Pleasantly Surprised - Instinct 2X

I confirm, this watch is great, we are close to the ultimate watch.

We are dealing with a watch that can FINALLY operate in unlimited autonomy thanks to solar charging, except of course if we use the GPS continuously.

The monochrome screen does not bother me at all, I find it much more readable in certain conditions than my enduro 2 and tactix 7 pro, and unlike the other instincts, it is larger and therefore FINALLY readable more easily, even the small print.

To put my grain of salt and answer those who absolutely want amoled, no! especially not, this monochrome screen is probably the best there is.

Finally, in general the forums are there to complain or find help, I just want to say congratulations garmin, when we see the progress made since the launch of the first fenix more than 10 years ago, I don't I've never been disappointed by garmin, and I must have had almost all the fenix and tactix models and then the instincts from the start, so to say...

@kiecherb   Fixed it for you:

I confirm, this watch is great, we are close to the ultimate watch. We are dealing with a watch that can FINALLY operate in unlimited autonomy thanks to solar charging, except of course if we use the GPS continuously. The monochrome screen does not bother me at all, I find it much more readable in certain conditions than my enduro 2 and tactix 7 pro, and unlike the other instincts, it is larger and therefore FINALLY readable more easily, even the small print. To put my grain of salt and answer those who absolutely want amoled, no! especially not, this monochrome screen is probably the best there is. Finally, in general the forums are there to complain or find help, I just want to say congratulations garmin, when we see the progress made since the launch of the first fenix more than 10 years ago, I don't I've never been disappointed by garmin, and I must have had almost all the fenix and tactix models and then the instincts from the start, so to say...

HTH

Given what you said you like about it, I wonder what you would have thought about the FR 255.  It's kind of in between, with light and comfortable plastic and a big color MIP screen.  Lots more memory than the Instinct 2 so can run some heavier CIQ apps or store many more recorded tracks.

No solar, but enough battery to be charging weekly rather than daily. I get about two weeks from a full charge with an hour of GPS time per day and 24x7 heart rate monitoring and sleep tracking. But, I turn off the phone link except to sync once or twice a week, so I get better life than someone who is using the smartphone integration.

I’m quite happy myself, I very much like the flashlight feature on it.

I dork it out though, I wear my Ultra on my left wrist (health, notifications, diving) and then use my 2x as my “watch” and gadgets.

I could care less about the two watch look. Been doing it for years.

I prefer the larger watches (30mm+), and I never really use the CIQ apps on the watch anyway.

I wore my AWU on my other wrist just to compare the accuracy during a workout.

I've been waiting almost 3 weeks for graphite colour in UK, the more read about it the more I want!

i wanted the graphite originally, but the only one I could find was the white stone. I now like it better than the graphite.

There are other, trustworthy, suppliers available on line apart from the Garmin website. For example -

https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/garmin-instinct-2x-solar-gps-smartwatch-B3BG3A0050.html?colour=3624&utm_source=google&utm_medium=gdn&utm_campaign=CWO-UK-PERF-ONG-PLA-NB-GOOGLE-PMAX2&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0tKiBhC6ARIsAAOXutk1FtcXUBALpuyOaSAAHr0PN7Ov6H9-U6_UNXfxHOXkYDrfGufSpicaAlnwEALw_wcB

In stock and free next day delivery! Got mine from there, no problems!

I understand the aesthetic difference, but FYI an FR255 isn't really small. I cross-shopped the Instinct 2 before deciding on this one a few months ago.

It's just a very different look that is "all screen"... sorry don't have a metric tape handy.