Best Hybrid Watch - Our Top Picks of 2017

In the hunt for the best hybrid watch?

In this guide, you won’t find touchscreen smartwatches with puny battery lives: Only quality, smart analog watches which offer the style and attention to detail of a traditional timepiece, plus some of the benefits that come with connected wearable tech.

Best Hybrid Watch – Designer Labels

Emporio Armani Connected

So far, in our opinion, the best hybrid watch of the designer bunch is the Emporio Armani Connected. Fortified with 42 years of world-class Italian design skills, it just tick tocks all the right boxes.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, move reminder, sleep monitor, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

Calls, text, email, app alerts.

Other features include music and camera control.

Waterproof Rating

Up to 30-meters (3 ATM).

Battery

Around 6 months – Doesn’t need charging

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.1 or higher

Price Tag

Starting around $295

Fossil Q Hybrid Watches

Fossil, along with some Intel ingenuity, are the firm behind most of the designer hybrid watches currently available. Populating the Fossil Q collection are a variety of watch styles to cater for the metropolitan gent, to the suburban damsel.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, move reminder, sleep monitor, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

Calls, text, email, app alerts.

Other features include music and camera control.

Waterproof Rating

Up to 30-meters (3 ATM).

Battery

Around 6 months – Doesn’t need charging

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.2 or higher

Price Tag

Starting around $195.

Michael Kors Hybrid Watch

The man from New York has been busy cooking up a designer dish of wearable tech. Connected fashion is the future, and labels such as Michael Kors will be at the forefront, simply because they’ve got the designer logo and the experience in making gear that looks sharper than the best efforts of the big tech firms.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, sleep monitor, move reminder, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

Calls, text, email, app alerts.

Other features include music and camera control.

Waterproof Rating

Up to 30-meters (3 ATM).

Battery

Around 6 months – Doesn’t need charging

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.2 or higher

Price Tag

Starting around $250.

Diesel On DZT1003

The burly Diesel On boasts superior brawn appeal to the average hybrid watch, due its notably hefty lugs.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, sleep monitor, move reminder, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

Calls, text, app alerts.

Other features include music and camera control.

Waterproof Rating

Up to 50-meters (5 ATM).

Battery

Around 6 months – Doesn’t need charging.

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.2 or higher.

Price Tag

Starting around $225.

Skagen Hagen Connected

The stylish Skagen hybrid embodies the Fossil-owned Danish brand’s Scandinavian-inspired pedigree with its contemporary minimal aesthetic plus a dash of urbanity.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, move reminder, sleep monitor, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

Calls, text, email.

Other features include music and camera control.

Waterproof Rating

Up to 30-meters (3 ATM).

Battery

Around 6 months – Doesn’t need charging.

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.0 or higher.

Price Tag

Starting around $195.

Tommy Hilfiger TH 24/7

Compared to many of the other smart analogs, Tommy Hilfiger’s debut hybrid watch uses a less subtle method of displaying your smart information, with the OLED display built into the analog dial. The digital information being sprawled across the tidy watch face looks a little out of place, but it makes for easier reading than the mini sub dials, plus you can see who’s getting in touch from the watch.

Fitness Features

Step count, goal progress, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

Calls, text, email, app alerts.

Waterproof Rating

Up to 50-meters (5 ATM).

Battery

The TH 24/7 uses two batteries: one needs charging every 5 days or so, and the other lasts up to 2 years and doesn’t need charging.

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 9.0 or higher.

Price Tag

Starting around $195.

Best Hybrid Watch – Made in Switzerland

Movado Motion Hybrid Watch

The Swiss made Movado Motion watches combine fine detail and fashion appeal with the connected offerings of modern wearables. Pictured above is men’s Movado Motion Museum Sport.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, move reminder, sleep monitor, smart coaching, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

No smart notifications (calls, text, email, etc).

Waterproof Rating

Up to 30-meters (3 ATM).

Battery

Around 2 years – doesn’t need charging.

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.0 or higher.

Price Tag

Starting around $995.

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Alpina Horological Hybrid Smartwatch

Like the other Swiss made smart analogs, the Alpina hybrid watch collection lounges at the deluxe end of wearable technology. Fine, connected chronograph meets contemporary features.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, move reminder, sleep monitor, smart coaching, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

No smart notifications (calls, text, email, etc).

Waterproof Rating

Up to 100-meters (10 ATM).

Battery

Around 2 years – doesn’t need charging.

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.0 or higher.

Price Tag

Starting around $479.

Frederique Constant

The finely crafted Frederique Constant smart analog watches wouldn’t be out of place dwelling under the sleeve of tailored suit of an epicurean during a wine tasting experience at the Le Pre Catelan hotel. In other words, it’s pretty friggin posh.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, move reminder, sleep monitor, smart coaching, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

The Watch pictured above doesn’t feature smart notifications (calls, texts, emails, etc), but Fred is also offering another model that does.

Waterproof Rating

Up to 50-meters (5 ATM).

Battery

Around 2 years – doesn’t need charging.

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.0 or higher.

Price Tag

Starting around $595.

Mondaine Helvetica No.1 Smart

The No.1 Smart was designed in tribute to the 1957 sans-serif Helvetica typeface. A fine balance between simplistic and detail along with connected features, this hybrid watch is suitable for the modern minimalist.

Fitness Features

Step count, distance covered, calorie output, goal progress, move reminder, sleep monitor, smart coaching, vibrating alarm.

Notification Features

No smart notifications (calls, text, email, etc).

Waterproof Rating

Up to 30-meters (3 ATM).

Battery

Around 2 years – doesn’t need charging.

App

Compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.0 or higher.

Price Tag

Starting around $475.

Breitling Exospace B55 Connected

Breitling’s connected watch is designed for aviation enthusiasts. If jumping into the cockpit of an airplane is one of your pass times, then there’s a good chance the $7K price tag of this watch won’t be much of an issue.

Why do say that? I went to a friend’s wedding a few weeks ago, and the reception was at the Avitor Hotel on the outskirts of Farnborough airport. As a treat for his dad, my friend flew him in from Malaga on a Learjet. It cost him about £8.5K.. There’s money in the sky, people.

Fitness Features

The Exospace B55 Connected doesn’t do fitness tracking, but it does offer a suite of specialist aviation features, including Chrono Flight, Chrono Add, Lap Timer, and Time Zone. It also has a vibrating alarm.