Maggie’s Garmin $3K watch

[db2000]

Damn. Garmin sells a few chronos and suddenly they’re in the $3K watch business

 

[CMP70306]

I mean their watches predate the chrono by several years, I believe the first generation of those watches came out in 2019 and were around $1,500 to $2,500 depending on the model.

 

[db2000]

I mean their watches predate the chrono by several years, I believe the first generation of those watches came out in 2019 and were around $1,500 to $2,500 depending on the model.

Ahh. Yeah pass

 

[CMP70306]

Ahh. Yeah pass

Yeah I paid like $500 or $600 for my Epix Gen 2 and it has pretty much the same capabilities.

 

[D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷]

My phone keeps great time.

 

[Gemsbok]

Tactix 7 powered by AB...$1600

 

[EddieNFL]

My phone keeps great time.

I can have my phone in my hand and i will still look at my watch. Of course, I lived 2/3s of my life without a cillphone.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

“Tool watch.”

Yeah, great marketing!

But at $3k for a tacticool time teller… it is indeed a watch for complete tools!

Sirhr

 

[UNRL Ghandi]

I love these "too expensive" threads in a place where we have $4k scopes in $500 mounts on top of $6k rifles that weigh 22 lbs resting in a $1500 tripod shooting bullets that are $2/round and we use $3k range finding binos so we can shoot targets we can't eat that our buddies look at with $4k spotting scopes.

For utility and cost a Tikka and Timex is all you need, right boys? Anything else and you're just retarded for buying and the companies are retarded for selling.

 

[E. Bryant]

Garmin also makes the Instinct which IMO is the best smart watch, and the first-gen version can be purchased for $199.

I know watch guys like to think that wearing expensive jewelry will impress other dudes, but a $3200 "smart watch" to me is indication of a failed intelligence test.

That being said, the AB version of the Tactix is frickin cool.

 

[hlee]

The name tells you who they are marketed to. Like the Cyber Truck, this is a watch for the modern tool.

 

[hlee]

I can have my phone in my hand and i will still look at my watch. Of course, I lived 2/3s of my life without a cillphone.

I have, sadly, gone the other way. I can be wearing a watch and reach for my phone to check the time…

 

[D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷]

I love these "too expensive" threads in a place where we have $4k scopes in $500 mounts on top of $6k rifles that weigh 22 lbs resting in a $1500 tripod shooting bullets that are $2/round and we use $3k range finding binos so we can shoot targets we can't eat that our buddies look at with $4k spotting scopes.

For utility and cost a Tikka and Timex is all you need, right boys? Anything else and you're just retarded for buying and the companies are retarded for selling.

Don’t be silly. My phones optical zoom is trash.

 

[DangerDave]

Casio GA-100. Bought it for $90 and replaced the battery recently after four years.

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

I wear the watch my guys gave me when I retired. I use it to see what time it is whenever I am at a place that I don't have my cellphone - mostly military funerals.

I don't wear my watch otherwise . . . because my guys gave it to me when I retired . . . and I don't want to get it damaged.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

I love these "too expensive" threads in a place where we have $4k scopes in $500 mounts on top of $6k rifles that weigh 22 lbs resting in a $1500 tripod shooting bullets that are $2/round and we use $3k range finding binos so we can shoot targets we can't eat that our buddies look at with $4k spotting scopes.

For utility and cost a Tikka and Timex is all you need, right boys? Anything else and you're just retarded for buying and the companies are retarded for selling.

But if we buy the watch then we can’t buy the scope

 

[Hayden#69]

I have the Quantix 5 and LOVE it. Buddy of mine got it for me at a big discount since he has his own Marine Co. Had it for yrs now. The Tactix 7 is my next one.

Hayden.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I love these "too expensive" threads in a place where we have $4k scopes in $500 mounts on top of $6k rifles that weigh 22 lbs resting in a $1500 tripod shooting bullets that are $2/round and we use $3k range finding binos so we can shoot targets we can't eat that our buddies look at with $4k spotting scopes.

For utility and cost a Tikka and Timex is all you need, right boys? Anything else and you're just retarded for buying and the companies are retarded for selling.

Look Ghandi... if you want to take a vow of poverty and make your own salt and spin your own robes... that's on you.

I'll drop whatever I want on cool stuff. But a Garmin Watch has a cost of goods of about $36... So there is that!

Now go back to your vegan curry! (And make enough for me. I love Curry.)

Cheers.

Sirhr

 

[jmp1]

Anyone here who is shocked by the price of a Garmin anything obviously hasn't priced their very nice line of avionics. Great stuff.....expensive as all get out!!

 

[ShootnFool8]

Its been on my list to get. Just after I pay for upcoming surgery. But so is the tactix 8. Nothing wrong with getting the watch one wants.

 

[Slash0311]

I have a Garmin Forerunner 735tx for ultra marathons and tracking time and pace. I think I paid about $300. Been very satisfied but $3000 for any watch is crazy.

 

[UNRL Ghandi]

Look Ghandi... if you want to take a vow of poverty and make your own salt and spin your own robes... that's on you.

I'll drop whatever I want on cool stuff. But a Garmin Watch has a cost of goods of about $36... So there is that!

Now go back to your vegan curry! (And make enough for me. I love Curry.)

Cheers.

Sirhr

Dearest Sirhr,

I'm a Tac Ops ninja. Tikka and Timex is not my battle cry. Poverty knocks at my door holding cool stuff and I answer.

I can't believe you called me the V word. Call me a douche, cunt, motherlicker, you name it, but a vegan? I know this is the Bear Pit but c'mon, that's taking it too far.

Love,
Your gluten free friend - Ghandi

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I always make my curry with beef anyway.. it’s like eating someone’s auntie!!!

Carry on fellow Ninja! You are doing good work!

Sirhr

 

[D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷]

Dearest Sirhr,

I'm a Tac Ops ninja. Tikka and Timex is not my battle cry. Poverty knocks at my door holding cool stuff and I answer.

I can't believe you called me the V word. Call me a douche, cunt, motherlicker, you name it, but a vegan? I know this is the Bear Pit but c'mon, that's taking it too far.

Love,
Your gluten free friend - Ghandi

TacOps ninja gonna ninja.

 

[akmike47]

I got a rugged carbon fiber watch for almost a tenth of that

 

[Sniperwannabee]

I got a rugged carbon fiber watch for almost a tenth of that
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The Casio g shock has been the standard for indestructible watches forever

 

[HPIguy]

If you have the disposable income, that's really not out of line for a nice watch.

However, for $3200 I get a ratty ass cloth band? The Aviator is $1,000 cheaper and is Titanium, and much nicer looking, to me.

My biggest issue with high dollar "smart" watches is what happens when the little capacitor inside no longer holds a charge? Because it's now a $3k paperweight unless they can replace it, which I highly doubt in today's everything is disposable society. For my $3k, I'd be finding a nice Omega, Seiko Grandmaster, used Rolex, Ball, etc. A nice mechanical diver as I'm pretty hard on watches. It'll outlive me, and likely never need serviced.

 

[cas6969]

It better tell me how fast my bullets are going.


I don't care to spend lots of money of short term disposable items like electronics.

 

[roostercogburn98]

The Casio g shock has been the standard for indestructible watches forever

Laughs in two busted ones over my lifetime.

Granted one for run over by a truck, so I’ll give it a pass. The other one is a fail on G shock, and their CS responses were the final straw

 

[akmike47]

Laughs in two busted ones over my lifetime.

Granted one for run over by a truck, so I’ll give it a pass. The other one is a fail on G shock, and their CS responses were the final straw

I’m easy on mine, I’m sure I could break it.

 

[roostercogburn98]

I’m easy on mine, I’m sure I could break it.

sure anything is breakable, I get that. I’m more upset with the CS response from Casio than anything.

I’ll let this thread about the tools and their tools get back on track