Description
Specifically Designed for the Water
- Connects with compatible Garmin chartplotters and other devices to provide autopilot control³, remote waypoint marking, data streaming, sail racing assistance and much more
- Built-in FUSION-Link™ Lite app controls connected StereoActive™ products as well as other ANT®-enabled stereo models (RA70/BB100)
- Includes Elevate™ wrist-based heart rate¹, scratch-resistant sapphire lens, stainless steel bezel and 2 QuickFit® bands (stainless steel and blue silicone)
- Wi-Fi® capability plus connected features² include smart notifications, automatic uploads to Garmin Connect™ online fitness community and personalization through free watch faces and apps from our Connect IQ™ store
- Battery performance: up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode (depending on settings), up to 24 hours in GPS mode and up to 60 hours in UltraTrac™ battery saver mode
Building on the popular fēnix® 5 platform, Garmin’s next-generation multisport marine smartwatch provides comprehensive boat connectivity. It connects with compatible Garmin chartplotters and other devices to stream data to your quatix 5 Sapphire watch, including speed, depth, temperature and wind. Compact and stylish with a scratch-resistant sapphire lens and quick-change bands, it also sports advanced fitness features and a wrist-based heart rate monitor. With built-in activity profiles and performance metrics for paddle boarding, swimming and canoeing — whatever sport you want to track, quatix 5 Sapphire has you covered. It is also Wi-Fi® enabled, allowing automatic activity uploads directly to Garmin Connect when connected to wireless networks.

Take Control Anywhere On Board
Advanced autopilot control and remote waypoint marking features allow you to maintain control of your vessel, even if you are not the one at the helm. With quatix 5, you can actually access a GHC™ 20autopilot control unit to control the autopilot — change heading, turn and steer the boat. You also have remote waypoint marking, which allows you to add a waypoint from quatix 5 Sapphire and have it sync automatically with your connected chartplotter.

Take Advantage of Garmin SailAssist™ Capabilities
When it comes to sail racing, don’t just time your start, visualize it. See a virtual starting line represented on your quatix 5 Sapphire with 2 waypoints creating the starting line of a sailing race. With distance to start line, you’ll know how far you are from the line based on the distance to the virtual starting line. You’ll also have race countdown timer to count down the time to the start of the race and time to burn if the virtual starting line is present. And tack assist will determine whether the boat is being headed or lifted and then easily calibrate the boat’s port/starboard tack angles with the touch of a button.

Collect Water Sports Data
Whether you’re paddle boarding or canoeing, quatix 5 Sapphire will track your stroke and distance per stroke plus your total distance; it even provides lap tracking. Plus, if water skiing, you can check your boat speed with a glance at your quatix 5 Sapphire watch.

Navigate Across Water and Land
quatix 5 Sapphire watch is equipped with high-sensitivity GPS navigation and tracking functions plus ABC (altimeter, barometer and compass) sensor capabilities. The built-in altimeter provides elevation data to accurately monitor ascent and descent, while the barometer can be used to predict weather changes by showing short-term trends in air pressure. The 3-axis electronic compass keeps your bearing, whether you’re moving or not. In addition, there’s an internal gyroscope to help improve position accuracy (and battery life) in UltraTrac mode.

Enjoy Your Entertainment
You can actually control your onboard entertainment system with quatix 5 Sapphire. Use the built-in FUSION-Link Lite app to control connected StereoActive products as well as other ANT-enabled stereo models (RA70/BB100).

Wrist-based Heart Rate¹
On your wrist, Elevate wrist heart rate technology lets you monitor your heart rate without wearing a chest strap. In addition to counting steps and monitoring sleep, the watch uses heart rate to provide calories burned information and quantify the intensity of your fitness activities.

Built-in Activity Tracking
Whether you’re on water or dry land, quatix 5 Sapphire can track your physical activities. It features Elevate wrist-based heart-rate monitor, which provides 24/7 monitoring without the use of a chest strap. It also offers advanced fitness training features that include training statistics and activity profiles for multiple sports/activities such as running, biking, swimming, hiking and golfing. Since quatix 5 Sapphire is Wi-Fi enabled, your activity stats can automatically upload directly to Garmin Connect when connected to wireless networks.

Comprehensive Smart Connectivity
Smart notifications² through quatix 5 Sapphire let you receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch — whether you’re on the water, trail, golf course or simply away from your desk. Other connected features include automatic uploads to our Garmin Connect online fitness community, live tracking and social media sharing through our free Garmin Connect and Garmin Connect™ Mobile applications.

Always Impressive
Sleek, stylish design makes a statement on and off the water. Equipped with the Garmin exclusive QuickFit band system, quatix 5 Sapphire allows you to change the band quickly and easily with no tools. It also features preloaded marine-styled watch faces you can change to fit your mood. It’s also compatible with Connect IQ so you can download more free watch faces and activity apps.

¹See Garmin.com/ataccuracy
²When paired with a compatible smartphone
³GHC™ 20 required for autopilot control.
Wi-Fi® is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance.


General | |
Lens Material | Sapphire |
Bezel Material | stainless steel |
Case material | fiber-reinforced polymer |
QuickFit™ watch band compatible | yes (22 mm) |
Strap material | Steel |
Physical size | 47 x 47 x 15.5 mm |
Display size | 1.2” (30.4 mm) diameter |
Display resolution | 240 x 240 pixels |
Display type | sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
Weight | 156g |
Battery life | Smartwatch Mode: Up to 2 weeks GPS/HR mode: Up to 24 hours UltraTrac™ mode: Up to 60 hours without wrist heart rate |
Water rating | 10 ATM |
Color display | Yes |
Memory/History | 64 MB |
Clock Features | |
Time/date | Yes |
GPS Time Sync | Yes |
Automatic daylight saving time | Yes |
Alarm clock | Yes |
Timer | Yes |
Stopwatch | Yes |
Sunrise/sunset times | Yes |
Sensors | |
GPS | Yes |
GLONASS | Yes |
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | Yes |
Barometric altimeter | Yes |
Compass | Yes |
Gyroscope | Yes |
Accelerometer | Yes |
Thermometer | Yes |
Daily Smart Features | |
Connectivity | Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® with sapphire editions |
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | Yes |
Smart notifications | Yes |
Calendar | Yes |
Weather | Yes |
Controls smartphone music | Yes |
Find My Phone | Yes |
Find My Watch | Yes |
VIRB® Camera Remote | Yes |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | Yes |
Safety and Tracking Features | |
LiveTrack | Yes |
Group LiveTrack | Yes |
Boating Features | |
Available Boating Profiles | Boating, Sailing, Fishing |
Virtual starting line | Yes |
Countdown timer | Yes |
Tack assist mode | Yes |
Built-in barometer and tide tables | Yes |
Anchor Alarm | Yes |
Autopilot Control | yes (with compatible Garmin Marine device equipment) |
Boat Data Streaming | yes (with compatible Garmin Marine device equipment) |
Activity Tracking Features | |
Step counter | Yes |
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | Yes |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | Yes |
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) | Yes |
Calories burned | Yes |
Floors climbed | Yes |
Distance traveled | Yes |
Intensity minutes | Yes |
TrueUp™ | Yes |
Move IQ™ | Yes |
Fitness Age | yes (in app) |
Gym & Fitness Equipment | |
Available gym activity profiles | Indoor Rowing |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features | |
GPS speed and distance | Yes |
Customizable data pages | Yes |
Customizable activity profiles | Yes |
Auto Pause® | Yes |
Interval training | Yes |
Advanced workouts | Yes |
Downloadable training plans | Yes |
Auto Lap® | Yes |
Manual lap | Yes |
Configurable lap alerts | Yes |
V02 max | Yes |
Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) | Yes |
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | Yes |
Training Effect (aerobic) | Yes |
Training Effect (anaerobic) | Yes |
Customizable alerts | Yes |
Audio prompts | Yes |
Finish time | Yes |
Virtual Partner | Yes |
Race an Activity | Yes |
Auto multisport activities | Yes |
Manual multisport activities | Yes |
Course guidance | Yes |
Segments (Live, Garmin) | Yes |
Strava features (Beacon, live segments) | Yes |
Touch and/or button lock | Yes |
Hot keys | Yes |
Auto scroll | Yes |
Activity history on watch | Yes |
Heart Rate Features | |
HR zones | Yes |
HR alerts | Yes |
HR calories | Yes |
% HR max | Yes |
% HRR | Yes |
Recovery time | Yes |
Auto max HR | Yes |
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) |
Records heart rate while swimming | yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™) |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | Yes |
Running Features | |
Available run profiles | Running, Indoor Running, Trail Running |
GPS-based distance, time and pace | Yes |
Running dynamics | Yes |
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of ‘bounce’ in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Stride length (real time) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | Yes |
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | Yes |
Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Run workouts | Yes |
Race predictor | Yes |
Foot pod capable | Yes |
Golfing Features | |
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | Yes |
Yardage to layups/doglegs | Yes |
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic |
Digital scorecard | Yes |
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | Yes |
Garmin AutoShot™ | Yes |
Green View with manual pin position | Yes |
Hazards and course targets | Yes |
TruSwing™ compatible | Yes |
Outdoor Recreation Features | |
Available outdoor recreation profiles | Hiking, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Jumpmaster, Tactical |
Point-to-point navigation | Yes |
Bread crumb trail in real time | Yes |
Back to start | Yes |
TracBack® | Yes |
UltraTrac mode | Yes |
Elevation profile | Yes |
Distance to destination | Yes |
Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert | Yes |
Trail run auto climb | Yes |
Vertical speed | Yes |
Total ascent/descent | Yes |
Compatible with BaseCamp™ | Yes |
GPS coordinates | Yes |
Projected waypoint | Yes |
Sight ‘N Go | Yes |
Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Hunt/fish calendar | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Dual grid coordinates | Yes |
Cycling Features | |
Available cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking |
Courses | Yes |
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | Yes |
Race an activity | Yes |
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal) | Yes |
FTP (Functional Threshold Power) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Compatible with Vector™ (power meter) | Yes |
Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters) | Yes |
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) | Yes |
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | Yes |
Compatible with Varia™ lights | Yes |
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) | yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors) |
Swimming Features | |
Available swim profiles | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories) | Yes |
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) | Yes |
Swim efficiency (SWOLF) | Yes |
Drill logging | Yes |
Pool swim workouts | Yes |
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, calories) | Yes |
Heart rate (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™) |