Manufacturer Description

tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition

READY TO CARRY OUT THE MISSION

Ruggedly designed to meet military standards, this premium GPS smartwatch offers specialized tactical features as well as mapping, music, advanced training features and more.

  • A premium design built to military standards (MIL-STD-810).
  • Tactical-specific features such as night vision compatibility and more for field ops.
  • Navigate your world with multi-GNSS support and outdoor sensors.
  • Measure running and cycling performance in ways you didn’t know were possible.
  • Smart features, such as payment, music and notifications when you pair to your smartphone.
  • Don't be limited by battery life. Get up to 21 days in smartwatch mode.
QUALITY BY DESIGN

Tested to U.S. military standards (MIL-STD-810), the rugged yet sophisticated design features a large 1.4” display that’s 36% larger than previous Tactix models.

PREMIUM MATERIALS

This smartwatch features a look to fit your lifestyle with a scratch-resistant domed sapphire lens, black DLC-coated steel bezel and black PVD-coated steel rear cover.

NIGHT VISION CAPABILITY

Easily switch between daytime view and nighttime view with a screen that can be read by night vision goggles.

JUMPMASTER MODE

This feature works to calculate high-altitude release points according to military guidelines and helps to navigate you to your objective once you’ve jumped.

DUAL-POSITION FORMAT

Easily sync your location with others by seeing both the universal transverse mercator (UTM) and military grid reference system (MGRS) on the same screen.

STEALTH MODE

Enable stealth mode to stop storing and sharing your GPS position and disable wireless connectivity and communication.

KILL SWITCH

If security becomes an issue, the kill switch wipes the device of all user memory.

PROJECTED WAYPOINTS

Set and save remote geo positions to be used later for navigation.

MULTI-GNSS

Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.

ABC SENSORS

Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass.

EXPEDITION MODE

Trek far and wide between recharges. Expedition mode, an ultralow-powered GPS reference, lasts for weeks.

TOPO AND SKI MAPS

Use topographical maps to navigate your adventures. View run names and difficulty ratings for 2,000 worldwide ski resorts.

CLIMBPRO FEATURE

Use ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.

GOLF COURSES

Access full-color CourseView maps for more than 41,000 golf courses around the world, and get button targeting and the PlaysLike Distance feature.

TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION

Follow a route or course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.

ROUND TRIP ROUTING

Enter a distance you want to travel, and get suggested routes that will bring you back to your starting point. Trendline™ popularity routing helps you find the best local paths.

SPORTS APPS

Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing and more.

ANIMATED WORKOUTS

This watch features easy-to-follow, animated cardio, strength, yoga and Pilates workouts you can view on the watch screen

PERFORMANCE METRICS

View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, recovery advisor and more1.

PACEPRO™ TECHNOLOGY

A first-of-its-kind PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

Enhanced optical heart rate1 technology gauges the intensity of your fitness activities as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level score. It also tracks underwater without a heart rate strap.

PULSE OX SENSOR

For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox2 sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen.

RESPIRATION TRACKING

See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and yoga activities.

BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITOR

Optimize your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest.

POWER MANAGER

View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.

BATTERY

Internal, rechargeable lithium battery provides up to 21 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, 15 hours in GPS mode with music and up to 80 days in battery saver mode.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.

MUSIC APPS

Store up to 2,000 songs, or access streaming apps from your compatible services, including Spotify®, Deezer and Amazon Music, and listen through headphones with BLUETOOTH® technology.

GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.

SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features3 send your location to emergency contacts.

What's Included In The Box?

The Garmin tactix Delta Sapphire Edition GPS Watch ships with the following items included:
  • tactix Delta - Sapphire edition
  • charging/data cable
  • documentation

Features

General
  • Lens Material: domed sapphire crystal
  • Bezel Material: Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) coated titanium
  • Case material: fiber-reinforced polymer with titanium rear cover
  • QuickFit™ watch band compatible: included (26 mm)
  • Strap material: silicone
  • Physical size: 51 x 51 x 17.5 mm
  • Weight: 90 g
  • Water rating: 10 ATM
  • Display type: sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
  • Display size: 1.2” (30.4 mm) diameter
  • Display resolution: 240 x 240 pixels
  • Color display: Yes
  • Night vision mode: Yes
  • Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 12 days, GPS/HR mode: Up to 20 hours, UltraTrac™ mode: Up to 35 hours
  • Memory/History: 16 GB
Clock Features
  • Time/date: Yes
  • GPS Time Sync: Yes
  • Automatic daylight saving time: Yes
  • Alarm clock: Yes
  • Timer: Yes
  • Stopwatch: Yes
  • Sunrise/sunset times: Yes
Sensors
  • GPS: Yes
  • GLONASS: Yes
  • Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: Yes
  • Barometric altimeter: Yes
  • Compass: Yes
  • Gyroscope: Yes
  • Accelerometer: Yes
  • Thermometer: Yes
Daily Smart Features
  • Connectivity: Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
  • Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): Yes
  • Smart notifications: Yes
  • Calendar: Yes
  • Weather: Yes
  • Controls smartphone music: Yes
  • Find My Phone: Yes
  • Find My Watch: Yes
  • VIRB® Camera Remote: Yes
  • Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
  • Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: Yes
Activity Tracking Features
  • Step counter: Yes
  • Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes
  • Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes
  • Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep): Yes
  • Calories burned: Yes
  • Floors climbed: Yes
  • Distance traveled: Yes
  • Intensity minutes: Yes
  • TrueUp™: Yes
  • Move IQ™: Yes
  • Fitness Age: Yes (in app)
Fitness Equipment/Gym
  • Preloaded gym activity profiles: Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing and Yoga
  • Cardio workouts: Yes
  • Strength workouts: Yes
  • Automatic rep counting: Yes
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
  • GPS speed and distance: Yes
  • Customizable data pages: Yes
  • Customizable activity profiles: Yes
  • Auto Pause®: Yes
  • Interval training: Yes
  • Advanced workouts: Yes
  • Downloadable training plans: Yes
  • Auto Lap®: Yes
  • Manual lap: Yes
  • Configurable lap alerts: Yes
  • V02 max: Yes
  • Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.): Yes
  • Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC): Yes
  • Training Effect (aerobic): Yes
  • Training Effect (anaerobic): Yes
  • Customizable alerts: Yes
  • Audio prompts: Yes
  • Finish time: Yes
  • Virtual Partner: Yes
  • Race an Activity: Yes
  • Auto multisport activities: Yes
  • Manual multisport activities: Yes
  • Course guidance: Yes
  • Segments (Live, Garmin): Yes
  • Strava features (Beacon, live segments): Yes
  • LiveTrack: Yes
  • Group LiveTrack: Yes
  • Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): Yes
  • Touch and/or button lock: Yes
  • Hot keys: Yes
  • Auto scroll: Yes
  • Activity history on watch: Yes
Heart Rate Features
  • HR zones: Yes
  • HR alerts: Yes
  • HR calories: Yes
  • % HR max: Yes
  • % HRR: Yes
  • Recovery time: Yes
  • Auto max HR: Yes
  • HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels): yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Records heart rate while swimming: yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)
  • HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices): Yes
Running Features
  • Preloaded run profiles: Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running
  • GPS-based distance, time and pace: Yes
  • Running dynamics: yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length): yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry): yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Stride length (real time): yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): Yes
  • Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level): Yes
  • Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue): yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Run workouts: Yes
  • Race predictor: Yes
  • Foot pod capable: Yes
Golfing Features
  • Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): Yes
  • Yardage to layups/doglegs: Yes
  • Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic
  • Digital scorecard: Yes
  • Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): Yes
  • Garmin AutoShot™: Yes
  • Auto CourseView updates: Yes
  • Green View with manual pin position: Yes
  • Hazards and course targets: Yes
  • TruSwing™ compatible: Yes
  • Round timer/odometer: Yes
Outdoor Recreation Features
  • Preloaded outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Jumpmaster, Tactical
  • Point-to-point navigation: Yes
  • Bread crumb trail in real time: Yes
  • Back to start: Yes
  • TracBack®: Yes
  • UltraTrac mode: Yes
  • Around Me mode: Yes
  • Elevation profile: Yes
  • Distance to destination: Yes
  • Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert: Yes
  • Trail run auto climb: Yes
  • Vertical speed: Yes
  • Total ascent/descent: Yes
  • Future elevation plot: Yes
  • Preloaded topographical maps: Yes
  • Downloadable cartography support: Yes
  • Compatible with BaseCamp™: Yes
  • GPS coordinates: Yes
  • Projected waypoint: Yes
  • Sight 'N Go: Yes
  • Area calculation: yes (via Connect IQ™)
  • Hunt/fish calendar: yes (via Connect IQ™)
  • Sun and moon information: yes (via Connect IQ™)
  • Dual grid coordinates: Yes
Cycling Features
  • Preloaded cycling profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon
  • Courses: Yes
  • Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): Yes
  • Race an activity: Yes
  • Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal): Yes
  • FTP (Functional Threshold Power): Yes (with compatible accessory)
  • Garmin Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map): Yes
  • Compatible with Vector™ (power meter): Yes
  • Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters): Yes
  • Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): Yes
  • Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): Yes
  • Compatible with Varia™ lights: Yes
  • Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor): Yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors)
Swimming Features
  • Preloaded swim profiles: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running
  • Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories): Yes
  • Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly): Yes
  • Swim efficiency (SWOLF): Yes
  • Drill logging: Yes
  • Pool swim workouts: Yes
  • Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, calories): Yes
  • Heart rate (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)