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Instinct 3 - 45mm AMOLED Smartwatch

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€400⁰⁰ €450⁰⁰

Color: Neo Tropic

Garmin Instinct 3 - 45mm AMOLED Smartwatch Black-Neo Tropic #- 53 Degrees North

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Description

The Instinct 3 45mm Smartwatch combines durability with advanced GPS technology to support your most demanding adventures. Built to military-grade standards for thermal, shock, and water resistance, this rugged timepiece delivers precise navigation, comprehensive fitness metrics, and extended battery life. Its intuitive interface provides essential data at a glance, ensuring you stay on course whether hiking remote trails or navigating urban environments.

Specifications

Features
- AMOLED Display: Make a bold statement with a vibrant 1.2-inch AMOLED display and 45 mm case.
- RUGGED DESIGN: Explore confidently with a rugged design, including a metal-reinforced bezel and scratch-resistant display.
- BUILT-IN FLASHLIGHT: See and be seen with a built-in flashlight, featuring variable intensities and an alternate red light.
- 24/7 health and wellness monitoring: Make bold moves with health monitoring features, including heart rate, advanced sleep monitoring, Pulse Ox2 and more.
- SMART NOTIFICATIONS: Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your compatible Apple® or Android™ smartphone.
- BATTERY LIFE: Leave the charger at home with up to 18 days of battery life in smartwatch mode.
Specs
What You'll Love
- Sleep Score and Insights: Yes ✓
- Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 18 days (7 days always-on)
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes ✓
- LED flashlight: Yes ✓
- Garmin Pay™: Yes ✓
- Multi-band GPS: Yes ✓
- Training Readiness: Yes ✓
- Training Status: Yes ✓
- Watch display type: AMOLED (always-on)
- Water rating: 10 ATM
General
- Strap material: Silicone
- Lens material: Chemically strengthened glass
- Bezel material: Fiber-reinforced polymer/aluminum
- Case material: Fibre-reinforced polymer
- QuickFit™watch band compatible: Yes (22 mm) ✓
- Physical size: 45 x 45 x 14.9 mmFits wrists with a circumference of 137-204 mm
- Weight: 53 g
- Display Size: 30 mm (1.2″) diameter
- Display Resolution: 390 x 390 pixels
- Colour display: Yes ✓
- Large font option: Yes ✓
- Battery type: Lithium ion
- Battery life: Smartwatch: Up to 18 days (7 days always-on)Battery saver watch mode: Up to 24 daysGPS Only: Up to 32 hoursAll Satellite Systems: Up to 25 hoursAll Satellite Systems + Multi-Band: Up to 23 hours*Max Battery GPS: Up to 68 hoursExpedition GPS: Up to 16 days*Assuming typical use with SatIQ technology
- Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Memory/history: 4 GB
Clock features
- Time/date: Yes ✓
- GPS time sync: Yes ✓
- Automatic daylight saving time: Yes ✓
- Alarm clock: Yes ✓
- Timer: Yes ✓
- Stopwatch: Yes ✓
- Sunrise/sunset times: Yes ✓
Health & Wellness Monitoring
- Wrist-based heart rate(constant, every second): Yes ✓
- Resting heart rate: Yes ✓
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low) ✓
- Respiration Rate: Yes ✓
- Fitness Age: Yes ✓
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: Yes ✓
- All-day Stress: Yes ✓
- Relaxation reminders: Yes ✓
- Relaxation Breathing Timer: Yes ✓
- Breathwork: Yes ✓
- Sleep: Yes (Advanced) ✓
- Sleep coach: Yes ✓
- Breathing variations: Yes ✓
- Nap detection: Yes ✓
- Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
- Women's Health: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
- Health Snapshot: Yes ✓
Sensors
- GPS: Yes ✓
- GLONASS: Yes ✓
- Galileo: Yes ✓
- QZSS: Yes ✓
- BeiDou: Yes ✓
- SatIQ™ Technology: Yes ✓
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: Yes ✓
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: Yes ✓
- Barometric altimeter: Yes ✓
- Compass: Yes ✓
- Gyroscope: Yes ✓
- Accelerometer: Yes ✓
- Thermometer: Yes ✓
Daily smart features
- Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps): Yes ✓
- On-device Connect IQ™ Store: Yes ✓
- Smart Notifications: Yes ✓
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): Yes ✓
- View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only): Yes ✓
- Morning report: Yes ✓
- Calendar: Yes ✓
- Weather forecasts: Yes ✓
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: Yes ✓
- Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: Yes ✓
- Controls smartphone music: Yes ✓
- Find my phone: Yes ✓
- Find my watch: Yes ✓
- Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: Yes ✓
- VIRB®camera remote: Yes ✓
- Smart trainer control: Yes ✓
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: Yes ✓
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
- Red shift mode: Yes ✓
- Garmin Share: Yes ✓
- Passcode: Yes ✓
Workout and Training Plans
- Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based): Yes ✓
- Daily Suggested Workout - Cycling (Pace and Heart Rate Based): Yes ✓
- Garmin Running Coach Experts: Yes ✓
- Cardio workouts: Yes ✓
- Strength workouts: Yes ✓
- HIIT workouts: Yes ✓
- Yoga workouts: Yes ✓
- Pilates workouts: Yes ✓
- On-screen workout animations: Yes ✓
- On-Screen Workout Muscle Map: Yes ✓
Activity profiles
- Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping
- Multisport: Triathlon, Swimrunning
- WELLNESS: Walking, Indoor Walking, Pilates, Yoga
- INDOOR RUNNING: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
- Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Obstacle Racing
- Outdoor recreation: Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery
- Cycling: Biking, Road biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel biking, Bike commuting, Bike touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross, BMX
- Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- On the water: Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Fishing, Boating, Water Skiing, Snorkeling, Wakeboarding, Wakesurfing, Tubing, Whitewater
- Motor sports: Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motocrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling
- Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
- Snow & Winter: Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing
- Sport profiles: Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
- In the ring: Boxing, Mixed martial arts
- Other activity profiles: Tactical, Inline Skating
Safety and tracking features
- Incident Detection during select activities: Yes ✓
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: Yes ✓
- Assistance: Yes ✓
- Live Event Sharing: Yes ✓
Tactical features
- Dual grid coordinates: Yes ✓
- XERO™ Locations: Yes ✓
Gaming Features
- Gaming activity: Yes ✓
- GameOn™ app compatible: Yes ✓
Activity tracking features
- Step counter: Yes ✓
- Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes ✓
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes ✓
- Calories Burned: Yes ✓
- Floors climbed: Yes ✓
- Distance travelled: Yes ✓
- Intensity minutes: Yes ✓
- TrueUp™: Yes ✓
- Move IQ™: Yes ✓
- Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
- Automatic rep counting: Yes ✓
Training, planning and analysis features
- Customisable screen(s): Yes ✓
- Downloadable training plans: Yes ✓
- Course guidance: Yes ✓
- HR Zones: Yes ✓
- HR Alerts: Yes ✓
- HR Calories: Yes ✓
- % HR Max: Yes ✓
- % HRR: Yes ✓
- Recovery Time: Yes ✓
- Auto Max HR: Yes ✓
- Race glance/widget: Yes ✓
- HRV Status: Yes ✓
- HR Broadcast(broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices): Yes ✓
- Respiration Rate (During Exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
- GPS speed and distance: Yes ✓
- Customisable activity profiles: Yes ✓
- Auto Pause® automatic timer halt: Yes ✓
- Interval training: Yes ✓
- Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection): Yes ✓
- Advanced workouts: Yes ✓
- Power Modes - customisable in-activity battery settings: Yes ✓
- HRM running pace and distance: Yes ✓
- Auto Lap® interval tracking feature: Yes ✓
- Manual lap: Yes ✓
- Rest timer: Yes ✓
- Configurable lap alerts: Yes ✓
- Heat and Altitude Acclimation: Yes ✓
- VO2 Max (Run): Yes ✓
- VO2 Max (Trail Run): Yes ✓
- Load ratio: Yes ✓
- Training Load: Yes ✓
- Training load focus: Yes ✓
- Training Effect: Yes ✓
- Training Effect (Anaerobic): Yes ✓
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): Yes ✓
- Workout benefit: Yes ✓
- Customisable alerts: Yes ✓
- Voice alerts: Yes ✓
- Multisport auto transition: Yes ✓
- Finish time: Yes ✓
- Virtual partner: Yes ✓
- Race an activity: Yes ✓
- Multi-sport: Yes ✓
- Touch and/or button lock: Yes ✓
- Shortcuts: Yes ✓
- Auto scroll: Yes ✓
- Activity history on watch: Yes ✓
- Physio TrueUp: Yes ✓
- Unified Training Status: Yes ✓
Running features
- GPS-based distance, time and pace: Yes ✓
- Running dynamics: Yes ✓
- Vertical oscillation and ratio: Yes ✓
- Ground contact time and balance: Yes (GCT balance with accessory) ✓
- Stride length (real time): Yes ✓
- Cadence(provides real-time number of steps per minute): Yes ✓
- Running power: Yes ✓
- Grade-adjusted pace: Yes ✓
- Performance condition: Yes ✓
- Lactate threshold: Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
- PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: Yes ✓
- Run workouts: Yes ✓
- Trail run auto climb: Yes ✓
- Race predictor: Yes ✓
- Foot pod capable: Yes ✓
- Run/Walk/Stand detection: Yes ✓
Golfing features
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): Yes ✓
- Yardage to layups/doglegs: Yes ✓
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Manual
- Digital scorecard: Yes ✓
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): Yes ✓
- Garmin AutoShot™: Yes ✓
- Auto CourseView updates: Yes ✓
- Green View with manual pin position: Yes ✓
- Hazards and course targets: Yes ✓
- Round timer/odometer: Yes ✓
- Automatic club tracking compatible(requires accessory): Yes ✓
- Pairs with Garmin Golf app: Yes ✓
- Tournament legal: Yes ✓
Outdoor recreation
- Point-to-point navigation: Yes ✓
- Bread crumbtrail in real time: Yes ✓
- Back to start: Yes ✓
- TracBack®: Yes ✓
- UltraTrac mode: Yes ✓
- REFERENCE POINT: Yes ✓
- Elevation profile: Yes ✓
- Distance to destination: Yes ✓
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: Yes ✓
- Vertical speed: Yes ✓
- Total ascent/descent: Yes ✓
- Future elevation plot: Yes ✓
- GPS coordinates: Yes ✓
- Sight 'N Go: Yes ✓
- Area calculation: Yes ✓
- Projected waypoint: Yes ✓
- Sun and moon information: Yes ✓
- Expedition GPS Activity: Yes ✓
- Tides: Yes ✓
- Tides Glance: Yes ✓
Cycling features
- Courses: Yes ✓
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): Yes ✓
- Race an activity: Yes ✓
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): Yes ✓
- FTP(Functional Threshold Power): Yes ✓
- MTB Grit & Flow: Yes ✓
- Advanced cycling dynamics: Yes ✓
- Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters): Yes ✓
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): Yes ✓
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): Yes ✓
- Compatible with Varia™ lights: Yes ✓
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): Yes ✓
- Power meter compatible: Yes ✓
Swimming features
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes ✓
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes ✓
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): Yes ✓
- Drill logging (pool swim only): Yes ✓
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): Yes ✓
- "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): Yes ✓
- Auto rest (pool swim only): Yes ✓
- Time and distance alerts: Yes ✓
- Countdown start: Yes ✓
- Pool swim workouts: Yes ✓
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate: Yes ✓
- Heart rate from external HRM(real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes ✓
Kid activity tracking features
- Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) ✓
Security and Legal Information
- Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD): 2027-01-06
- EU Data Act Information - Wearable, Fitness Measuring and Heart Rate (HRM) Devices: Yes ✓
What's included
- Instinct 3 – 45 mm, AMOLED smartwatch with silicone band
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation
Ideal for

Running