@Ecki-D. said:
In practical terms, that could mean:
You almost describe the forerunner 935 I once owned.
excellent battery life
Had to charge it only once every 2 weeks with about 7 hours gps activity per week. (Well, that was until garmin introduced a nasty bug)
strong GPS and navigation
It had a quick fix and I never got lost following a route.
clean route handling
It had only breadcrumb navigation, but like I said, I never got lost following a route.
great readability in real outdoor conditions
The mip screen was perfectly visible in direct sunlight with sunglasses on and sweat in your eyes and had no problem when I ran from shade under trees to open terrain. Something my newer oled watches all struggle with.
low-friction everyday usability
Had no problem with in om everyday use. Showed the time/date, did alarms the way I wanted it and showed notifications. Could set it to buzz only and my phone on silent. Perfect for me.
long-term software support
Since you don’t want bloated watches we’re not talking feature updates but bugfixes. Garmin provides limited feature updates but long time bugfixing updates (unfortunate they always add new bugs to updates)
a more quiet, professional, tool-like product philosophy
The forerunner 935 did have a quiet, professional tool like product philosophy. In my eyes.
I’m not saying suunto sucks and garmin is great (I sold my expense forerunner 965 other 1 year use and bought a suunto for a reason) but I think you description is quite generic that it could apply to almost any watch, if you want to.