Garmin Instinct Crossover Solar – Tactical Edition, Rugged Hybrid Smartwatch with Solar Charging Capabilities, Tactical-Specific Features, Analog Hands and Digital Display, Black
Price: $499.90 - $380.59
(as of Mar 21, 2025 09:21:07 UTC – Details)
Contradict the common with Instinct® Crossover Solar – Tactical Edition. This rugged hybrid GPS smartwatch provides a classic analog experience with advanced smart functionality and high-resolution digital screen. Built-in RevoDrive™ technology delivers accurate analog timekeeping in even the most demanding environments. With the Instinct Crossover Solar – Tactical Edition smartwatch, you’ll be ready for anything with stealth mode, night vision and more. Train your way — indoors or out — with built-in sports apps, including everything from strength training to running to mountain biking. With 24/7 health monitoring, you can keep up with energy levels, stress, sleep and more (data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked). Never miss a text — or anything else — with notifications right on your wrist from your compatible Android™ or Apple® smartphone. With a supported country and payment network, forget your cash and cards and pay from the Instinct Crossover – Tactical Edition smartwatch with Garmin Pay™ contactless payments. Get infinite battery life in battery saver mode with solar charging (Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions).
Luminescent analog watch hands in a bold, rugged watch body in tactical-specific colors with dual-layered bezel
Combines a classic analog experience with smart functionality on an easy-to-read high-resolution digital display with solar charging
RevoDrive technology delivers accurate analog timekeeping in even the most demanding environments
Ruggedly built to MIL-STD-810 for thermal and shock resistance and with a water rating of 10 ATM (Withstands pressures equivalent to a depth of 100 meters)
Tactical-specific features include stealth mode, night vision goggle compatibility, Jumpmaster activity, kill switch and dual-format GPS
Pair to your compatible Apple or Android smartphone to get smart notifications; pay from your wrist with Garmin Pay contactless payment solutions with a supported country and payment network
Understand your body better with all-day health monitoring features that track your heart rate, sleep score, Pulse Ox, respiration and more (This is not a medical device, and data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked. Pulse Ox not available in all countries)
With built-in sports apps for everything from strength training to running to mountain biking, you can train your way indoors or out
Explore the outdoors with GPS, GLONASS and Galileo navigation support and built-in ABC sensors
Battery life with solar charging: infinite battery life in battery saver (Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions); up to 70 days of battery life in smartwatch mode (Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions); up to 31 hours in GPS mode (Assumes continuous use for entire period in 50,000 lux conditions)
Customers say
Customers appreciate the watch’s durability, activity tracking, and battery life. They find it shockproof, with good quality and functionality that combines a smartwatch and outdoor activity tracker well. However, some have issues with the screen size and brightness, while others disagree on the design and functionality.
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13 reviews for Garmin Instinct Crossover Solar – Tactical Edition, Rugged Hybrid Smartwatch with Solar Charging Capabilities, Tactical-Specific Features, Analog Hands and Digital Display, Black
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FraggleRock –
Another excellent Garmin product. Love it!
There’s something about having the analogue hands that make time tracking so useful, as in watching a dial vs a digital readout. Okay so, battery life is pretty darn good so far. The hand movements are perfect and even move out of the way if you need them to by pressing the bottom right button. They shift just enough to see what they might be covering on the main screen. For other screens they move out of the way completely and it looks really cool. If this is your first time on Garmin. The instincts are where it is at. Charge it when you feel like it, not every night! Anyway, the things I would say I don’t like are: So far no white background black text setting. Kind of annoying, but hopefully we get an update that’ll allow it? Also the night mode. At night the screen switches to a non-notification style screen that’s simpler. Which I love on my Instinct 2. However on this one, the time is at the top and the hands cover it right? Think about it, 11:10, glancing at it. The hands cover it, and it’s too dark to read the hands. I don’t know if that makes since, but like if I had to pick on ONE thing, it would be this. Overall, exceptional watch. The readings are decent, especially the heart rate monitor apps and GPS tracking. Also the compass I use a lot in my job, and that’s the main reason I got these. Works awesome and shows azimuth.
Robert –
Common Garmin W
Love this watch. It has all the smart watch features I wanted, but without all the flashy colors and distractions that’ll keep me out of the moment. The location and steps are far more accurate than any previous smartwatch I’ve used (They were all sub $500). I work in an industrial environment and ALL my watches get very banged up. I’ve had some hard collisions on things over the past 2 months of wearing this watch, and it’s not cut or scratched yet, I’ve just got paint transfer that wipes off. The battery also lasts absurdly long. I’ve charged it twice since owning (2 months) and that’s including GPS time trickling the battery down for at least a weekly run, and hitting the gym often. Would definitely recommend.
Daniel Mason –
Great Watch
I have been considering buying this for a while. I love it. I love how long the battery lasts. It’s so nice to be able to glance quickly at an analog watch then go to the digital if I want more info.
M. Mora –
Great watch but not good for old eyes.
I really wished I could have kept this watch because I liked the features and ruggedness of its construction. It was vary comfortable to wear, surprisingly light weight. I almost forgot I was wearing it after a while.But, I have astigmatism in both eyes and my low light vision is poor at my current age of 55. When trying to read the monochrome display without glasses (sometimes even with glasses) it becomes difficult to make anything out. Iâve set the backlight at 100% but everything remains unreadable. I had no problem reading the display in day light. Reading the time with analog hands helped in low light while they glowed but once they dim out, itâs almost impossible to see the time. This will be a great watch for someone without the issues I have with my vision but for myself, Iâm going to stick with Garmin and the next watch I get will either be a Fenix 7X or an Epix with amoled display depending on how well I can read the display at night.
Rambler –
This watch is great, but my old eyes can’t read the text.
Don’t get me wrong, this watch is awesome, has a morning report that lets you know statuses, buzzes and lets you see emails/texts, I like the analog hands, but the writing is just too small for me old eyes to read and I’m not putting on my reading glasses every time my watch buzzes. Otherwise a good watch.
Amazon Customer –
Best Outdoor Analong+ Digital Smartwatch you could ask for
Best watch I use everyday. I loved it for it’s analog aspect and combines the smartwatch and outdoor activity tracker very well. I utilize the sleep tracking alot along with the workouts and couldn’t reccoment this watch enough. I hope a newer version comes out because I feel there are no downsides to this watch. Battery life is exceptional and I don’t care for the touchscreen aspect I might be missing out on from the Fenix line. Been using it for a little over a year and haven’t had any problems with durability as well.
Jay Shriver –
Great watch, except for the condensation issues
I was excited initially by this watch, essentially an instinct 2 with hands. It’s been enjoyable to use until the cool weather hit. This watch has a condensation problem. Cool air hits the crystal and boom … condensation. This is the only watch I’ve ever had with this problem. Not good garmin. Support exchanged the watch … Same problem. An obvious design flaw for an outdoors watch. I now wish I bought a Fenix.
B –
Great watch and love the analog dial!
Always had a Garmin smart watch. Didn’t need all the fancy features my Fenix Pro Sapphire had (which stopped working after about 8 years). Highly recommend if you don’t need fancy features that you never use.
Lourenço Montibello –
I am a watch person, I own a 12 watch collection and am leaving them in the box until smart rings are a solid technologyI tried an Apple watch and hated it, it’s a little anxiety machine and you have to charge it once a day.I disliked the look and especially the feel of the fitbit.The other watch guy from the office showed me this watch and I thought it wears great, similar to what a 40mm automatic watch wears, it was an instant buy!Also, as a very outdoorsy person, I love having the GPS features!No complaints from this 10/10
Edgar Paulin Rojas –
Muy completo , muchas funciones hay que descargar el manual completo para agarrarle bien su funcionamiento
Zubz –
After all the research for 2 weeks, ended up with the crossover and it was worth the investment/wait! Amazing watch. Not going back to Apple.
Shannon Vincent –
There is nothing wrong with this product, but if I could do it again, I would order up the range a bit. The text is small so I need to use my glasses every time to read notifications. Also, the monochrome interference doesn’t help with clarity.If I had a time machine, I would order the model with a larger colour face and skip the solar function (which sounded good, but I never use).Ps, I changed the band to a Hemsut rugged Velcro strap. Easy installation and great quality.
Luis –
El reloj en general es muy bueno la marca lo dice pero para el dÃa a dÃa es muy funcional en lo particular a mi me gusta mucho la mezcla de tener un reloj inteligente con manecillas tiene buen rango de conexión con tu celular y los sensores son excepcioanles