Watch Series 1

I work at home and am not exactly an outdoorsman but I got the UW2 for the large screen and battery life and I love it. I had the Series 1 AW and have used most of them along the way. The Ultra has been my hands down favorite one.

Running. Exercise tracking in general. Quick text replies. Checking the weather. Setting reminders. Music. AirPods are a great addition. Checking calendar. Health tracking. I def use my iPhone a ton. Have had a watch since the series 1. I love tech of all sorts so I just find it nice to wear and have. I def miss the Watch when I wear regular watches. I run without my phone but I almost NEVER don’t have my iphone on me, except for the short time that I run haha

I have iPhone and had Apple Watches from the beginning. Apple Watch 1, Apple Watch 6 and just got Apple 11 for Christmas. I have ran 4 marathons with them no problems and training with the free Nike Run Club app on my iPhone. Has real Olympic coaches for the training programs.

Went from Apple watch 1 then 3 then SE 2nd gen to Garmin to Balance 2 XT. The XT is the best watch for me. I'm not an exercise nut, but I walk, cycle some and and indoor row. I'm more interested in health metrics. The Balance 2 XT gives me real time HR, SPO2, steps all in real time on the watch face. Apple cannot do that. And then there's the excellent battery life, 8-10 days with everything on (no AOD) 24/7.

Well, it’s two really good watches. For me Garmin wins because - Battery life - Round watch - Flashlight - Better variation of watchfaces - Looks (in my eyes) Apple Watch wins in terms of smart watch and integrations with iPhone but for me Garmin is good enough.

Maybe for some but for me it was more or less the same. Been using AW1 and AW 2 beside my Fenix when I was trying to move over to AW but I didn’t see any big difference between them. I kept my Garmin anyway