Swiss Made Watch

Weight: Epix 2 wins easily 31g difference. It doesn’t seem like much on paper. After 8 hours of trail running, you feel it. The Fenix ​​8 remains comfortable, but the Epix 2 forgets it’s there. This is a real advantage if you run a lot or have a thin wrist. During our mountain trail tests:

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Comparison by budget Less than 80€ Do you have a small budget? Here are the best G-Shocks: DW-9052 (€69) – Low price, solid and reliable DW-5600E (€79) – The essential, the best value for money Both of these watches are excellent. They will last for years. Between 80 and 120€ Do you have an average

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Contactless payment: Gadget or really useful? The 255 can pay without a phone. The 165 no. If you’re running without a wallet and stopping at a coffee shop, it’s convenient. Otherwise, it’s marketing. Honestly ? You have your phone or a map. It’s not a game-changer. Music versions: Embedded music Both exist in Music versions.

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Readability born in noise, cold and urgency Before becoming an aesthetic code, oversized numerals, sharp hands, clear contrasts, the readability of pilot’s watches is a vital necessity. In a vintage cockpit, you don’t look at the time: you catch it with your eyes. Motor vibration, thick gloves, variable light, stress, altitude, condensation… The watch is

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The Battery: Garmin Crushes Garmin: 11 days in watch mode, 6 days with GPS. Apple: 36 hours in normal mode, 72 hours in economy mode. It’s not a joke. The Apple Watch Ultra 3 lasts 1.5 days. The Garmin lasts 11 days. That’s a 7x difference. Apple tells you that this is normal, that you

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Which connected watch for swimming? The direct answer You have three profiles: You occasionally swim in a pool → Apple Watch 11. Correct swimming tracking, notifications, contactless payment. You have an iPhone. It’s good. You’re doing serious swimming, open water or pool → Garmin Swim 2. Ultra-precise GPS, SWOLF (swimming efficiency) tracking, crazy battery life.

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The Screen: Huawei Wins On Paper, Garmin in Reality The Huawei has a larger screen (1.82″ vs 1.3″). On paper, it’s better. In reality, it’s worse. The Garmin’s AMOLED screen is denser, more vibrant, more readable in the sun. The Huawei also has an AMOLED screen, but not as good. The colors are dull. Under

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The Screen: Garmin Crushes The Redmi has a black and white LCD screen. It’s basic. It’s like looking at a watch from the 2000s. The Garmin has a color AMOLED screen. It’s 2025. The colors explode. Black is really black. It’s beautiful. Yes, the Redmi has a larger screen (2.0″ vs 1.3″). But a big

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If you watched Magnum as a child, lying on the carpet in front of the CRT television, I have bittersweet news: you are probably old enough to have already owned a Rolex or, at the very least, to be able to afford one today without asking your banker for permission. Take comfort: Thomas Magnum never

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What we tested for 6 weeks We wore this watch every day. Running, cycling, swimming, sleeping, stress. We even tried to break it. She’s holding on. The AMOLED screen: It’s luxury Compared to the LCD screens of classic Garmin watches, AMOLED changes everything. The colors explode. Black is really black. Under the sun, it is

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A bracelet born from a need: reliability, movement, real life In watchmaking, certain innovations are necessary because they answer a simple question: how to wear a watch without thinking about it? Before being an external sign of status, the metal bracelet is first and foremost a pragmatic solution. It must resist sweat, water, everyday shocks,

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After the presidential wrists, the politicians’ watches and their more or less “republican” timepieces, a change of scenery: here, we leave the gilding for cast iron, the protocol for protein. Tibo InShape wears a watch which matches the size of his muscles (and his obsession with performance) quite well with its enormous 51mm diameter case.

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As part of our “Who wears what” section, after looking at Sarah Knafo’s wrist (read again here: what watch does Sarah Knafo wear), we move on to another political personality with a more… jeweler style. Rachida DatiMinister of Culture at the time I write these lines and announced candidate for mayor of Paris, has never

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Looking for a watch that can withstand everything you throw at it, without emptying your wallet? You are in the right place. Whether diving in the ocean, climbing mountains, or simply surviving the urban jungle, these sturdy watches are here for you. Here are five options affordable And reliable who won’t let you down. For

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The day precision became a weapon There are revolutions that arrive with fanfare, and others that become obvious, without noise, until the moment they overturn the table. At the end of the 1960s, an innovation from Japan and matured in laboratories around the world shook the most prestigious edifice of European industry: the quartz watch.

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From constraint to style: when the tool becomes a school In the history of watchmaking, few terrains have shaped design as much as the battlefield. Military watches were not intended to seduce: they had to survive, tell the time to the nearest second, be read at night, resist mud, salt and heat. And yet, ironically,

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3) “Okay, but is it dangerous?” The 5 classic fears, sorted neatly We’ll take them one by one. Without theater. 1) Waves at night: the loudest fear The watches mainly use Bluetooth Low Energy. Exposure level, we are on low powers, and above all very intermittent (it sends, it is silent, it sends back). The

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Beneath the surface, a simple idea: measure time to survive Before becoming style signatures in the office, diving watches were born from a vital imperative: knowing how many minutes remain before having to wind up. In the 1940s and 50s, while Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan democratized underwater autonomy and combat swimmers increased the number

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