Garmin · 2020
quatix® 6Size, Dimensions & Wrist Fit
The Garmin quatix® 6 sits best on flat wrist widths of about 49–67mm (≈ 13.1–17.9cm wrist circumference). Adjust the slider below to check your wrist.
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The quatix® 6 in short
The figures that decide whether this watch suits you, pulled out of the full specification sheet further down.
- Between 10 hours and 48 days per charge depending on the power mode — battery saver at best, gps and music at worst.
- 83g on the wrist. Heavier than 92% of the 47mm watches we have weights for.
- 1.3” (33.02 mm) diameter display.
- Takes 22mm bands, so third-party straps fit without an adapter.
Does the quatix® 6 fit your wrist?
Drag the slider to your wrist width and see the quatix® 6 overlaid at true scale. Lug-to-lug — not case diameter — decides whether a watch overhangs your wrist.
Happy with the fit? Check current availability for the quatix® 6.
Check offer2D Dimension Schematics
The quatix® 6 drawn to scale — from above, and in profile against the wrist.
- Garmin quatix® 647mm · 14.7mm thick
3D preview
Garmin quatix® 6 on a wrist
On an arm sized to your own wrist — the view a product photo never gives you.
Shapes are built from published measurements, not manufacturer 3D models — accurate proportions, generic dial.
How long the quatix® 6 lasts, by power mode
Runtime changes by a factor of 115 depending on what you leave switched on. Bars are scaled against the longest mode.
- Battery saver48 days
- Expedition GPS activity28 days
- Smartwatch14 days
- Max battery GPS72 hours
- GPS36 hours
- GPS and music10 hours
How the quatix® 6 ranks on battery
Against the 268 Garmin watches in our database, ranked on each figure Garmin publishes.
- Everyday use14 days#116 of 257
- GPS tracking36 hours#82 of 233
- Power save48 days#46 of 106
What size band does the quatix® 6 take?
Lug width
22mm
Any 22mm strap fits, so you are not restricted to Garmin's own bands. Quick-release pins let you swap without tools — check that a replacement lists 22mm and quick-release before buying.
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quatix® 6 specifications
The figures that decide a purchase, followed by every line Garmin publishes.
- Battery life
- Smartwatch mode: Up to 14 days GPS mode: Up to 36 hours GPS and music: Up to 10 hours Max battery GPS mode: 72 hours Expedition GPS activity: 28 days Battery saver watch mode: 48 days
- Display
- 1.3” (33.02 mm) diameter
- Resolution
- 260 x 260 pixels
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
- Bezel
- stainless steel
- Glass
- Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
- Strap
- silicone
- Storage
- 32 GB
- Charging
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
Full specification sheet
217 published lines across 20 groups, unedited
Overview
- Family
- Garmin
General
- Battery life
- Smartwatch mode: Up to 14 days GPS mode: Up to 36 hours GPS and music: Up to 10 hours Max battery GPS mode: 72 hours Expedition GPS activity: 28 days Battery saver watch mode: 48 days
- Display Size
- 1.3” (33.02 mm) diameter
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
- Color display
- Lens Material
- Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
- Bezel Material
- stainless steel
- Memory/History
- 32 GB
- Strap material
- silicone
- Charging method
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Display resolution
- 260 x 260 pixels
- QuickFit® watch band compatible
- included (22 mm)
Sensors
- GPS
- Compass
- GLONASS
- Galileo
- Gyroscope
- Thermometer
- Accelerometer
- Barometric altimeter
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor
- yes (with acclimation)
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Product Info
- Main SKU
- 010-02158-90
- Product ID
- 699976
- Product Name
- quatix® 6
- Release Date
- 4/2/2020
- Product Variation
- Gray with Captain Blue Band
Clock Features
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Time/date
- Alarm clock
- GPS Time Sync
- Sunrise/sunset times
- Automatic daylight saving time
Boating Features
- Anchor Alarm
- Countdown timer
- Tack assist mode
- Autopilot Control
- Boat Data Streaming
- Virtual starting line
- Available Boating Profiles
- Boating, Sailing, Sail Racing
- Built-in barometer and tide tables
- yes (downloadable tides)
Cycling Features
- Courses
- Race an activity
- Power meter compatible
- Compatible with Varia™ lights
- FTP (Functional Threshold Power)
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)
- Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map)
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters)
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
Golfing Features
- PinPointer
- Custom targets
- Full vector map
- Handicap scoring
- Digital scorecard
- Garmin AutoShot™
- PlaysLike distance
- Round timer/odometer
- TruSwing™ compatible
- Auto CourseView updates
- Yardage to layups/doglegs
- Hazards and course targets
- Green View with manual pin position
- Preloaded with 43,000 courses worldwide
- CT10 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)
- automatic
Running Features
- Run workouts
- Race predictor
- Foot pod capable
- Running dynamics
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Lactate threshold
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Trail run auto climb
- Performance condition
- Stride length (real time)
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- PacePro™ Pacing Strategies
- Vertical oscillation and ratio
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Ground contact time and balance
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- GPS-based distance, time and pace
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
What You'll Love
- Garmin Pay™
- Training status
- Pulse Ox blood oxygen
- yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
Activity Profiles
- Gym
- Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates, Yoga
- Swim
- Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swim Running
- Cycling
- Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon
- Wellness
- Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking
- Outdoor recreation
- Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, Tactical
Swimming Features
- Pool swim workouts
- Drill logging (pool swim only)
- Countdown start (pool swim only)
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
- Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim)
- yes (with HRM-Tri, HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus)
Tactical Features
- XERO™ Locations
- Dual grid coordinates
Outdoor Recreation
- Tides
- yes (via Connect IQ™)
- TracBack®
- Sight 'N Go
- Back to start
- Fish forecast
- yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Explore Nearby
- UltraTrac mode
- Vertical speed
- GPS coordinates
- Area calculation
- yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Elevation profile
- Projected waypoint
- Total ascent/descent
- Future elevation plot
- Distance to destination
- Expedition GPS Activity
- Sun and moon information
- yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Point-to-point navigation
- Preloaded ski resort maps
- ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner
- Preloaded road and trail maps
- Bread crumb trail in real time
- Downloadable cartography support
- Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert
Daily Smart Features
- Calendar
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- Find My Phone
- Find My Watch
- VIRB® Remote
- Weather forecasts
- Smart Notifications
- Smartphone compatibility
- iPhone®, Android™
- Controls smartphone music
- Plays and controls watch music
- Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
- Battery saver (customizable low power watch)
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps)
Activity Tracking Features
- TrueUp™
- Move IQ™
- Step counter
- Floors climbed
- Calories burned
- Distance traveled
- Intensity minutes
- Automatic rep counting
- Garmin Connect™ Challenges app
- yes (optional Connect IQ app)
- Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity)
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Workout and Training Plans
- Yoga workouts
- Cardio workouts
- Pilates workouts
- Strength workouts
- On-screen workout animations
Health & Wellness Monitoring
- Sleep
- yes (advanced)
- Hydration
- yes (in Garmin Connect™)
- Fitness age
- yes (in app)
- All-day stress
- Women's health
- yes (in Garmin Connect™)
- Respiration rate
- Resting heart rate
- Relaxation reminders
- Abnormal heart rate alerts
- yes (high and low)
- Relaxation breathing timer
- Body Battery™ energy monitor
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
Safety and Tracking Features
- Assistance
- Live Event Sharing
- Incident Detection during select activities
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
- % HRR
- % HR max
- HR zones
- HR alerts
- Shortcuts
- Manual lap
- Auto max HR
- Auto scroll
- Finish time
- HR calories
- Voice alerts
- Custom alerts
- Physio TrueUp
- Recovery time
- Training load
- VO2 Max (Run)
- Course guidance
- Training effect
- Virtual Partner
- Race an Activity
- Advanced workouts
- Interval training
- Training load focus
- Garmin Live Segments
- Strava Live Segments
- GPS speed and distance
- Configurable lap alerts
- Customizable data pages
- Touch and/or button lock
- Activity history on watch
- Downloadable training plans
- Training effect (anaerobic)
- Manual multisport activities
- Heat and altitude acclimation
- Customizable activity profiles
- Trendline™ Popularity Routing
- yes (available as a wearable map theme)
- Auto Pause® automatic timer halt
- Respiration rate (during exercise)
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Auto Lap® interval tracking feature
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels)
- Round-trip course creator (running/cycling)
- Power Modes - customizable in-activity battery settings
- HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices)
- HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels)
- yes (with compatible accessory)
Alternatives to the quatix® 6
Watches that cover a similar amount of wrist, with the measurements that separate them.
Garmin
Forerunner® 970
- Width
- 47mm
- Thick
- 12.9mm
- Weight
- 56g
Garmin
Forerunner® 570 - 47mm
- Width
- 47mm
- Thick
- 12.9mm
- Weight
- 50g
Garmin
tactix® 8 – 47 mm, AMOLED
- Width
- 47mm
- Thick
- 13.8mm
- Weight
- 73g
Garmin
fēnix® 8 – 47 mm, Solar
- Width
- 47mm
- Thick
- 15.2mm
- Weight
- 80g
Garmin
fēnix® 8 – 47 mm, AMOLED
- Width
- 47mm
- Thick
- 13.8mm
- Weight
- 80g
Garmin
quatix® 7 Pro
- Width
- 47mm
- Thick
- 14.6mm
- Weight
- 70g
quatix® 6 — Frequently Asked Questions
Will the Garmin quatix® 6 fit my wrist?
The Garmin quatix® 6 looks balanced on flat wrist widths of roughly 49–67mm (about 13.1–17.9cm circumference). Drag the slider above to check it against your own measurement.
What size band does the Garmin quatix® 6 take?
22mm. Any 22mm strap fits, so you are not limited to Garmin's own bands — look for a quick-release fitting if you want to swap without tools.
How long does the Garmin quatix® 6 battery last?
Between 10 hours and 48 days per charge, depending on the power mode. Garmin rates Battery saver at 48 days and GPS and music at 10 hours; the chart above lists all 6 modes.
How does the Garmin quatix® 6 battery compare with other Garmin watches?
At 14 days in everyday use it ranks #116 of the 257 Garmin watches in our database — the top 45% of the range. The full ranking, including GPS and power-saving figures, is on our Garmin battery life comparison.
Is the Garmin quatix® 6 thick for a 47mm watch?
At 14.7mm, thicker than 85% of 47mm watches — it will sit noticeably high on the wrist. Thickness, not case width, is what decides whether a watch catches on a shirt cuff.
What other watches are the same size as the Garmin quatix® 6?
Oppo Watch X3, Xiaomi Watch 5, CMF Watch 3 Pro, Amazfit Balance 2 all sit within half a millimetre of the Garmin quatix® 6's 47mm case, so they cover the same amount of wrist.
