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Overview
Excellent mid-level outdoor recreation watch.
Features
- Rugged multisport watch with 45 mm fibre-reinforced polymer case
- Water-rated to 100 metres, thermal and shock resistance, scratch resistance lens
- Multiple global navigation satellite systems support - GPS, GLONASS and Galileo
- ABC Sensors - 3-axis compass, altimeter and barometer
- Preloaded built-in sport apps: running, cycling, swimming and more
- Track HIIT workouts including AMRAP, EMOM and Tabata
- Measures VO2 max, suggest daily workouts and expected recovery times
- MTB Dynamics: Tracks details of every ride with mountain biking metrics
- Tracback routing - Navigate same route back to your starting point
- Wrist-based heart rate sensor
- Monitors stress, sleep, energy levels, Pulse OX, fitness age and women's health
- Smart notifications: texts, emails, alerts and social media
- Full Garmin Connect IQ app support
- Incident detection; send live location to contacts when pair with phone
- Battery life: up to 28 days in smartwatch mode, 30 hours in GPS mode, 70 hours in UltraTrac mode
What's New vs Garmin Instinct
- Now available in 2 sizes; standard 45 mm and smaller 40 mm
- Display resolution increased to 176x176 and 156x156, respectively
- Significant improvements to battery life
- Wrist-based heart rate updated to Garmin Elevate Gen4 Optical HR Sensor
- Fully compatible with Garmin Connect IQ
- Additional activity and sport profiles, apps and metrics making watch a true multisport watch
- Added HIIT workouts, golf support, MTB Grit & Flow, Pulse OX, VO2 Max, training load and recovery
Product Screen Shots
Package Includes
- Instinct 2 Graphite
- Charging/data cradle
- Documentation
Technical Specification
Garmin Instinct 2 - Graphite | 45 mm | Product Code: 010-02626-00 |
General | |
Lens material | Chemically strengthened glass |
Bezel material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
Case material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
QuickFit watch band compatible | Yes (22 mm) |
Strap material | Silicone |
Physical size | 45 x 45 x 14.50 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-230 mm |
Display Size | Custom, two-window design; 23 x 23 mm |
Display Resolution | 176 x 176 pixels |
Display Type | Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
Weight | 52 g |
Battery life | Smartwatch: Up to 28 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days GPS: Up to 30 hours Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 70 hours Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 32 days |
Water rating | 10 ATM |
Memory/history | 32 MB |
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) | yes |
Daily Resting Heart Rate | yes |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
Respiration rate (24x7) | yes |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day) |
Fitness age | yes |
Body Battery Energy Monitor | yes |
All-day stress tracking | 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 |
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor | yes |
Barometric altimeter | yes |
Compass | 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 - customisable low power watch | yes |
Controls smartphone music | yes |
Find my phone | yes |
Find my watch | yes |
VIRB camera remote | yes |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
Pairs with Garmin Golf app | yes |
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | 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 travelled | yes |
Intensity minutes | yes |
TrueUp | yes |
Move IQ | yes |
Garmin Connect Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Fitness equipment/gym | |
Available gym activity profiles | Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, HIIT, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, and Yoga |
Cardio workouts | yes |
Strength workouts | yes |
HIIT workouts | yes |
Automatic rep counting | 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 |
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) | yes (using ANT+) |
Respiration rate (during exercise) | yes |
GPS speed and distance | yes |
Customisable screen(s) | yes |
Customisable activity profiles | yes |
Auto Pause | yes |
Interval training | yes |
Advanced workouts | yes |
Downloadable training plans | yes |
Power Modes - customisable in-activity battery settings | 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 (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 effect (aerobic) | yes |
Training effect (anaerobic) | yes |
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | yes |
Improved recovery time | yes |
Daily suggested workouts | yes |
Customisable alerts | yes |
Audio prompts | yes |
Finish time | yes |
Virtual partner | yes |
Race an activity | yes |
Auto multisport activities | yes |
Multi-sport | yes |
Course guidance | yes |
Touch and/or button lock | yes |
Hot keys | yes |
Auto scroll | yes |
Activity history on watch | yes |
>Physio TrueUp | 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) |
Run workouts | yes |
Race predictor | 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) | manual |
Digital scorecard | yes |
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | yes |
Auto CourseView updates | yes |
Green View with manual pin position | yes |
Hazards and course targets | yes |
PinPointer | yes |
Round timer/odometer | yes |
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | yes |
Tournament legal | yes |
Outdoor recreation | |
Available outdoor recreation profiles | Hiking, Climbing, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Fishing, Tactical |
Point-to-point navigation | yes |
Bread crumbtrail in real time | yes |
Back to start | yes |
TracBack | yes |
UltraTrac mode | yes |
Elevation profile | yes |
Distance to destination | yes |
Barometric trend indicator with storm alert | yes |
Trail run auto climb | yes |
Vertical speed | yes |
Total ascent/descent | yes |
Future elevation plot | yes |
Compatible with BaseCamp | 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 |
Cycling features | |
Available cycling profiles | Biking, Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel Biking, Cyclocross, Bike Commuting, Bike Touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking |
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 |
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 | 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 |
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews for the Garmin Instinct 2 - Graphite | 45 mm.