Garmin 255

I have been using the Garmin watches after I used the Apple Watch but detested having to charge the watch almost everyday. I started with the Forerunner 255 (7 day battery life, then upgraded to the Fenix 8 solar with battery life of 18 days. I can certainly entertain getting a Pebble watch since I loved the timer feature that calculated the time the timer would go off so you did not have to do the math in your head. I have yet to see another watch do this even though I have asked many times :). Here are some must haves….bigger display with minimal borders, thinner than leading watches and 30 day battery life. Godspeed.

I have a Garmin Forerunner 255 (which does everything you requested and much much more). I used to be a Fitbit guy, and the sleep tracking and data is 10x better than Fitbit, with no subscription. The battery life is about 20 days. The Forerunner 255 can be found on Amazon right now for $250. Mind you, I also used to own an Apple Watch. Garmin is the best, and second place isn't close.

Same here. It's the best smart watch I've had.

I find Garmin's sleep tracking on my forerunner 255 quite good. I have no idea how it compares to an Apple Watch though.

And that's the fancy screen, gimmick edition garmin watch - the normal MIP display garmin watches (even an old, midrange Forerunner 255) will easily get a couple of weeks of battery life, more for the higher end ones. OLED is just the wrong screen tech for these devices, never made any sense to me given how little I care about graphics and how little time I spend reading the display.

The problem with Garmin is that they obsessively fragment/segment/differentiate their market/products. It's infuriating that such an expensive watch will be unable to do some basic feature because they want to sell a "golf" version of the watch or a "sailing" version and so on. They'll also release some feature that clearly is possible to implement on even current products elsewhere in the lineup - and isn't even really implemented on the watch at all but just some processing done on their cloud. But you don't get the feature, even if you bought a current model elsewhere in the lineup, because only the new watches get it. With increased competition, supply chain issues, and consumer spending tightening it's been amusing to see Garmin suddenly drop much of that; the Vivoactive 4 and Forerunner 255 are absent most of their typical segmentation crap. The Forerunner 255 is a running watch that supports cycling power meters, for example, which had been a feature that had been limited to their absurdly expensive, huge, gaudy-looking "Fenix" watches.