Buy a MARQ now?

adambern said:

Also, any 'gotchas' on the MARQ that I should be aware of? (I've been reading the forums).

• Whist HR - shows delirium.
• Altimeter - shows delirium.
• Barometer - random number generator  
• PulseOx - nonsense 
• Floors - +/- 10 
• GPS/Galileo/Glonass - where am I ?!!!! 

MARQ is a titanium box. It's all! As cheap inside as Vivoactive 3

As you can see MARQ £1600 and Fenix 6S for $549.99 have same bug and firmwares:  

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/marq-series/251620/marq-series---14-72-public-beta

forums.garmin.com/.../fenix-6-series---14-72-public-beta

Depends on what you want... Marq looks like a watch (more than the other models) so if you wear it 24/7 like me than go ahead. Or wait some more months (who knows how many) for Marq Mark 2 :-)

I did the contrary, bought an Apple Watch 6 to replace my Marq Athlete. Marq is far too heavy for running and I realized that I do not need all the data. I run 3-4 times a week, probably going to train for a fast half marathon or fast marathon. Not that the Apple watch is ideal, but it's light, I like the versatility, the rings and LTE.  

I have tried different wearables. Whoop, Fitbit, Apple Watch. For the moment I am very happy with Garmin and my Marq commander. Despite the things on the forum, mine works flawlessly. I use it also for sleep tracking and this is really motivating. Trying to improve sleep all the time. And I do not need a phone to check the stats, it is all on the watch.

... I ordered the Adventurer this afternoon. I'm sure it'll be fine - I've spent hours researching and reading, primarily because I cannot physically see one. Fingers crossed.

I think you'll enjoy it - 1.5 years with mine and never had an issue that wasn't resolved satisfactorily. It holds up well and looks awesome.

You just don't want to believe that there are mistаkеs in there that make the MARQ сhеар. 

You are not interested that the case is not made of titanium, but of 80% aluminum alloy with the addition of titanium.

That the price of a sapphire crystal is only $3.00

Inside MARQ, the same сhеар nonsense as Vivoaktive.

If you look at Garmin history - the MARQ series introduced before the current Forerunner 945/Fenix 6 electronics (same electronics inside more or less)

Announcement dates:

Garmin MARQ : March 13th 2019

Garmin Forerunner 945: April 30th 2019 / Forerunner 935 March 29th 2017 / Forerunner 920XT March 16th 2015

Garmin Fenix 6 : August 29th 2019 / Fenix 5+ June 18th 2018 / Fenix 5 Jan 4th 2017 / Fenix 3 Jan 5th 2015

As it seems all the Firmware updates have gone into "bug fixing only" mode - I don't think we are far from MARQ Mark II  MARQ Plus? 

So I would at least hold my horses until April as Garmin usually "reasonably" consistent about release schedules. As MARQ does not have history - but Forerunner and Fenix have - both have been updated biennially roughly around the same season.

Garmin seem to have moved the Fenix series from Winter release to Summer starting with the Fenix 5+.

So that might change again unless Garmin does the same "trick" and release ultra high end first (MARQ) and then Forerunner 955 - so people who really want Fenix 7 will be tiptoeing between Marq and Forerunner. I don't know how well that worked on the Marq sales. But I do think a lot of people who wanted Fenix 6 bought the Forerunner 945 as it was a reasonable improvement on the the Fenix 5 series. 

But maybe COVID have thrown spanners in the works - like chip shortages and lack of development teams ability to work together efficiently. That could delay all series updates.