Best rugged smartwatches in 2024: Tough techie timekeepers for testing times
Rugged as a mountain range, tougher than a roughing-it Ray Mears, and smarter than an AI Albert Einstein, but that’s enough about me!
No, now the laughter has died down to a slow, sympathetic shake of the head, we’re gathered here together in today’s digital edition of ES Best to turn our attention instead to a special breed of smartwatches.
We’re talking smartwatches unrelentingly indestructible in their resilience against both the extremes of nature and the follies of man, utterly unwavering in their desire to measure your body metrics, and so unflinchingly driven in their determination to push you to the peak of physical fitness that they’ll stop at nothing, literally nothing, even when you push things too far - they will simply encourage you to get up and run it off.
Crafted from a variety of materials, they are steeled against the likes of water, shock, dirt, dust and extremes of absolute baking and/or freezing. So, if your lifestyle involves indulging/enduring in more physically testing times than most mortals, these are the smartwatches you need wrapped around your wrist to measure your progress, keep you on track, keep you in contact with civilisation and, in the case of some options, keep you safe by allowing select people to monitor your movements and send notifications in case of Incident Detection.
Picking through the myriad models available for those who view the average Iron Man event as little more strenuous than a literal walk in the park, I’ve narrowed the field down
