10 Best Sport Watches for Men in 2019 to Track Activity – Esquire

The is the most basic sport watch you could ever buy. It tells the time. It has an alarm and a stopwatch. And that’s about it. But if your workouts don’t require any high-tech accessorizing, a retro-style Casio can’t be beat.

Battery life: solar powered 

Timex’s Ironman GPS sport watch covers all the basics at a sub-$100 price tag. It’s best for runners, with metrics on distance covered, pacing alerts, and lap time. It’ll even tell you when to hydrate. It’s also water resistant up to 50 meters, in case you have a real Ironman Triathlon in mind.

Battery life: 12 hours

This is an excellent, budget-conscious sport watch. Polar lets you choose target distances for running, and gives you GPS tracking to log your miles. Plus, its included heart rate training will get you to your desired activity level. Plenty of other features make it a smart buy.

Battery life: 6 days

Fitbit makes a few very good Versa smartwatches geared toward fitness, but the Lite is the least expensive of the lot. But that doesn’t mean it skimps on features. Use it for tracking heart rate, sleep, distance, and steps—i.e. all the basics. 

Battery life: 4 days

Withings has a range of sport watches that hardly look like sport watches, the Steel HR included. Alongside the traditional watch face, it’ll track your activity with multiple metrics and make sure you’re performing at your peak level by estimating your VO2 Max. And the battery life is killer.

Battery life: 25 days

Skagen channels Scandinavian design with a sport watch that is both minimalist and stylish, as well as super smart. That clean watch face will give you stats powered by Google, GPS, and internal trackers. For a sport watch that transitions seamlessly to an office watch, this is a great option.

Battery life: 24 hours

This watch is brazenly sporty, from its brightly colored silicone band to the sturdy stainless steel face. It tracks everything, in addition to coming pre-loaded with 80 different modes to match the activity you’re doing, whether it be swimming or skiing. 

Battery life: 8 hours

The Movado Connect is highly customizable, with more than 100 different dial settings. It’s also nearly as good as having a smartphone strapped to your wrist, with fitness tracking, push alerts for messages, music, and more, and Google Assistant. The screen quality is remarkable, too.

Battery life: 24 hours

The Forerunner 645 isn’t messing around. It delivers the kinds of stats only serious runners could understand and monitors heart rate from your wrist. You can download music onto it and activate Garmin Pay so that you don’t need to bring your phone or your wallet during a run. And it’s absolutely packed with other features.

Battery life: 7 days

Apple brings cellular connectivity to the sport watch arena. If it’s worth it to you to pay for phone functionality, you’ll also get all of those nice Apple fitness specs: an ECG monitor, workout trackers, personalized coaching, and Apple Music streaming, to name a few. 

Battery life: 18 hours