Garmin · 2020
tactix® Delta - Sapphire EditionSize, Dimensions & Wrist Fit
The Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition sits best on flat wrist widths of about 54–73mm (≈ 14.4–19.5cm wrist circumference). Adjust the slider below to check your wrist.
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The tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition in short
The figures that decide whether this watch suits you, pulled out of the full specification sheet further down.
- Between 15 hours and 80 days per charge depending on the power mode — battery saver at best, gps + music at worst.
- 97g on the wrist. Heavier than 80% of the 51mm watches we have weights for.
- 1.4” (35.56 mm) diameter display.
- Takes 26mm bands, so third-party straps fit without an adapter.
Does the tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition fit your wrist?
Drag the slider to your wrist width and see the tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition overlaid at true scale. Lug-to-lug — not case diameter — decides whether a watch overhangs your wrist.
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The tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition drawn to scale — from above, and in profile against the wrist.
- Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition51mm · 14.9mm thick
3D preview
Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition 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 tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition lasts, by power mode
Runtime changes by a factor of 128 depending on what you leave switched on. Bars are scaled against the longest mode.
- Battery Saver80 days
- Expedition GPS Activity46 days
- Smartwatch21 days
- Max Battery GPS120 hours
- GPS60 hours
- GPS + Music15 hours
How the tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition ranks on battery
Against the 268 Garmin watches in our database, ranked on each figure Garmin publishes.
- Everyday use21 days#63 of 257
- GPS tracking60 hours#30 of 233
- Power save80 days#17 of 106
What size band does the tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition take?
Lug width
26mm
Any 26mm 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 26mm and quick-release before buying.
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tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition specifications
The figures that decide a purchase, followed by every line Garmin publishes.
- Battery life
- Smartwatch: Up to 21 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 80 days GPS: Up to 60 hours GPS + Music: Up to 15 hours Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 120 hours Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 46 days
- Display
- 1.4” (35.56 mm) diameter
- Resolution
- 280 x 280 pixels
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover and knurled buttons
- Bezel
- Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) coated steel
- Glass
- Domed Sapphire Crystal
- Strap
- silicone
- Storage
- 32 GB
- Charging
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
Full specification sheet
224 published lines across 20 groups, unedited
Overview
- Family
- Garmin
General
- Battery life
- Smartwatch: Up to 21 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 80 days GPS: Up to 60 hours GPS + Music: Up to 15 hours Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 120 hours Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 46 days
- Display Size
- 1.4” (35.56 mm) diameter
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover and knurled buttons
- Color display
- Lens Material
- Domed Sapphire Crystal
- Bezel Material
- Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) coated steel
- Memory/History
- 32 GB
- Strap material
- silicone
- Charging method
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Display resolution
- 280 x 280 pixels
- QuickFit® watch band compatible
- included (26 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
- 010-02357-00
- Product ID
- 696005
- Product Name
- tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition
- Release Date
- 1/20/2020
- Product Variation
- Premium Tactical GPS Watch with Silicone Band
Clock Features
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Time/date
- Alarm clock
- GPS Time Sync
- Sunrise/sunset times
- Automatic daylight saving time
Cycling Features
- Courses
- MTB Grit & Flow
- Race an activity
- Power meter compatible
- Advanced cycling dynamics
- 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)
- Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point)
- 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
- Run/Walk/Stand detection
- 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™
- Music storage
- Training status
- Pulse Ox blood oxygen
- Sleep score and insights
Activity Profiles
- Gym
- Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates, Yoga
- Swim
- Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running
- Cycling
- Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon
- Outdoor recreation
- Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Adventure Racing, Jumpmaster, Tactical, Expedition
Swimming Features
- Pool swim workouts
- Critical swim speed
- Time and distance alerts
- Auto rest (pool swim only)
- Drill logging (pool swim only)
- Pacing alerts (pool swim only)
- Countdown start (pool swim only)
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
- "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only)
- 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
- Kill switch
- Stealth Mode
- Night vision mode
- 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™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
- Fitness age
- yes (in app)
- All-day stress
- Women's health
- yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
- Respiration rate
- Resting heart rate
- Abnormal heart rate alerts
- 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
Kid Activity Tracking Features
- Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app
- yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app)
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
- Improved recovery time
- Configurable lap alerts
- Customizable data pages
- Unified training status
- 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 tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition
Watches that cover a similar amount of wrist, with the measurements that separate them.
Garmin
tactix® 8 – 51 mm, AMOLED
- Width
- 51mm
- Thick
- 14.7mm
- Weight
- 92g
Garmin
tactix® 8 – 51 mm, Solar, Elite
- Width
- 51mm
- Thick
- 15.4mm
- Weight
- 95g
Garmin
tactix® 8 – 51 mm, Solar
- Width
- 51mm
- Thick
- 15.4mm
- Weight
- 95g
Garmin
Enduro™ 3
- Width
- 51mm
- Thick
- 15.7mm
- Weight
- 63g
Garmin
fēnix® 8 – 51 mm, Solar
- Width
- 51mm
- Thick
- 15.4mm
- Weight
- 95g
Garmin
fēnix® 8 – 51 mm, AMOLED
- Width
- 51mm
- Thick
- 14.7mm
- Weight
- 102g
tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition — Frequently Asked Questions
Will the Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition fit my wrist?
The Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition looks balanced on flat wrist widths of roughly 54–73mm (about 14.4–19.5cm circumference). Drag the slider above to check it against your own measurement.
What size band does the Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition take?
26mm. Any 26mm 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 tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition battery last?
Between 15 hours and 80 days per charge, depending on the power mode. Garmin rates Battery Saver at 80 days and GPS + Music at 15 hours; the chart above lists all 6 modes.
How does the Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition battery compare with other Garmin watches?
At 21 days in everyday use it ranks #63 of the 257 Garmin watches in our database — the top 25% of the range. The full ranking, including GPS and power-saving figures, is on our Garmin battery life comparison.
Is the Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition thick for a 51mm watch?
At 14.9mm, thinner than 88% of 51mm watches, so it slides under a cuff more easily than most of its size. 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 tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition?
Huawei Watch D, Omega Seamaster Chrono-Quartz, Tissot Lepine Mechanical all sit within half a millimetre of the Garmin tactix® Delta - Sapphire Edition's 51mm case, so they cover the same amount of wrist.
