, the built-in LED flashlight helps keep you going.

Smart notifications so you don’t miss out on what matters.

Understand your body better with 24/7 health monitoring.

Product Features:

ENGINEERED FOR ENDURANCE

This ultratough watch features a solar charged display and rugged 50 mm polymer case. It’s water-rated to 100 meters and tested to U.S. military 810 standards for thermal, shock and water resistance.

DESIGNED TO DO YOU

With a design built for action and the features to support your high-energy lifestyle, this watch is always ready for adventure. Plus, its bold styling clearly shows the world that you do things your own way.

GET MORE BATTERY OUT OF LIFE

Go longer than ever with solar charging with unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode. Plus, power manager lets you extend battery life by controlling what settings and sensors draw power.

SOLAR POWERED

Solar charging Power Glass™ lens extends battery life, producing 50% more energy than the Instinct® 2 Solar. Go longer with the potential for unlimited solar-charged battery life in smartwatch mode.

BUILT-IN FLASHLIGHT

To help guide your way in low-light conditions, a built-in multi-LED flashlight provides variable intensities and strobe that matches your running cadence — plus a red safety light mode to help keep an eye on your nighttime surroundings.

MULTI-BAND FREQUENCY SUPPORT

Receive and utilize multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites, which enable improved user position accuracy specifically in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak or typically do not penetrate.

ABC SENSORS

Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass.

TRACBACK® ROUTING

Take the guesswork out of your return journey by using this feature to navigate the same route back to your starting point.

REFERENCE POINT

Keep track of a known place — such as your car or the trailhead — relative to your location, and easily find your way back to it.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone.

CONNECT IQ™ STORE

Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app on your compatible smartphone.

GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers.

SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features can send a message with your location to your emergency contacts when paired with your compatible smartphone.

CALENDAR VIEW

Easily see your plans for the day with a dedicated calendar screen when paired with your compatible smartphone.

SYNC WITH THE GARMIN CONNECT™ APP

See your health and fitness information all in one place. The Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect, compete and share.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Do whatever you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, strength training, indoor climbing, skiing, snowboarding, golf, yoga, Pilates and more.

OBSTACLE COURSE RACING

Track your performance during obstacle course events — with split times recorded between running and obstacle sections while you race. After manually recording splits during your first loop, you can focus solely on the race from there as splits will be automatically recorded. Then, review your stats after the race.

HIIT WORKOUTS

This activity profile tracks your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more.

VO2 MAX

Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. It even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUT

View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar.

RECOVERY TIME

After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

Get heart rate data along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities.

SLEEP SCORE AND ADVANCED SLEEP MONITORING

Get a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights.

MORNING REPORT

Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING

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.

PULSE OX

For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox sensor uses light beams at your wrist to estimate how well your body is absorbing oxygen.

HRV STATUS

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.

Product Specifications:

General

LENS MATERIAL - Power Glass™

BEZEL MATERIAL - fiber-reinforced polymer

CASE MATERIAL - fiber-reinforced polymer

QUICKFIT™ WATCH BAND COMPATIBLE - yes (26 mm)

STRAP MATERIAL - silicone

PHYSICAL SIZE - 50 x 50 x 14.5 mm

FITS WRISTS WITH A CIRCUMFERENCE - 145-228 mm

LED FLASHLIGHT - yes

DISPLAY SIZE - custom, two-window design; 1.1” x 1.1” (27 x 27 mm)

DISPLAY RESOLUTION - 176 x 176 pixels

DISPLAY TYPE - monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)

WEIGHT - 67 g

WATER RATING - 10 ATM

CHARGING METHOD - Garmin proprietary plug charger

MEMORY/HISTORY - 64 MB

Battery Life

SMARTWATCH: 40 days; unlimited with solar*

GPS: 60 hours; 145 hours with solar**

ALL SATELLITE SYSTEMS: 40 hours; 65 hours with solar*

ALL SATELLITE SYSTEMS + MULTI-BAND: 27 hours; 36 hours with solar**

MAX BATTERY GPS MODE: 150 hours; unlimited with solar**

EXPEDITION GPS ACTIVITY: 60 days; unlimited with solar*

BATTERY SAVER WATCH MODE: 100 days; unlimited with solar*

*Solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions

**Solar charging, assuming use in 50,000 lux conditions

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

Health Monitoring

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE (CONSTANT, EVERY SECOND)

DAILY RESTING HEART RATE

ABNORMAL HEART RATE ALERTS - yes (high and low)

RESPIRATION RATE (24X7) - yes

PULSE OX BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION - yes

FITNESS AGE - yes (in app)

BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITOR - yes

ALL-DAY STRESS - yes

RELAXATION BREATHING TIMER - yes

SLEEP - yes

SLEEP SCORE AND INSIGHTS - yes

HYDRATION - yes (in Garmin Connect™)

WOMEN'S HEALTH - yes (in Garmin Connect™)

HEALTH SNAPSHOT - yes

Sensors

GPS - yes

GLONASS - yes

GALILEO - yes

MULTI-FREQUENCY POSITIONING - yes

GARMIN ELEVATE™ WRIST HEART RATE MONITOR - yes

BAROMETRIC ALTIMETER - yes

COMPASS - yes

GYROSCOPE - yes

ACCELEROMETER - yes

THERMOMETER - yes

PULSE OX BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION MONITOR - yes

Daily Smart Features

CONNECTIVITY - Bluetooth®, ANT+®

CONNECT IQ™ (DOWNLOADABLE WATCH FACES, DATA FIELDS, WIDGETS AND APPS) - yes

SMART NOTIFICATIONS  - yes

TEXT RESPONSE/REJECT PHONE CALL WITH TEXT (ANDROID™ ONLY) - yes

CALENDAR - yes

WEATHER - yes

REALTIME SETTINGS SYNC WITH GARMIN CONNECT™ MOBILE - yes

BATTERY SAVER (CUSTOMIZABLE LOW POWER WATCH) - yes

CONTROLS SMARTPHONE MUSIC - yes

FIND MY PHONE - yes

FIND MY WATCH - yes

VIRB® REMOTE - yes

SMARTPHONE COMPATIBILITY - iPhone®, Android™

PAIRS WITH GARMIN CONNECT™ MOBILE - yes

GARMIN PAY™ - yes

Safety and Tracking Features

LIVETRACK - yes

INCIDENT DETECTION DURING SELECT ACTIVITIES - yes

ASSISTANCE - 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

CALORIES BURNED - yes

FLOORS CLIMBED - yes

DISTANCE TRAVELED - yes

INTENSITY MINUTES - yes

TRUEUP™ - yes

MOVE IQ™ - yes

GARMIN CONNECT™ CHALLENGES APP - yes (optional Connect IQ app)

Gym & Fitness Equipment

AUTOMATIC REP COUNTING - yes

CARDIO WORKOUTS - yes

STRENGTH WORKOUTS - yes

HIIT WORKOUTS - yes

YOGA WORKOUTS - yes

PILATES WORKOUTS - yes

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

HR ZONES - yes

HR ALERTS - yes

HR CALORIES - yes

% HR MAX - yes

% HRR - yes

RECOVERY TIME - yes

AUTO MAX HR - yes

MORNING REPORT - yes

HRV STATUS - yes

TRAINING READINESS - yes

HR BROADCAST (BROADCASTS HR DATA OVER ANT+™ TO PAIRED DEVICES) - yes (using ANT+)

RESPIRATION RATE (DURING EXERCISE) - yes

GPS SPEED AND DISTANCE - yes

CUSTOMIZABLE DATA PAGES - yes

CUSTOMIZABLE ACTIVITY PROFILES - yes

AUTO PAUSE® - yes

INTERVAL TRAINING - yes

ADVANCED WORKOUTS - yes

DOWNLOADABLE TRAINING PLANS - yes

POWER MODES - CUSTOMIZABLE IN-ACTIVITY BATTERY SETTINGS - yes

HRM RUNNING PACE AND DISTANCE - yes

AUTO LAP® - yes

MANUAL LAP - yes

CONFIGURABLE LAP ALERTS - yes

HEAT AND ALTITUDE ACCLIMATION - yes

VO2 MAX (RUN) - yes

VO2 MAX (TRAIL RUN) - yes

TRAINING STATUS - yes

TRAINING LOAD - yes

TRAINING EFFECT - yes

TRAINING EFFECT (ANAEROBIC) - yes

PRIMARY BENEFIT (TRAINING EFFECT LABELS) - yes

IMPROVED RECOVERY TIME - yes

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS - 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

TOUCH AND/OR BUTTON LOCK - yes

HOT KEYS - yes

AUTO SCROLL - yes

ACTIVITY HISTORY ON WATCH - yes

PHYSIO TRUEUP - yes

UNIFIED TRAINING STATUS - yes

Running Features

AVAILABLE RUN PROFILES - Running, Outdoor Track 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 - yes (with compatible accessory)

GROUND CONTACT TIME AND BALANCE - yes (with compatible accessory)

STRIDE LENGTH (REAL TIME) - yes (with compatible accessory)

CADENCE (PROVIDES REAL-TIME NUMBER OF STEPS PER MINUTE) - yes

RUNNING POWER - yes

GRADE-ADJUSTED PACE - yes

PERFORMANCE CONDITION - yes

LACTATE THRESHOLD - yes (with compatible accessory)

RUN WORKOUTS - yes

TRAIL RUN AUTO CLIMB - yes

RACE PREDICTOR - yes

FOOT POD CAPABLE - yes

RUN/WALK/STAND DETECTION - 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) - manual

DIGITAL SCORECARD - yes

STAT TRACKING (STROKES, PUTTS PER ROUND, GREENS AND FAIRWAYS HIT) - yes

GARMIN AUTOSHOT™ - yes

AUTO COURSEVIEW UPDATES - yes

GREEN VIEW WITH MANUAL PIN POSITION - yes

HAZARDS AND COURSE TARGETS - yes

ROUND TIMER/ODOMETER - yes

AUTOMATIC CLUB TRACKING COMPATIBLE (REQUIRES ACCESSORY) - yes

PAIRS WITH GARMIN GOLF APP - yes

TOURNAMENT LEGAL - yes

Outdoor Recreation

AVAILABLE OUTDOOR RECREATION PROFILES - Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Hunting, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Snowhshoeing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Obstacle Course Racing, Tennis, Tactical

POINT-TO-POINT NAVIGATION - yes

BREAD CRUMB TRAIL IN REAL TIME - yes

BACK TO START - yes

TRACBACK® - yes

ULTRATRAC MODE - yes

REFERENCE POINT - yes

ELEVATION PROFILE - yes

DISTANCE TO DESTINATION - yes

BAROMETRIC TREND INDICATOR WITH STORM ALERT - yes

VERTICAL SPEED - yes

TOTAL ASCENT/DESCENT - yes

FUTURE ELEVATION PLOT - yes

GPS COORDINATES - yes

SIGHT 'N GO - yes

AREA CALCULATION - yes

PROJECTED WAYPOINT - yes

SUN AND MOON INFORMATION - yes

XERO™ LOCATIONS - yes

EXPEDITION GPS ACTIVITY - yes

TIDES - yes

TIDE GLANCE - yes

Cycling Features

AVAILABLE CYCLING PROFILES - Biking, Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel Biking, Bike Commuting, Bike Touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross, Triathlon

ALERTS (TRIGGERS ALARM WHEN YOU REACH GOALS INCLUDING TIME, DISTANCE, HEART RATE OR CALORIES) - yes

COURSES - yes

MTB GRIT & FLOW - yes

BIKE LAP AND LAP MAXIMUM POWER (WITH POWER SENSOR) - yes

RACE AN ACTIVITY - yes

FTP (FUNCTIONAL THRESHOLD POWER) - yes

COMPATIBLE WITH VECTOR™ AND RALLY™ (POWER METERS) - yes

POWER METER COMPATIBLE - yes

ADVANCED CYCLING DYNAMICS - yes (in app)

COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ RADAR (REAR-FACING RADAR) - yes

COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ LIGHTS - yes

SPEED AND CADENCE SENSOR SUPPORT (W/SENSOR) - yes

Swimming Features

AVAILABLE SWIM PROFILES - Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming

OPEN-WATER SWIM METRICS (DISTANCE, PACE, STROKE COUNT/RATE, STROKE DISTANCE, SWIM EFFICIENCY (SWOLF), CALORIES) - yes

POOL SWIM METRICS (LENGTHS, DISTANCE, PACE, STROKE COUNT, 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) (POOL SWIM ONLY) - yes

"REPEAT ON" REST TIMER (POOL SWIM ONLY) - yes

AUTO REST (POOL SWIM ONLY) - yes

TIME AND DISTANCE ALERTS - yes

COUNTDOWN START (POOL SWIM ONLY) - 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

Kid Activity Tracking Features

TOE-TO-TOE™ CHALLENGES APP - yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app)

Connectivity

SMART TRAINER CONTROL - yes