Suunto

Spartan Sport Wrist HR Baro Watch

Upgraded with a barometric altimeter, the Suunto Spartan Sport Wrist HR Baro Watch caters to backcountry skiers, climbers, mountaineers, and trail runners seeking a multi-sport watch with accurate altitude readings. Besides its barometric altimeter, the watch is similar to the standard Spartan Sport, meaning it's a great addition to your training regimen, everyday activities, and outdoor adventures with 80-plus sport modes, wrist-based heart rate monitoring, and built-in GPS for finding new routes and measuring elapsed distance.

Unfortunately, not everyday is filled with alpine adventures. Realizing this, Suunto equipped this watch with 24/7 activity tracking for monitoring your steps throughout the day, sleep duration overnight, and daily resting heart rate. When it's time to hit the gym, the wrist-based heart rate monitor does an excellent job of estimating your overall heart rate with in-depth graphs, heart rate zones, and on-screen indicators depicting just how much effort you're exerting. And seeing it's meant for life beyond the confines of a gym, the watch's built-in GPS/GLONASS receiver allows you to follow routes through the mountains, track your way back to the trail head, and measure elapsed distance in outdoor settings.

One of the best things about Suunto Watches is the extensive support you'll receive with Suunto's Movescount app that's available for Android, iOS (i.e. iPhone/iPad), Mac, and desktop PCs, which allows you to upload more than 80 different sport modes, as well as view all your exercise data  on your mobile device and computer. Bluetooth Smart wirelessly feeds data to your mobile device, so you won't have to necessarily plug your watch into a computer. And when it's time to recharge your watch, simply plug it into any USB port for rapid charging with the included USB cable.