@Ecki-D. said:
Suunto should build the Leica of endurance watches
I really like the Leica analogy. The 9 Peak design looks and feels very purpose-built and understated, much like the cameras. And the original retail price for the 9 Peak set it apart from the competition despite its lack of certain state-of-the-art technology, much like Leica. (Okay, maybe not quite as bad as a Leica.)
I was going to say that I thought the ship had sailed on Suunto producing the type of watch you described above. After all, it seems that since the new ownership, there has been a significant push to introduce more and more features. Some of these are playing catch-up to the competition, and others are things that users have been asking for. And, at this point, it feels like Suunto watches are becoming more complicated to use. Certainly not as bad as Garmin, but they are on the path towards “feature overload” that simply didn’t exist in the 9 series days.
But, then I remembered the impending release of the Core 2. So it appears that Suunto is developing two distinct watch branches: the do-it-all, not-quite-a-smartwatch, adventure watches (Vertical and Race); and the bare-bones, hardcore, basics watch (Core).
Maybe there’s hope that a new branch will emerge that bridges the gap between these two? A watch that does a little more than the Core, but not quite everything that the Vertical does? And if it looks anything like the 9 Peak, I’d imagine it’d be pretty close to the “Leica of endurance watches ”.
