{"id":74544,"date":"2025-07-19T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74544\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:07:11","slug":"you-can-save-hundreds-on-a-garmin-smartwatch-as-long-as-you-like-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74544\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Save Hundreds on a Garmin Smartwatch\u2014as Long as You Like Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is age, anyway? If you\u2019d bought the Garmin f\u0113nix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar<\/a> prior to the f\u0113nix 8 coming along in August 2024, would you have run out immediately to replace it? The f\u0113nix 7 was released in January 2022. It\u2019s not exactly a withered peach.<\/p>\n

The f\u0113nix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar may not be the flagship smartwatch in Garmin\u2019s lineup anymore, but then again it\u2019s not priced like a flagship anymore. Once upon a time, these sold for $900. Now you can get one for $500, as long as you like black.<\/p>\n

a very specific deal<\/p>\n

I hope you like a 47mm watch face, because that\u2019s the only size available on this deal. The 42mm and 51mm versions aren\u2019t on the same sale. Oh, and you\u2019d better like black. There are lots of colors for the f\u0113nix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar. Most of them aren\u2019t on sale.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarbon Gray DLC Titanium,\u201d with the black watch band, is almost as cheap at $550<\/a>, so if you like that more than the standard black to the tune of paying a $50 premium, it\u2019s not bad. And slate gray<\/a> with the black watch band, too.<\/p>\n

The rest of the colors aren\u2019t on much of a real sale. I say real sale because while the retail price of the Garmin f\u0113nix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar is pegged at $900, it rarely still sells for that much.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019ve never seen it this cheap at $500<\/a>, its actual selling price usually hovers between $650 and $700. Only for rare, brief moments since November 2024, after the f\u0113nix 8 had supplanted it, has it sold for the full $900.<\/p>\n

The \u201cSapphire\u201d in Sapphire Solar means sapphire glass, which is more scratch-resistant than plain mineral glass. I wear a watch every day and whack my wrist on door knobs and frames way too often. My watches with Sapphire glass are much, much less likely to come away scratched from these love taps than the plain glass watches. It\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is age, anyway? If you\u2019d bought the Garmin f\u0113nix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar prior to the f\u0113nix…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[705,18094,3742,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-74544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-garmin","10":"tag-smartwatch","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114878168952003002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}