Berhanu crossed the finish line on Sunday, October 18, in 2:03:33, missing the Amsterdam course record by just three seconds. Kenya’s Nicholas Kipkorir finished second in 2:03:39, while Patrick Mosin took third in 2:03:58. It was a remarkably close finish, particularly given the wet conditions on the day.

The 32-year old made his decisive move in Vondelpark, dropping Kipkorir in the closing kilometres before running into the Olympic Stadium for the victory. It was also the fastest marathon of his career, and the first time Amsterdam’s top three men had all finished under 2:04.

A four-year-old Garmin on the winner’s wrist

What makes Berhanu’s choice rather surprising is the age of the watch. Garmin introduced the Forerunner 255 back in June 2022, and several newer generations of running watches have arrived since then. Yet here is one of the world’s fastest marathon runners still using it to compete at the highest level.

The Forerunner 255 was originally priced at $349.99 in the US. It weighs just 48 grams, has a traditional memory-in-pixel display and uses five physical buttons rather than a touchscreen. It also offers multi-band GPS, wrist-based heart rate tracking, running power, HRV status and Garmin’s training metrics.

Battery life is another strong point. Garmin quotes up to 30 hours in GPS-only mode and up to 16 hours with multi-band positioning enabled, far more than anyone needs for a marathon. The screen also remains easy to read in daylight without needing to wake an AMOLED display.

Of course, Garmin has moved on quite a bit since 2022. The Forerunner 265 brought an AMOLED screen and additional training features, while the newer Forerunner 570 and 970 introduced further hardware and software improvements. But there is very little on those more expensive models that would make a substantial difference when running a marathon.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen this

Berhanu is hardly alone in sticking with an older Garmin. Earlier this year, we looked at the watches worn at the 2026 London Marathon and found that women’s winner Tigst Assefa was also wearing a Forerunner 255. Garmin’s relatively affordable running watches continue to appear on the wrists of athletes producing extraordinary performances.

And only a week ago, Eliud Kipchoge won the Melbourne Marathon wearing what we identified as the Huawei Watch GT Runner 2. That is a much newer device, developed with input from Kipchoge and his running team. Berhanu’s choice is almost the opposite, a watch that has been around for years and doesn’t offer many of the headline features found on newer models.

For anyone wondering whether their older Garmin is still good enough, this is a useful reminder. The Forerunner 255 may no longer be among Garmin’s newest running watches, but it still offers accurate GPS tracking, reliable pace information and more training data than most runners will ever use. And now it has another major marathon victory to its name.

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The situation has become frustrating enough that developers are openly questioning how Garmin manages its app store. Some are also pointing towards the growing number of mass-produced and potentially AI-generated watch faces, although Garmin hasn’t confirmed that AI is responsible for the sudden increase.

Garmin confirms the backlog

The complaints have been building throughout October. Developers who previously received approval within a day or two are now finding their submissions stuck in review for a week or longer.

In one Garmin developer forum discussion, several users describe waiting between seven and 13 days. The delays affect new watch faces, apps and updates to existing products.

Garmin has acknowledged the situation. On October 16, Brandon from the Connect IQ team explained that the company has experienced an enormous influx of app submissions over the past month, with no indication that the volume is slowing down.

According to Garmin, this isn’t a software bug. The review team is simply dealing with more submissions than usual, and the company hasn’t provided a timeframe for returning to normal approval times.

The delays are particularly troublesome for developers selling watch faces. Some report missing potential sales while their products remain unavailable, despite paying Garmin’s $100 annual merchant account fee. There are also complaints about merchant accounts unexpectedly returning to review status.

Are AI-generated watch faces making things worse?

Is this due to vibe coding and AI? Perhaps that has made the situation worse. But developers have been complaining about the sheer number of similar-looking watch faces in Connect IQ for some time, well before the current approval delays.

An earlier discussion on Garmin’s forums raised concerns about developers releasing large numbers of nearly identical products. Some differed little beyond their background images, making it harder for more original designs and useful applications to get noticed.

Those complaints have resurfaced during the current backlog. Developers are questioning whether mass-produced watch faces are overwhelming the approval process.

There is a plausible explanation here. AI tools and watch-face generators make it easier to produce numerous designs without building everything from scratch. Developers can create multiple variations relatively quickly, potentially submitting dozens of products in the time previously needed to develop just a few.

That doesn’t automatically make those watch faces poor quality. But it does create a problem if submission volumes grow much faster than Garmin’s ability to review them.

Importantly, Garmin hasn’t released figures showing how many submissions come from AI-assisted tools, or whether these are responsible for October’s increase. For now, the connection remains a theory raised by developers rather than an established explanation.

Some developers are suggesting submission limits, including restricting accounts to one new app per week. Others want Garmin to do more about repetitive watch faces and improve communication when reviews take longer than expected.

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The feature arrived through Garmin’s September software updates, bringing hands-free voice activation to the Fenix 8, Forerunner 570 and 970, Venu 4 and several other models. Instead of pressing a button, users can simply say “OK Garmin” to activate voice commands.

But that convenience appears to come at a surprisingly high drawback.

Battery estimates dropping sharply

Reports across Garmin’s support forums suggest that enabling the feature can reduce estimated battery life by roughly 35% to 50%. The complaints involve multiple models.

In Forerunner 970 discussions, for example, users describe battery estimates falling from around 15 days to nine. Similar experiences have appeared in the Fenix 8 forums, where estimated runtimes have reportedly dropped from around two weeks to just seven or eight days.

The pattern is fairly consistent. Users are finding that turning off “OK Garmin” restores much of the estimated battery life, sometimes immediately. In certain cases, they have also needed to disable the separate Phone Assistant wake-word setting to return to their previous estimates.

Garmin says reduced battery life is expected

Garmin actually warns about this in its official documentation. Enabling the voice wake word reduces battery life, although the company doesn’t specify how much users should expect to lose.

The explanation is straightforward. The watch needs to monitor its microphone for the wake phrase throughout the day, even when voice commands aren’t being used. That requires additional power compared with activating the feature manually.

What many people don’t realise is that after installing these latest updates, the feature is automatically enabled. So they need to go into the settings to disable if they do not plan to use it.

It’s also worth noting that some Fenix 8 owners have experienced battery problems unrelated to voice activation. Not every complaint following the September firmware updates necessarily has the same cause.

For anyone noticing shorter battery life, disabling “OK Garmin” is a sensible first step. The setting can be found under the watch’s voice settings, and it’s worth checking whether the separate Phone Assistant wake word is also enabled.

Turning off hands-free activation doesn’t remove voice commands. Users can still activate them manually through the watch’s controls, without keeping the microphone listening throughout the day.

That’s probably the better arrangement for anyone who only occasionally uses voice commands. Giving up several days of estimated battery life simply to avoid pressing a button seems like a rather expensive trade-off.

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The Apple Watch Companion project popped up on GitHub on October 9, and it goes much further than just piping a few Android notifications to the watch. The software recreates enough of Apple’s own pairing system to find the watch, pair it, activate it, reconnect later and control parts of it from Android.

The missing iPhone is the important part

Apple’s official setup instructions still begin by telling users to pair their Apple Watch with an iPhone. Even Apple Watch models with cellular connectivity need an iPhone during the initial setup, so Android users cannot normally take a new or reset watch out of the box and activate it.

We have already seen phone makers chip away at that restriction. Xiaomi now lets an Apple Watch work with its Android phones, bringing calls, messages, notifications and some health data into HyperOS 4. The rather large catch is that an iPhone is still needed to set up and activate the watch before Xiaomi takes over.

The Apple Watch Companion goes further because it attempts to handle the original pairing and activation process itself. In the developer’s test, the Apple Watch was set up directly from Android without an iPhone acting as the middleman.

This is nowhere near a normal Android app

Before anyone gets too excited, the current setup is about as far from plug and play as it gets. The Android version requires a rooted phone and a Magisk module that interacts with the phone’s Bluetooth hardware. If the phrase “Magisk module” means nothing to you, this is not something you should be installing yet.

The project documentation says the Android hardware layer currently accepts only the OnePlus CPH2653, better known as the OnePlus 13. Testing has been carried out with an Apple Watch Ultra 2 running watchOS 26.2 build 23S303. That is a very specific combination.

A code update published on October 13 removed some of the hard-coded Apple Watch Ultra 2 restrictions. That should make it easier to add other models, but it does not mean those watches have suddenly been tested or confirmed to work. T

Some of the basics already work. You can see watch information, change a few settings and mess around with native watch faces. Getting an Apple Watch paired, activated and reconnecting securely to Android is the clever bit, but that does not suddenly turn it into a fully working Android smartwatch.

There are still plenty of gaps. Health and activity syncing is unfinished, calls and audio are not properly working yet, and notifications are still a work in progress. So yes, you can get past the Apple pairing setup without an iPhone, but you are still a long way from replacing Apple’s Watch app.

It is still worth noting

People have been trying to get Apple Watch working properly with Android for years, but it has always been far too messy for normal use. This project is not ready for everyday users either, but it does show that an Android phone can pair and activate the watch without an iPhone.

Making it genuinely useful will be much harder. Notifications, calls, health syncing and software updates all need to work reliably, while support would also have to expand to many more phones and Apple Watch models.

So no, this is not a reason to buy an Apple Watch for your Android phone just yet. It is still an early project for people who are happy rooting phones and dealing with unfinished software, but proving that an iPhone is not essential during pairing makes it worth watching.

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The software is free, open source and has been around for a while, but version 3.0 makes it a lot more useful. It now works through the Zepp Open Platform as a partner app, which means it can use Zepp’s official APIs and login system instead of relying completely on private workarounds. It is still very much a third-party project, though.

The clever bit is the full loop

Once connected, ZeppBridge can pull health and training records from your Zepp account and store them locally on your computer. That includes things such as sleep, heart rate, HRV, training load, workouts, recovery, stress and SpO2, although exactly what appears depends on the Amazfit device you use and the data available in your account. 

From there, you can select the dates and records you want an AI to look at. ZeppBridge currently supports ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, Doubao and Grok, so you are not tied to a particular chatbot. 

You can ask the AI to create a personalised training plan, copy that plan back into ZeppBridge, rearrange days, edit individual workout steps and then send it to a compatible Amazfit watch. That creates a fairly neat loop between your real training data, an AI coach and the device on your wrist. 

ChatGPT can query the data directly too

ZeppBridge also supports MCP, which opens up a slightly different way of using the data. Instead of constantly exporting files and explaining your recent training history, a compatible AI can query the locally stored records directly when answering questions.

That could mean asking why your recovery has been poor this week, how running volume has changed over six months, or whether sleep has deteriorated alongside a heavier training block.

The MCP server is read-only and runs locally, while ZeppBridge says the health database itself stays on the computer. When records are packaged for cloud AI services, device identifiers, MAC addresses and precise GPS data are removed by default, with detailed routes only included if the user opts in. 

There is still a cloud connection in the chain. Your Amazfit device continues syncing through the normal Zepp app and Zepp cloud before ZeppBridge retrieves the records, so this is not a replacement for the Zepp phone app.

It fills a gap in the Amazfit ecosystem

Zepp Health already uses AI inside its own software. We have previously tested its AI-powered food logging, while its watches increasingly combine readiness, sleep, training load and recovery information inside the Zepp app.

ZeppBridge takes a different approach. Instead of Zepp deciding what the AI should tell you, it gives users a way to take a much larger chunk of their own data and use the AI service they already prefer.

That will probably appeal most to people who already like digging into their training rather than someone who simply wants a morning readiness score. It also makes Amazfit data considerably easier to experiment with, particularly if you want to build your own coaching workflow instead of staying entirely inside Zepp’s interpretation of the numbers.

Source: GitHub

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This one is a bit of a surprise. TAG Heuer spent the past year making Connected look like a product it was doubling down on, not something it was preparing to shut down.

The original report actually appeared in France back in August. La Letre reported on August 25 that production of TAG Heuer Connected watches had stopped. But it is only now that the news has resurfaced more widely.

Calibre E5 was supposed to be a fresh start

The timing is what makes this particularly strange. TAG Heuer launched the Connected Calibre E5 about 12 months ago, and we wrote at the time that the company had made the unusual decision to ditch Wear OS and move to its own TAG Heuer OS.

This was not a minor update. The E5 came in 40 mm and 45 mm sizes, introduced improved battery life, added sleep tracking, HRV and SpO2 features, and moved TAG Heuer onto software developed in-house rather than relying on Google.

TAG Heuer is still selling the Calibre E5 on its website today. The UK store currently lists multiple versions from £1,350 upwards, while the wider Connected range still has its own dedicated section and product configurator. 

That makes the reported production stop look even more abrupt. TAG Heuer was still expanding the range this year, including a Formula 1 edition launched in February with dedicated F1 features, sleep tracking, sports monitoring and up to three days of battery life in low-power mode.

Sales could continue until the end of 2027

The reported shutdown does not mean Connected watches are disappearing from stores immediately. La Lettre says sales will continue until the end of next year, which suggests TAG Heuer may simply sell through remaining inventory rather than replacing the current generation.

A French follow-up from We Love Watches reported the same timeline and noted that the Calibre E5 remained in TAG Heuer’s catalogue after production had supposedly stopped. That lines up with what we can see now, with plenty of models still available directly from TAG Heuer.

What happens in the months ahead is less clear. There has been no announcement about another generation, and there is also no public commitment yet explaining how long TAG Heuer OS, health features or app support will continue once the hardware disappears from sale.

That will be important to everyone that spent upwards of $1,000 for one of these devices. A luxury mechanical watch can stay useful for decades, while a smartwatch depends on servers, apps, operating-system updates and phone compatibility.

A ten-year smartwatch experiment

TAG Heuer has been in this market for more than a decade. Its first Connected watch arrived in 2015 through a partnership with Google and Intel, and the company kept the line going through several generations while many other luxury brands either stayed away or experimented briefly.

There is one important caveat here. The company has not announced the end of Connected, and its current website gives customers no indication that the line is being wound down.

Still, if the report is correct, the Connected Calibre E5 will turn out to have been a very short-lived reset. TAG Heuer spent quite a few years trying to make the luxury smartwatch work, then finally built its own software platform, only to reportedly stop making the hardware less than a year later.

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We’ve been following the Race 3S⁠ for quite a while now, and most of the leaked details have turned out to be accurate. The October 15 launch date was also spot on. So let’s delve into what is new.

A familiar design with quite a few upgrades

The Race 3S keeps the general appearance of the Race S, with its circular display, digital crown and two additional buttons. It measures 46 x 46 x 11.4mm and weighs 56 grams including the strap. That’s slightly larger and heavier than the titanium Race S, which comes in at 45mm and 53 grams.

Suunto has gone with a titanium bezel and case back, along with sapphire crystal instead of the Gorilla Glass used on its predecessor. There are three colours to choose from, Titanium Orchid, Titanium Feather and Titanium Black. Water resistance remains at 5 ATM.

The display is still a 1.32-inch AMOLED panel with 466 x 466 resolution. However, maximum brightness increases from 600 to 2,000 nits, which should make maps and workout information easier to see in strong sunlight.

Inside, Suunto has switched from the Apollo 4 Plus processor to Apollo 510. The company says this improves responsiveness when moving through menus and loading maps. There’s also an upgraded optical heart rate sensor with six LEDs and four photodiodes, compared with four LEDs and two photodiodes on the Race S.

Storage doubles from 32GB to 64GB. That’s useful for downloadable maps, but it also gives Suunto room to introduce something that has been missing from its more expensive Race watches, offline music playback.

Battery life improves, but not quite as much as leaked

One of the bigger changes is the move to a silicon-carbon battery. This technology allows more energy to fit into a relatively compact space, and Suunto says the Race 3S has 46% more battery capacity than the Race S.

The official figures are slightly different from those in the earlier leaks. Suunto quotes up to 38 hours of dual-band GPS tracking, compared with 30 hours on the Race S. That’s an eight-hour improvement, rather than the 45 hours of dual-band GPS suggested by the leaked marketing material.

Even with the revised figures, the battery improvement is substantial for a watch that has barely changed in size. Whether that translates into noticeably better endurance with always-on display, mapping and navigation enabled remains to be seen.

AI coaching and new race planning tools

Suunto is also making a bigger push into personalised training. The Race 3S introduces a new version of Suunto AI Coach, which uses information about training load, recovery, sleep, HRV and fitness goals to provide recommendations.

Rather than simply presenting training statistics, users can ask the coach questions about their progress and get answers based on their data. It can also help create structured workouts, running plans and routes that can be saved in the Suunto app and transferred to the watch.

This is a different approach from the more basic AI coaching already available in Suunto’s ecosystem. The new service launches first with Race 3S, with support for compatible existing watches planned for early 2027.

There’s a subscription element, though. Buyers who activate their Race 3S before December 31, 2026 receive three months of Suunto AI Coach at no charge. Continued use after the trial requires a paid subscription, although the regular training analysis and existing Suunto app features remain available without one.

Another addition is Suunto Race Planner. It combines a course’s elevation profile, expected weather and the runner’s goal to work out a pacing strategy. During a race, the watch will show whether you’re ahead of or behind the planned pace, making it particularly relevant for trail events with substantial elevation changes.

Race Planner isn’t ready at launch, however. Suunto says it will arrive through a future app and firmware update, with no firm date announced.

The same applies to offline music. The Race 3S will support locally stored MP3 and WAV files played through Bluetooth headphones, removing the need to bring a phone for music. But that capability also requires a post-launch software update.

Other familiar features remain, including free worldwide offline maps, dual-band GNSS, Climb Guidance, ZoneSense, recovery tracking and more than 120 sports modes. Those are already central to the Suunto experience, as we found in our Suunto Race 2 review⁠.

Price and availability

The pricing is set at $599. You can check out availability in your region on Suunto’s website.

For anyone choosing between the Race S and Race 3S, the decision largely comes down to the display, battery life and upgraded materials. The older model still offers dual-band GPS, offline maps and most of Suunto’s core training features, so it hasn’t suddenly become outdated.

The additions that could make the biggest difference are the upgraded heart rate sensor and new training software. Offline music is also a nice addition, particularly after its absence from the Race 2⁠.

What’s missing from today’s launch is Suunto Race 3. That device has also been leaked and we expect a official release in the weeks ahead.

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Intervals Pro used training and recovery data pulled through Intervals.icu, a popular training platform used by endurance athletes. Intervals.icu itself is running normally, but its developer says Garmin’s updated terms will likely prevent Garmin-sourced data from being passed onwards through the platform’s API.

Intervals Pro billing has stopped, and any unused prepaid time is being refunded automatically. Users have until October 19 to log in and download their coaching conversations

What Garmin is changing

The issue is not Garmin sending your workouts to another service. That still works. If you connect Garmin directly to a platform such as Intervals.icu, your activities can continue to arrive there.

The problem comes at the next step. Garmin appears to be restricting whether that platform can then make the same Garmin-sourced data available to another app or service unless Garmin has approved it.

Intervals.icu developer David Tinker says the new conditions appeared in Garmin’s developer portal without advance notice. He expects the platform will have to block Garmin data from its API, although discussions with Garmin are still ongoing and nothing has been finalised yet.

That uncertainty was enough for Intervals Pro to pull the plug. The service relied heavily on data coming through Intervals.icu to analyse training history, sleep, HRV, training load and upcoming workouts, then use that information for AI-based coaching.

This could go beyond one small coaching app

Not every training service has its own direct Garmin integration. Smaller developers often connect to a platform that already collects data from multiple wearable brands, then build their own coaching, analysis or AI tools on top of that.

Garmin’s approach could make that much harder. If a service wants access to Garmin data, it may increasingly need its own approved relationship with Garmin rather than getting that information indirectly through another platform.

There is also a possibility that the restriction will apply to older data. Tinker said on October 12 that he expects complete Garmin activities, FIT files, data streams and wellness information to be covered, including historical data that originally arrived through Garmin’s API. He stressed that this is still being discussed with Garmin rather than a final decision. 

Files uploaded by users themselves may be treated differently. An independent project called Garmin Intervals Bridge is already experimenting with replacing Garmin-imported activities with original FIT files uploaded by the athlete, which could keep that information available to other authorised tools. But this is very much a workaround rather than an official solution. 

For most Garmin owners, nothing changes today. Garmin activities can still sync into Intervals.icu as normal, and the restrictions being discussed concern what happens when that Garmin-sourced data is then passed on to another service.

But the closure of Intervals Pro shows where things may be heading. Garmin appears to want more control over where its data goes after it reaches another platform, and smaller apps built on top of that data are likely to feel the effects first.

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So far the rollout has only reached 20% of users. So plenty of owners will not see the update yet.

Garmin finally names the problem

Garmin’s changelog is unusually direct about the main fix. It says version 23.40 fixes the optical heart-rate sensor not working, which is a much clearer acknowledgment than the troubleshooting advice affected owners had been receiving.

This was not a case of slightly inaccurate readings during a run. On affected watches, the green and red sensor lights went completely dark and wrist heart rate disappeared, including during recorded activities.

That also created a knock-on problem for the health data built around the optical sensor. Owners reported losing overnight HRV, Pulse Ox, sleep information and Body Battery data, turning an expensive multisport watch into a far less useful device until the sensor came back to life.

The earlier fixes were all over the place

We first reported the Fenix 8 heart-rate failure on October 3. Some owners managed to recover the sensor after switching the watch off for more than 90 seconds, while others needed a factory reset or firmware reinstall.

Those methods were never dependable. In some cases the sensor returned only to stop again, while other watches remained without heart rate after every suggested reset and reinstall.

Garmin support even told one owner that the watch might need replacing if reinstalling the software failed. Version 23.40 now confirms that Garmin had a software fix to make, so affected users should install this release before treating the sensor as failed hardware. 

The timing also adds another corrective release to a fairly untidy stretch of Fenix software. Garmin previously had to issue version 22.44 after display complaints, and 23.40 arrives only a few weeks after the much larger 23.39 update.

There are three other changes

Heart rate is the headline fix, but it is not the whole changelog. Garmin says 23.40 also fixes a crash when users enable active heart-rate broadcasting through Garmin Connect Mobile, along with a problem that allowed notifications to make noise while silent mode was enabled.

The final entry simply mentions other minor issues, without explaining what they are. This is still a compact hotfix rather than another feature release, so owners should not expect new training tools or interface changes.

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Just a day after the MARQ Gen 3 was spotted on Garmin’s support pages, the company has officially launched its third-generation luxury smartwatch collection. There are six models, with prices ranging from $2,500 to $3,100.

The new lineup consists of MARQ Athlete, Adventurer, Aviator, Commander, Golfer and Diver. All six get larger AMOLED displays, LTE and satellite connectivity, expanded mapping and Garmin’s latest health and fitness features.

What’s new with MARQ Gen 3

The previous generation arrived in October 2022, so Garmin has taken four years to deliver a full refresh. There have been special editions along the way, including the MARQ Carbon collection, but the underlying hardware was starting to show its age.

The new watches feature 47 mm Grade 5 titanium cases, sapphire crystal lenses and ceramic bezel inlays. Each measures 15 mm thick and comes with a 1.4-inch AMOLED display, up from 1.2 inches on the previous generation.

Storage has increased from 32GB to 128GB, while battery life reaches up to 18 days in smartwatch mode or seven days with the always-on display enabled.

Perhaps the biggest addition is embedded inReach connectivity. All six watches support LTE calling, messaging and location sharing without a phone nearby, along with satellite messaging and emergency SOS through Garmin Response. These services require a subscription.

Garmin has also added a speaker, microphone and LED flashlight. Other additions include the ECG app in supported regions, newer health and recovery metrics, and worldwide TopoActive maps with address search.

These changes bring MARQ much closer to Garmin’s latest high-end sports watches in terms of functionality. Previously, buyers were paying a considerable premium for hardware that lacked some features already available elsewhere in Garmin’s range.

Six models with different specialities

MARQ Athlete is the entry point at $2,500. It has a silicone strap, VO2 max markings on the bezel and Garmin’s full collection of running and training features.

MARQ Adventurer costs $2,700 and comes with an Italian leather strap and compass bezel. It focuses on hiking, navigation and climbing, including preloaded ClimbPro information.

MARQ Golfer is priced at $2,800, with an 18-hole bezel indicator, woven strap and more than 43,000 preloaded golf courses. Virtual Caddie and green contour data are among its specialist features, although some require a Garmin Golf membership.

The other three models each cost $3,100.

MARQ Aviator features aviation weather, flight mapping and UTC markings. MARQ Commander adds tactical features including stealth mode, night vision compatibility and an Applied Ballistics solver.

MARQ Diver is the new addition to the family. It supports scuba diving, apnea and snorkelling to depths of 40 metres, with sealed buttons for underwater use. Garmin has also included boating features such as autopilot control and tack assist.

Each edition has different straps, bezel markings and watch faces, but the underlying hardware is pretty much identical.

Garmin says the collection is available now, although broader retail availability is reportedly scheduled for November 5. You can check the watches out on the company’s website.

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