Garmin Fenix 7

The Garmin Fenix 7 is built for every — and any — adventure.

The Fenix 7 is Garmin's most advanced multi-sports watch to date, but its new training tools have been carefully designed to make them accessible to a wider range of athletes. Stats such as stamina and training load are presented in a way that's simple to interpret, and clearly show the effects of this week's workouts on your longer term fitness. The new touchscreen is a bonus for browsing through menus, though fans of the Fenix series' five-button navigation can choose to disable it and stick with what they know.

The Garmin Fenix 7 is a beast of a smartwatch and improves on the already excellent Fenix 6, which is a great achievement. Just like previous Fenix models, the Fenix 7 is big, bold and works well as an outdoor, running and triathlon watch; but very few people will be able to make the most of the thousand features it has.

This is more watch than most people need with a considerable price tag many won’t be able to afford. But if your budget stretches – and your fitness pursuits demand it – the impressive combination of rugged durability, serious battery endurance, excellent navigation skills and the richest suite of training analysis, wellness and smartwatch skills, make this the best all-rounder sports watch you can buy right now.

The Fenix 7X gives you the best of what Garmin's latest Fenix range has to offer. You get some of the most impressive sports tracking, mapping and navigation features you'll find on any sports watch let alone a Garmin. If you want it to behave like a smartwatch then it can do that too. The question really here is whether having maps already preloaded and that flashlight are extras worthy of spending the most on a new Fenix. You really have to be sold on the size and getting the best battery life from a Fenix right now. If you can live without those extras and happy to still get fantastic but not the best battery life, you'll likely be better served by a cheaper Fenix 7 model instead.

Garmin’s latest generation of the Fenix line has made some small but welcome improvements, better GPS accuracy and longer battery life chief among them. In this price range, the only real rival to the Fenix 7’s supremacy is Garmin’s own Epix 2 watch.

The Fenix 7 is clearly an improvement on its predecessor, with a massively increased battery life, a clear touchscreen display and even greater emphasis on durability thanks to the tough, premium materials it is fashioned from. It's a lovely thing to behold and use on a daily basis, offering bags of fitness data and features that suit pretty much every outdoor pursuit you can think of.

It’s all impressive stuff and for the serious triathlete – and let’s be honest, you’d have to be serious to invest this sort of money – you can’t go wrong. It’s a watch that’s evolved from its outdoor-activity roots and, whereas in the past, we’d have directed you to the Forerunner range, now we’d have no hesitation guiding you to the Fenix 7.