October 12, 2023

Boasting 130 layers of carbon fiber, the Garmin MARQ Carbon assortment is now 62% lighter and constructed for top efficiency.

Simply over 4 years in the past, we launched the world to our most prestigious, elegant and opulent set of watches, unveiling the unique MARQ® assortment. Combining premium design with an genuine characteristic set, MARQ has been the right match for folks searching for a luxurious smartwatch that makes a speciality of their ardour. We lately revitalized this assortment with three distinct timepieces that spotlight one in all our newest improvements, Fused Carbon Fiber™.

Constructed from 130 particular person layers and machined from a stable block of Fused Carbon Fiber, the MARQ Carbon assortment (MARQ® Athlete, MARQ® and Golfer, MARQ® Commander) additionally options an AMOLED touchscreen show and a domed sapphire lens with distinctive options for every watch in addition to as much as 16 days of battery life.

Nevertheless it’s the revolutionary carbon fiber construction that makes them the lightest MARQ timepieces ever created. For a lot of high-performance designs, akin to golf golf equipment, bike frames, tennis racquets and hockey sticks, carbon fiber has develop into the fabric of selection. As a result of it’s 62% lighter than titanium, designers usually go for it over titanium and metal due to its excessive strength-to-weight ratio in addition to its adaptability.

To create the watch’s physique, 130 sheets of this carbon fiber are manually rotated into place to maximise energy in sure areas of the watch that want it most. The stack of sheets is then positioned in a particular press that makes use of warmth and stress to fuse them collectively right into a stable block of carbon fiber. This course of makes the watch’s outer layer extraordinarily robust and resilient to the affect of not solely on a regular basis put on but in addition outside components related to utilization. The watch housing therapy can take as much as eight hours to kind into its remaining form.

Reworking the Fused Carbon Fiber block right into a completed product is a multistep course of that entails exact slicing, shaping and machining. After that, the watch is submerged into an enclosure of beads that excellent the floor and end.

One of many greatest challenges in working with carbon is that it naturally absorbs wi-fi power and may alter or block GPS, BLUETOOTH® or Wi-Fi® indicators in some situations. Years of Garmin ingenuity and innovation went into creating an antenna that might work with a carbon fiber watch construction. These antennas are examined relentlessly earlier than and after manufacturing, together with after placement into the watch.

Every MARQ watch goes by way of a number of rounds of testing to make sure flawless operation in tough circumstances, akin to ocean saltwater, uncovered mountain terrain and excessive climate, together with rain, wind and snow, in addition to brilliant daylight.

The variations between the three watches are refined but substantial.

The MARQ Athlete is designed for the competitor in all of us, mixing cutting-edge coaching, efficiency and restoration metrics. Along with each day exercise monitoring, customers have a large number of preloaded sports activities profiles to select from, in addition to animated exercises for cardio, energy, yoga and Pilates.

The MARQ Golfer helps customers maximize their time on and off the hyperlinks. It comes preloaded with profiles of greater than 43,000 programs worldwide and offers gamers with membership strategies based mostly on wind, elevation and their swing information by way of the Digital Caddie characteristic. It additionally makes use of enhanced PlaysLike distance to let golfers understand how far every shot is taking part in with yardage adjusted for taking part in circumstances.

The MARQ Commander is your co-pilot in tactical operations, permitting you to toggle between a daily and stealth mode the place your GPS place and wi-fi communication are neither saved nor shared. If safety turns into a difficulty, the Commander has a kill swap that clears your machine of all person reminiscence. It additionally contains a dual-position format that shows two units of coordinate methods on one display and Jumpmaster, a preloaded tactical exercise and projected waypoints.

Store the MARQ Carbon assortment right here.

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