Garmin India Unveils Its Luxury MARQ (Gen2) Collection, Brings in Five Beautifully Crafted Watches Designed For Aspirations on Land, Sea and Air

Press Release

• 24-02-2023

Key Features- MARQ Collection:

• AMOLED Display: MARQ (Gen2) Offers sharp and vibrant viewing angles with AMOLED and touch screen display

• Jet Lag Adviser1: Advice about light exposure, a sleep schedule and exercise to minimize the effects of jet lag

• Build Quality: Built with Grade-5 titanium which is five-time stronger and harder than most steels, it increases heat and corrosion resistance, making it more scratch-resistant and lightweight

• Battery Life: Offers an incredible battery that lasts up to 16 days in smartwatch mode and up to 42 hours in GPS mode

• Full suite of Health & Wellness features: Wrist-based heart rate, respiration and stress tracking, advanced sleep insights, Body-Battery™ energy monitoring

New Delhi, 23rd February 2023 —Garmin India, a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), today announced the launch of MARQ® – the second generation, a collection of five luxury modern tool watches, MARQ Athlete, MARQ Adventurer, MARQ Golfer, MARQ Captain, and MARQ Aviator. The watches are uniquely crafted to be a trusted companion for pursuits in athletic performance, outdoor adventure, flight and more. The MARQ (Gen 2) series is built with Grade-5 titanium and has a vibrant AMOLED touchscreen display with domed sapphire lens. With dedicated features and carefully curated materials, each MARQ timepiece is purposefully engineered for any of life’s adventures. It provides an incredible battery performance with a rechargeable lithium battery that lasts up to 16 days in smartwatch mode and up to 42 hours in GPS mode.

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Yeshudas Pillai, Country Head, Garmin India said, “The MARQ collection is a true testament to Garmin’s commitment to providing a luxury experience with super premium quality, innovation and reliability. Each watch from the MARQ collection is crafted in a beautiful design with gorgeous luxury materials and equipped with smartwatch capabilities which makes it a new standard in the watch industry. The second-generation MARQ collection- is specifically designed for athletes, adventure & aviation enthusiasts. With this launch, we believe to cater to the luxury smartwatch market more abundantly, we have served for many years.” 

Key Features

The perfect blend of sophisticated design and everyday convenience

MARQ collection is designed with superior craftsmanship and attention to detail. Built with materials like sapphire crystal, ceramic and jacquard-weave nylon. It features unique design elements including titanium, leather, nylon and silicone bracelets. Moreover, straps are carefully chosen with the user in mind and used across the entire collection.

The new collection is built with high performance Grade-5 titanium which is five-time stronger and harder than most steels, making it more scratch-resistant and lightweight on the wrist compared to stainless steel. The 46mm watch case houses a domed sapphire lens and a vibrant AMOLED display with a highly responsive touchscreen to enrich the regular smartwatch experience.

The Marq provides up to 16 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, which means you don’t have to worry about charging while travelling or even overnight. MARQ collects vital biometric data while sleeping to give individualized information on sleep quality, stress, and recovery. The watch comes with a magnetic charger that aligns easily with each MARQ watch, with a charge time of one hour—twice as fast as the previous design.

Premium Features for the Modern Explorer 

The MARQ collection includes Garmin’s suite of 24/7 health and wellness features like wrist-based heart rate, respiration and stress tracking, advanced sleep insights, Body-Battery™ energy monitoring and a new Jet Lag Adviser1. Whether a global traveller or an athlete participating in events across the country or overseas, the Jet Lag Adviser helps users feel their best mentally and physically.

The adviser uses sleep history and other metrics to recommend users about light exposure, sleep schedule and exercise to minimize the effects of jet lag for their next long-distance.The feature will also suggest what to do and at what time to quickly adjust to the new time zone (while travelling) to provide reminders like nutrition and caffeine intake. Garmin connect app™  will enable users to enter their travel details in the app for it to track how their body’s internal clock is adjusting to the new destination.

New to all MARQ watches, the collection includes support for multi-band GNSS, multi-frequency GPS (L1 + L5) and Garmin SatIQ™ technology, which secures superior positioning accuracy in any environment while optimizing battery life. No matter where the adventure may lead, this technology automatically selects the right satellite mode for the environment in real time.

Meet the MARQ Collection

MARQ Athlete           

Suited for any competition, MARQ Athlete is built with a titanium case, brushed DLC-coated bezel and fashioned with a lightweight vented silicone rubber strap selected for secure fit and accurate sensor readings. With MARQ athelete, users will be able to track all aspects of their performance, training and recovery with advanced metrics like training readiness, which gives a score based on sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so they can determine whether it’s a good day to push the limits or take it easy. For runners, MARQ Athlete includes a wide range of advanced training features like PacePro™, which keeps a runner’s pacing strategy on track with grade-adjusted guidance as they run a course, and real-time stamina to track and manage exertion through activity to avoid burnout. In addition to daily activity tracking, the MARQ Athlete comes preloaded with sports apps for all athletic pursuits like running, cycling, swimming, skiing, golf, pickleball & tennis, gym workouts, and surfing, just to name a few, along with easy-to-follow animated cardio, strength, yoga and Pilates workouts.

MARQ Adventurer

MARQ Adventurer features an innovative edge to edge leather design and durable FKM rubber hybrid strap to work in a casual setting as well as during activity. It combines the elegance of a leather strap with increased sweat and stain resistance. The compass bezel uses cardinal directions and 360-degree markings to help keep users on track as they use the Orienteering feature to navigate to their destination.

MARQ Golfer

With a golf course-inspired color scheme, green ceramic inlay, custom etched bezel, and tritone green jacquard-weave nylon strap, the love for the game won’t go unnoticed. Preloaded with over 42,000 worldwide golf courses, MARQ Golfer will autodetect which course is being played to give precise distances to the front, middle and back of the green, plus slope direction with Green Contours (Active Garmin Golf™ app membership required). MARQ Golfer includes Garmin’s most advanced set of golf features, including Virtual Caddie, Hazard View, Wind Data, PinPointer and includes three Approach CT10 golf club sensors for automatic club tracking.

MARQ Captain 

Crafted with nautical details like a navy ceramic bezel with regatta timer and race-inspired striped jacquard weave nylon strap, MARQ Captain makes the perfect first mate. The built-in Regatta Timer helps racers cross the starting point at precisely the right time, utilizing the GPS time to burn to calculate the ideal position and a countdown timer that shows time to the gun. For better situational awareness on the water, Alerts and Alarms will signal to imminent tide changes and anchor drag. Access the autopilot right from the wrist with MARQ Captain to change heading, engage pattern steering and follow a route. MARQ Captain also includes profiles for other on-the-water activities like kayaking, standup paddleboarding, windsurfing, kitesurfing and kiteboarding.

MARQ Aviator

Whether a pilot or an aviation enthusiast, MARQ Aviator builds on a passion for all things flight. It is designed with a brushed titanium bracelet, swept-wing links and locking clasp, plus ceramic 24-hour GMT bezel. MARQ Aviator can be used to navigate to a location or waypoint in the worldwide aeronautical database or to choose the nearest function to activate a path to a nearby airport. With aviation alerts, pilots can set a minimum crosswind and flight condition they’re comfortable with and be notified when it's a good time to go flying. For world travelers, MARQ Aviator’s Jet Lag Adviser watch face displays the aviator’s home time zone, a “feels like” time and, once fully acclimated, will automatically update to show 24/7 guidance on light, sleep and exercise.

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