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Meet the Garmin Instinct 3 Smartwatch, your ultimate fitness companion. Packed with advanced features like wrist-based heart rate, Pulse Ox, built-in sports apps, and VO2 MAX, it offers precise monitoring of your wellness and activity performance. The rugged design features a metal-reinforced bezel and a 10 ATM water rating, making it ready for any challenge. Plus, with up to 18 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and accurate multi-band GPS, it keeps you on track and helps you navigate your day effortlessly.
Key Features
- Savvy Wrist Companion: Keep tabs on your wellness with the Garmin Instinct 3 Smartwatch! This innovative device helps you monitor your heart rate, stress levels, and sleep patterns for a comprehensive health overview. You can also track your fitness goals with built-in activity modes while staying connected through smart notifications, ensuring you never miss a beat.
- A Healthier You: Stay on top of your well-being with Instinct 3’s advanced features, including wrist-based heart rate, HRV status, and Pulse Ox. It also tracks hydration, fitness age, stress, and daily movements. Additionally, it offers morning reports, nap detection, and women’s health tracking for added convenience.
- Get Fit: Shape your fitness journey into a more intuitive process, thanks to its built-in sports apps, Garmin Coach, HIIT workout tracker, and VO2 MAX. Plus, it provides daily workout suggestions and recovery time for added convenience.
- Power that Lasts: The Instinct 3 offers up to 18 days of usage in smartwatch mode, up to 24 days in battery-saver mode, and up to 32 hours of GPS tracking. Max Battery GPS extends usage up to 68 hours, while Expedition GPS lasts up to 16 days for longer trips*.
- Advanced Navigation System: Enjoy precise navigation with SATIQ™ technology, offering multi-band GPS for accurate positioning and longer battery life. The ABC Sensors help guide you on your adventures, while the Livetrack feature lets friends and family know your location and planned routes.
- Durable Construction: Built for adventure, it sports a scratch-resistant 45mm fibre-reinforced polymer case and a metal-reinforced bezel for superior durability. It also boasts a 10 ATM water rating, making it perfect for all environments, including water activities.
- Contactless Payments: Make quick and easy payments using Garmin Pay, so you can breeze through checkout lines or transit systems effortlessly**.
- Nifty Design: Stay visible in low light conditions. The built-in flashlight offers variable intensities and an alternate red light for added safety and convenience.
- Bright, Clear Display: The Instinct 3 Smartwatch features a 1.2” AMOLED screen, which delivers bright and vibrant visuals for easy readability in any lighting.
- Compatible Apps: This smartwatch works with the Garmin Connect app to monitor your health and fitness, while keeping you connected with friends. With the Garmin Messenger™ App, you can send and receive text messages right from your wrist***. It also works with the Connect IQ Store, so you can customise your watch’s face, add apps, and more.
- Fashion Meets Function: This smartwatch features a bold black bezel and a black silicone band, offering a modern yet rugged look. It's the perfect blend of style and durability, built to keep up with your active lifestyle.
*Battery life may vary per usage.
**To check for participating banks that support Garmin Pay you can check it at garmin.com/en-NZ/garminpay/banks/.
***Requires both the sender and receiver of messages to have the Garmin Messenger app installed on their paired smartphones.
Garmin Instinct 3 Smartwatch - Black Bezel with Black Band (45mm Case, GPS, Bluetooth, Amoled Edition) is rated
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Rated 5 out of
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tom10i from
Best watch for mountain biking
This watch is better in every way than the Instinct or Instinct 2.
Once it's set up, which does take some effort, with one press on the controls, I can easily connect it to feed my pulse to my Edge 830 for biking, track my indoor biking when the weather is inclement and monitor my weight work. I was confused a bit about the weight settings as I use a rapid sequence on various machines and weights; when I contacted Garmin, a rep responded with a workable solution in a day or two. Good support. What I most like is how readable the watch is in full sun or under a dark canapy; it is always easy to see.
Date published: 2025-12-18
Rated 5 out of
5
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st.maris from
Cool watch!
I got tired of having to charge my apple watch every day so I saw a Garmin watch and saw some pretty good reviews, a
bit spendy but you get what you pay for so chose the Instinct 3 Amoled, I liked the smaller sized one, oh my gosh what a sweet watch! I charge it every 16 days or so, it can do more than I need but that's ok. Takes a little to figure it all out but it is getting easier. Watch face is so clear and easy to read even in direct sunlight and very customizable. It even has a flashlight which I thought I would never use but seriously use it daily, super handy. I do recommend this watch
Date published: 2025-08-04
Rated 3 out of
5
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XYZ64 from
Not for me
I have been using fitbits for the past ten years but needed a new smartwatch and Google has stopped making new fitbits for iphones. I don't want an apple watch due to low battery life. I really mainly used the fitbit for steps, calories, heartrate and a sleep score. I bought the Garmin recognizing that it was overkill for this use but was disappointed to learn that the app is much more geared to hardcore adventuring and doesn't handle the basics as well as a fitbit. Currently it is sitting in the drawer. Any chance I could get a refund (even partial)? I threw away the box
Date published: 2025-07-31
Rated 5 out of
5
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MarcusH from
So many features and stats!
I have had this watch for about 3 weeks now and can't stop checking my stats! It tracks so many stats for you to check out. Steps, heart rate, body battery, sleep, calories, stress, weather, HRV status, brpm, and many more! This is exactly the kind of watch I wanted. I purchased it right before a trip to the Rocky Mountain National Park and wanted it to track my hikes and a couple of other stats and it has blown me away with all the features. I used to have an apple watch and this Garmin watch does all the apple watch does and so much more! Never going back to apple!
Date published: 2025-10-09
Rated 5 out of
5
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ZGill from
Best watch I've owned
I've had this watch for approximately 4 weeks. I replaced an Apple Watch gen 3, and man what an upgrade. After first charging I had 18 days of battery, that will be very helpful in the mountains come September. This watch is extremely customizable. I guarantee there's functions hidden on here I still don't know about. After serving charging it showed only 16 days battery, so I will be keeping track of that, but even at 16 days, I can't complain. I was charging my Apple Watch every night, and paying it made it through my shift every night (some nights it didn't).
Date published: 2025-07-31
Rated 5 out of
5
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Tyler D S from
Exceeded Expectations
Was sick of having to charge other smartwatches on a daily basis. This watch kept me connected with call, message, and notification alerts while maintaining extended extended battery life, sometimes going over 40 days on battery saver mode! Also paired with my employers wellbeing app so I could track steps, workouts, strenuous activity, sleep, and other activities to earn credits towards insurance premium discounts. As an avid outdoorsman, this watch has all the functionality I could ever need. I regret not getting this sooner.
Date published: 2025-08-02
Rated 5 out of
5
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Rkeith20522 from
Love how durable it is.
I love the durability of it, my Apple Watch lasted maybe a week before I shattered it. All of the controls are buttons but once you get used to it it’s great! It’s crazy light weight (reminds me of a Casio in weight terms). It takes a while to learn it but it’s very user friendly afterwards. The Garmin map is great for mapping runs, the health tracking is insane and has helped me a lot with my fitness goals. 15 day battery life and I have all of the trackers on 24/7
Date published: 2025-09-27
Rated 1 out of
5
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Illia from
Expected more, disappointed
Bought Garmin coming from Apple Watch, too complicated. Comes with a tiny thick instruction manual that you can’t read even if you wanted to, didn’t really think I would need to actually read it!!! Way too many steps just to do a simple workout, turn on lamp, check a message. Only positive is the battery but I don’t wear my watch to sleep in so what does it matter. Too many buttons on the sides that do to much! I should’ve just purchased another Apple.
Date published: 2025-09-22
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