Withings' latest ScanWatch Horizon hybrid smartwatch is the company's first luxury diver offering

(Pocket-lint) - Withings is known for its smartwatches that look thing similar a smartwatch. And the company’s latest ScanWatch Horizon elevates that conception to a full caller level with Withings precise archetypal instrumentality connected a luxury diver model. 

It’s packed with each the aforesaid wellness tracking features arsenic its siblings - the ScanWatch and Steel HR - but the Horizon is an assuredly much premium offering with a high-end terms tag to match.

Retailing contiguous successful the UK, France, and Germany for £499 / €499 and successful Q4 2021 successful the United States, it’s astir treble the terms of the modular ScanWatch. 

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Keep successful mind, however, that the ScanWatch Horizon volition past up to 30 days connected a azygous charge, and for that price, you’re getting some a stainless strap and 1 made from FKM rubber for amended athletics and underwater use. 

Albeit, the regular ScanWatch holds much of an office-modern, sleek look. In contrast, the caller Horizon exemplary launching contiguous looks much akin to a Seamaster oregon OMEGA diver alternatively than an Apple Watch oregon immoderate different smartwatch connected the marketplace for that matter. 

As per the wellness features, they’re thing to beryllium scoffed at. On paper, astatine least, Withings goes head-to-head with Apple successful astir each the large wellness tracking categories, arsenic the Horizon features everything from ECG measurements, blood oxygen readings, slumber and fittingness tracking, and breathing and heartbeat irregularity warnings. 

Besides each the high-tech health-tracking features, the Horizon comes successful either bluish oregon green, and offers a fewer timeless classics immoderate superior diver should have, including a stainless-steel rotating bezel and LumiNova (read: glow successful the dark) indices that should marque underwater oregon low-light speechmaking a breeze. And yes, contempt each the exertion packed inside, it’s rated astatine 10 ATM h2o resistance, suitable for being submerged up to 100 metres deep. 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 29 September 2021.