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Fossil Hybrid Smartwatch:

The Fossil Hybrid Smartwatch tracks your activity, sleep, and buzzes notifications from your phone, and the customizable pushers let you control your music or check the date. The battery lasts for up to a year, and best of all, it’s a damn sharp-looking watch for under $200.

Skagen Holst:

Skagen’s made its mark on the affordable quartz watches segment by keeping things simple and thin. The Holst has a titanium case that’s a little thicker than Skagen’s usual at 9mm — but the comapany’s done a good job keeping the dial clean and minimalist despite its extra functionality, which includes sleep and fitness tracking.

Withings Steel HR Sport:

Withings has been perfecting its unique hybrid look — metallic stick hands, quiet digital readout window, classic-style bezel — since 2014. The new Steel HR Sport has a heart rate monitor, multi-sport tracking, GPS and VO2 assessment, and it’s available in both black or white dials with loads of different strap options.

Garmin Vivomove HR:

A common problem with the hybrid smartwatch: where to put the smarts? Garmin’s cracked the code with the Vivomove HR: hide it in plain sight. It has real hands, a hidden display, and a touchscreen, and tracks sleep, fitness, and stress levels, plus heart rate, and more.

Mondaine Helvetica 1 Regular Hybrid Smartwatch:

Just like the Alpina and the Frederique Constant watches, Mondaine’s hybrid smartwatch was developed by the Swiss company Manufacture Modules Technologies. It uses an app to track sleep and steps, it’s the cheapest of the three, and has Mondaine’s classic minimalist look — the utility of this hybrid smartwatch might just be the design-lover’s dream. What’s so “regular” about it? The font, which is a shift from the first edition’s “bold” typeface.

Kronaby Sekel 41mm:

Swedish Kronaby has been selling its hybrids since around 2015, and its got the design part nailed: several of its models, including the Sekel, are beautiful. The smart functions have been improving, according to reviewers, and include an app that helps users screen smartphone notifications, control music or a phone camera, and even find their misplaced phone.

Montblanc Summit 2 Black:

Remember what we said about hybrid smartwatches using traditional timekeeping? Throw that out the window for Montblanc’s Summit 2 Black. It has a full-on OLED dial and runs a Google OS. But the maker of high-end watches (not to mention pens) does the smartwatch with such a straight face that you could almost mistake it for a mechanical watch: the case, crowns, pushers, and strap all scream “traditional.” Which is, for some, worth its $1,000 price tag.

Alpina AlpinerX:

Like Montblanc, Alpina has embraced smart technology. The AlpinerX, which debuted at Baselworld 2018, fearures a light fiberglass case, a rubber strap, and an aggressively styled dial that combines a digital readout with analog hands. The 2019 version is inspired by the most popular versions of the customizable watch, and has the same set of features and an updated smartphone app.

Frederique Constant Hybrid Manufacture:

Want a smartwatch with Swiss-made elegance (and a Swiss-made price tag)? This is your watch. Well, mostly. The decision to slap “HYBRID” in futuristic font on the dial might not fit everyone’s style. But then, the silver guillochet dial and classic Frederique Constant case shape do pair nicely with smartphone functionality. And yes, its movement is both mechanical (an automatic with 42-hour power reserve) and electronic.