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Garmin Instinct 2X Solar

Garmin Instinct 2X Solar

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Garmin Instinct 2X Solar

Whatever you do, own it with Instinct® 2X Solar. This bold, rugged GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you and unique enough to fit your style. Plus, solar charging gives you unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode when exposed to 3 hours of direct sunlight (50,000 lux) per day. 

About Garmin Instinct 2X Solar

The Garmin Instinct 2X Solar is built to match your pace—no matter how rugged, wild, or unpredictable your lifestyle is. With military-standard durability, unlimited solar-charged battery life, and high-precision tracking, this GPS smartwatch keeps going when everything else stops. Whether you're on the trail, in the gym, or just living life full throttle, it delivers the features you need without slowing you down.

Train Harder and Longer with Solar Charging Power

If you're tired of charging your watch every few days, you won’t have to anymore. With a Power Glass™ solar lens and smart battery management, you get the freedom of unlimited power in smartwatch mode. Even during demanding GPS use, solar charging drastically extends your battery life. And with customizable power settings, you control what drains your battery and when.

  • Unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode with solar
  • Up to 145 hours of GPS runtime with solar
  • Power Manager to adjust usage based on activity
  • 50% more solar efficiency than previous models

Train Your Way with Built-In Sports Profiles

No matter your workout style, this watch is ready. From strength training to trail running, obstacle courses to open-water swimming, every movement is tracked with purpose. With adaptive daily workout suggestions, VO2 Max, and recovery time guidance, it’s like having a performance coach on your wrist. You can even tackle HIIT workouts with full interval customization.

  • Profiles for running, cycling, swimming, yoga, and more
  • Obstacle Course Racing tracking with auto lap recognition
  • VO2 Max and recovery recommendations
  • Daily suggested workouts tailored to you

Find Your Way with Advanced Navigation Features

When you’re out exploring, accurate navigation is everything. Multi-band GNSS gives you stronger location precision even in tough environments. TracBack takes you back the same way you came, and ABC sensors give you elevation, weather trends, and direction at a glance. And when you need to return to a known spot, Reference Point keeps you oriented and on track.

  • Multi-band GNSS for pinpoint location tracking
  • ABC sensors: altimeter, barometer, and compass
  • TracBack® routing to reverse your route
  • Reference Point to mark and return to key locations

Stay Connected, Even When You're Off-Grid

Whether you're out in nature or stuck in meetings, your watch keeps you connected. Receive calls, messages, and app alerts straight to your wrist. With Garmin Pay, you can check out with a tap, and Connect IQ lets you download apps and custom watch faces. If safety is a concern, built-in incident detection and assistance features can alert emergency contacts.

  • Smart notifications (texts, calls, app alerts)
  • Garmin Pay™ contactless payments
  • Connect IQ™ for apps, widgets, and faces
  • Assistance and incident detection safety tools

Monitor Your Health 24/7 with Wearable Wellness Tools

More than just a fitness watch, the Instinct 2X Solar helps you understand your body. It tracks heart rate, sleep, respiration, blood oxygen, stress, and energy levels continuously. Wake up to a personalized Morning Report showing your sleep score, recovery insights, and overall readiness so you know what kind of day to expect—before your feet hit the floor.

  • Wrist-based heart rate and Pulse Ox monitoring
  • Advanced sleep tracking with personalized sleep score
  • Body Battery™ for energy level tracking
  • Morning Report with sleep, HRV, and recovery info

Built to Handle Everything You Throw at It

Big, bold, and built to take abuse—this watch is made for real-world wear. The 50mm fiber-reinforced case is shock, thermal, and water resistant to 100 meters. The high-contrast dual-window display is easy to read in sunlight, and the built-in multi-LED flashlight with red and white modes keeps you visible after dark. It's not just tough—it’s tactical in the best way.

  • Rugged design tested to military standards (MIL-STD-810)
  • Water-rated to 10 ATM (100 meters)
  • LED flashlight with adjustable brightness and red mode
  • High-visibility monochrome MIP display

Garmin Instinct® 2X Solar Specifications

General

  • Product Name: Garmin Instinct® 2X Solar
  • Case Material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
  • Bezel Material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
  • Strap Material: Silicone
  • QuickFit® Watch Band Compatible: Yes (26 mm)
  • Water Rating: 10 ATM
  • Weight: 67 g
  • Physical Size: 50 x 50 x 14.5 mm
  • Fits Wrist Circumference: 145–228 mm

Display

  • Display Type: Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
  • Display Size: Custom, two-window design; 1.1” x 1.1” (27 x 27 mm)
  • Display Resolution: 176 x 176 pixels
  • Lens Material: Power Glass™

Battery

  • Battery Type: Lithium ion
  • Charging Method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
  • Smartwatch Mode: 40 days / Unlimited with solar*
  • GPS Mode: 60 hours / 145 hours with solar**
  • All Satellite Systems: 40 hours / 65 hours with solar*
  • All Satellite Systems + Multi-Band: 27 hours / 36 hours with solar**
  • Max Battery GPS Mode: 150 hours / Unlimited with solar**
  • Expedition GPS Activity: 60 days / Unlimited with solar*
  • Battery Saver Watch Mode: 100 days / Unlimited with solar*
  • Solar Charging: Yes (Power Glass™)

Memory

  • Memory/History: 64 MB

Sensors

  • GPS: Yes
  • GLONASS: Yes
  • Galileo: Yes
  • Multi-Band GNSS: Yes
  • Garmin Elevate™ Wrist Heart Rate Monitor: Yes
  • Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: Yes
  • Barometric Altimeter: Yes
  • Compass: Yes
  • Gyroscope: Yes
  • Accelerometer: Yes
  • Thermometer: Yes

Health & Wellness Monitoring

  • Wrist-Based Heart Rate: Yes (constant, every second)
  • Resting Heart Rate: Yes
  • Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low)
  • Respiration Rate: Yes
  • Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: Yes
  • All-Day Stress Tracking: Yes
  • Relaxation Breathing Timer: Yes
  • Breathwork: Yes
  • Sleep Tracking: Yes
  • Sleep Score and Insights: Yes
  • Morning Report: Yes
  • Pulse Ox: Yes
  • HRV Status: Yes
  • Hydration Tracking: Yes (in Garmin Connect™)
  • Women's Health Tracking: Yes (in Garmin Connect™)
  • Health Snapshot: Yes

Daily Smart Features

  • Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®
  • Smart Notifications: Yes
  • Text Response/Reject Phone Call with Text: Yes (Android™ only)
  • Garmin Pay™: Yes
  • Music Control: Yes
  • Calendar: Yes
  • Weather Forecasts: Yes
  • Find My Phone: Yes
  • Find My Watch: Yes
  • VIRB® Remote: Yes
  • Smart Trainer Control: Yes
  • Connect IQ™ Store: Yes (watch faces, data fields, apps)
  • Sync with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: Yes
  • Smartphone Compatibility: iPhone®, Android™

Safety & Tracking

  • Incident Detection: Yes (during select activities)
  • Assistance: Yes

Tactical Features

  • Dual Grid Coordinates: Yes
  • XERO™ Locations: Yes

Built-In Features

  • Built-in LED Flashlight: Yes (white and red safety light modes)
  • Obstacle Course Racing: Yes
  • HIIT Workouts: Yes

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

Activity Tracking

  • Step Counter: Yes
  • Move Alerts: Yes
  • Auto Goal: Yes
  • Calories Burned: Yes
  • Floors Climbed: Yes
  • Distance Traveled: Yes
  • Intensity Minutes: Yes
  • TrueUp™: Yes
  • Move IQ™: Yes
  • Automatic Rep Counting: Yes

Training & Analysis

  • Customizable Data Pages: Yes
  • Downloadable Training Plans: Yes
  • Course Guidance: Yes
  • Heart Rate Zones: Yes
  • Heart Rate Alerts: Yes
  • Heart Rate Calories: Yes
  • % HR Max / HRR: Yes
  • Auto Max HR: Yes
  • Recovery Time: Yes
  • Respiration Rate During Exercise: Yes
  • GPS Speed & Distance: Yes
  • Auto Pause®: Yes
  • Interval Training: Yes
  • Advanced Workouts: Yes
  • Power Modes: Yes (customizable)
  • Auto Lap® / Manual Lap: Yes
  • Heat and Altitude Acclimation: Yes
  • VO2 Max: Yes (Run and Trail Run)
  • Training Load / Training Effect / Anaerobic: Yes
  • Primary Benefit Labels: Yes
  • Custom Alerts: Yes
  • Voice Alerts: Yes
  • Finish Time Estimator: Yes
  • Virtual Partner: Yes
  • Race an Activity: Yes
  • Manual Multisport Activities: Yes
  • Touch/Button Lock, Auto Scroll: Yes
  • Activity History on Watch: Yes
  • Unified Training Status: Yes

Running Features

  • GPS-Based Distance, Time, Pace: Yes
  • Running Dynamics: Yes (with accessory)
  • Vertical Oscillation & Ratio / Ground Contact: Yes (with accessory)
  • Stride Length: Yes (real-time, with accessory)
  • Cadence: Yes
  • Running Power: Yes
  • Grade-Adjusted Pace: Yes
  • Performance Condition / Lactate Threshold: Yes (with accessory)
  • Run Workouts: Yes
  • Trail Run Auto Climb: Yes
  • Race Predictor: Yes
  • Foot Pod Compatible: Yes
  • Run/Walk/Stand Detection: Yes

Outdoor Recreation

  • ABC Sensors: Yes
  • TracBack® Routing: Yes
  • Reference Point: Yes
  • Back to Start: Yes
  • UltraTrac Mode: Yes
  • Elevation Profile: Yes
  • Storm Alert / Barometric Trend: Yes
  • Total Ascent/Descent / Vertical Speed: Yes
  • Future Elevation Plot: Yes
  • GPS Coordinates / Sight 'N Go: Yes
  • Area Calculation / Projected Waypoint: Yes
  • Sun and Moon Information: Yes
  • Expedition GPS Activity: Yes
  • Tide Data / Glance: Yes

Swimming Features

  • Open-Water Swim Metrics: Yes
  • Pool Swim Metrics: Yes
  • Stroke Type Detection: Yes
  • Drill Logging / Auto Rest / Rest Timers: Yes
  • Time & Distance Alerts / Countdown Start: Yes
  • Pool Swim Workouts: Yes
  • Underwater Wrist-Based Heart Rate: Yes
  • External HRM Compatibility: Yes

  • Garmin Instinct 2X Solar Tactical Edition smartwatch
  • Silicone strap for comfort and durability
  • Charging cable with Power Glass™ lens
  • Documentation and user manual
  • Additional tools or accessories (if applicable, depending on the package)

Customer Reviews

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J
J.F.
Exceptional Quality Smartwatch with Accurate Tracking

Amazing watch, more than I expected. The watch looks amazing. The tracking apps IE sleep, heart rate, etc are incredibly accurate. This is a high quality well built watch.

M
M.T.R.
Perfect for Active Life: Explore the Limitless Menu

simply neat and good for active lifestyle of an individual. Customer needs to explore the endless and overflowing menu of the watch

r
r.o.
Durable, Stylish Smartwatch with Long Battery Life

Full charge is good for 40 days. Full charge using light is 6 hrs. Great to have if you walk around outside at night and when looking for things in low light areas. Watch seems to be rugged and stylish. Price is great compared to other smart watches. Connects right to my iPhone and has some of the same features as Apple Watch. I haven’t had chance to use all of them yet

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j.
Great Watch with Minor Accuracy Issues

Ok,so rather than go on and on about all the great things about this watch. The two things I found that are not accurate, 1st the ox sensor reads 3 to 4% lower, 2nd I live upstairs and I go up and down my stairs about 5 times a day and the floor counter on the watch does not record this everytime. Neither of these are really important to me but it's the reason for four instead of 5 star's. I really like this watch actually I think it's awsome .if you buy one you won't be disappointed. I started with a cheapy off brand and for the first week it worked great even allowed me to make and receive phone calls and texts.but then I started swimming with it on, it's said waterproof ip68,but that's when things started going downhill, so I decided to buy quality American made not China junk.this watch I swim with everyday and no issues of course I didn't expect any with a 5atm rating. Battery life is great

J
J.
Large Screen Garmin with Long Battery Life

Pretty huge on my lady-wrist, and will need to replace the silicone band with a stretchy one before it gives me a rash, but that's true for any Garmin with these bands. Now, the watch /tracker itself is fully loaded with about a zillion features (most of which I won't use), and the battery life is unbeatable! My Instinct v1 was great for a while, then started randomly turning off more and more often. I got this one hoping it's more reliable. So far, so good. Time will tell. Bonus: cool little flashlight and monster sized screen are good for these old eyes.

Shipping & Delivery

  • 1. Order Confirmation

    Right after checkout you receive an email summarizing your purchase, billing & shipping details, and order number. Keep this message handy—it’s your receipt and first reference point.

  • 2. Processing

    Our team verifies payment, allocates stock, and preps the paperwork. If anything stalls (e.g., back‑order), we’ll reach out by phone or email with options.

  • 3. Packing & Labeling

    Products are securely boxed or palletized, then matched with the best carrier: small parcels go UPS/FedEx/USPS; bulky items ride LTL freight. Lead‑time estimates live on every product page.

  • 4. Shipping & Tracking

    As soon as your label prints, you’ll get a “Shipment on the way” email with tracking and a Bill of Lading (for freight). Follow the link to watch each scan in real time.

  • 5. Delivery

    • Small packages: arrive at your door with no signature required.
    • Freight: the local terminal calls to book a curbside appointment. Be present to sign, inspect, and note any damage before the driver leaves.
  • 6. Inspection, Support & Setup

    Open every box within 2‑3 days. If parts are missing or damaged, snap photos/video and email help@myfitnessoutlet.com—we’ll fast‑track replacements. Need assembly? Confirm your service date or tackle setup yourself.

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Do you offer a money‑back guarantee?

Yes. Try any product for 30 days. If it isn’t the perfect fit, return it in original condition for a full refund—no restocking fees. (Shipping fees apply only if the return isn’t due to our error or freight damage.)

Are your products covered by a warranty?

Absolutely. Every brand we carry comes with the manufacturer’s warranty—minimum 1 year, often longer on frames and motors. We’re an authorized dealer, so your warranty is 100 % valid. Need help with a claim? Our support team handles all paperwork for you.

Will you price‑match another store?

Yes. If you find an identical item in stock at a lower delivered price, send us the quote or link before you buy and we’ll match it. Our Price‑Match Guarantee protects you for 60 days after purchase as well.

Can I finance my order?

We partner with Shop Pay Installments to offer 0 % APR promos (on approved credit). Choose “Pay Monthly” at checkout to split the total into 3–24 equal payments—no hidden fees.

How long will my order take to arrive?

Processing: 1–3 business days. Transit: 3–14 business days for most U.S. addresses.
Need a precise ETA or have a deadline? Chat with us and we’ll confirm stock and carrier schedules before you buy.

Can I change or cancel my order after checkout?

Yes—if it hasn’t shipped yet. Contact us within 12 hours (small parcels) or before the Bill of Lading is generated (freight) and we’ll adjust or cancel at no cost. Once an item is in transit, standard return terms apply.

Do you provide inside delivery or assembly?

Standard freight is curbside. If you’d like room‑of‑choice delivery, white‑glove setup, or haul‑away of packaging, let us know—these services can be scheduled for an added fee at checkout or any time before the shipment reaches your local terminal.

Do you give discounts on bulk or commercial orders?

Yes. Gyms, hotels, schools, PT clinics, and corporate wellness centers qualify for volume pricing, custom quotes, and flexible NET 30 terms. Contact our commercial team at sales@myfitnessoutlet.com.

What if I don't like it?

Snap photos/video, note “DAMAGED” on the driver’s receipt, and email help@myfitnessoutlet.com within 48 hours. We’ll overnight replacement parts or send a brand‑new unit if needed—zero hassle to you.


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