Suunto has launched a new premium sports watch, the Suunto 9 Peak, which is its thinnest and lightest device to date.
There’s been a growing interest in smaller, lighter fitness watches over recent years. Garmin, for example, has created compact ‘S’ versions of its most popular running watches (including the new Garmin Venu 2), and the recently released Polar Ignite 2 packs serious training tools into a super slim case.
The Suunto 9 Peak continues this trend, and is 37% thinner and 36% lighter than its predecessor, the Suunto 9 Baro. By our calculations should make it around 10.6mm thick and 51.8g, though at the time of writing the official specs have yet to be released.
That’s substantially thinner than the Ignite 2, but also heavier – likely due to Suunto’s choice of premium materials, which include more metal and less plastic than Polar’s watch.
The Suunto 9 Peak is a premium watch, with a price to match, and will be available with either a titanium or stainless steel case. The titanium model comes in Granite Blue or Birch White, and…
