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Luxury Takes Flight with Wrist-worn Precision GPS Mapping

  • Elegantly crafted GPS aviator watch features a scratch-resistant sapphire lens, diamond-like carbon (DLC) titanium finished bezel and interchangeable watchbands Aviation functions include full-color dynamic moving map, GPS navigation, NEXRAD weather display, airport information and automatic flight logging
  • Smart notifications1 help you keep in touch, while sport watch functions offer wrist-based heart rate2, activity profiles, fitness tracking1 and more
  • Dedicated Direct-to and Nearest buttons plus enhanced flight planning capability allow you to easily build/modify flight plans and transfer to the Garmin Pilot™ app
  • Includes baro-adjustable altimeter, compass with HSI, Zulu/UTC time reference, timers/alerts and more
  • Battery life: up to 12 days in smartwatch mode (depending on settings), up to 20 hours in GPS mode or up to 35 hours in UltraTrac™ battery saver mode

Ordinary watches have a movement. Revolutionary watches start a movement. Welcome to the revolution in global flight navigation, sparked by the D2 Charlie aviator watch.

With a rich array of color mapping, weather, waypoint reference and flight logging features, D2 Charlie sets the standard for on-wrist situational reference and backup navigation in your cockpit. You can pan and zoom the watch’s moving map to quickly expand your view of airports, waypoints, terrain, obstacles or weather activity along your route of flight. Wherever you travel, smart notifications1 (emails, text messages, alerts and more) can display on the watch to help you stay in the know while on the go. And between flights, you can use the latest sport watch features — including Elevate™ wrist-based heart rate monitoring¹, daily activity tracking1, training metrics and more — to keep up with your personal fitness goals.

Premium Materials, Elegant Style

Crafted of premium-grade materials and featuring a titanium bezel with diamond-like carbon (DLC) finish, the D2 Charlie aviator watch is available in 2 distinctive versions. One features a vintage-style leather band, and the other sports a deluxe brushed titanium bracelet. Each watch has a bright, high-resolution, full-color Garmin Chroma Display™ with LED backlighting to assure great readability in all lighting conditions. For added scratch resistance, both versions incorporate a high-strength domed sapphire lens. QuickFit™ bands let you reconfigure the watch for any occasion, activity or adventure — no tools required. And you can further customize the look with free watch faces, photos, apps and data fields, available from our Connect IQ™ online store.

Detail-rich Moving Map

In aviation mode, the D2 Charlie watch’s detailed moving map display and extensive databases help you visualize your flight path in relation to nearby navaids, airports, intersections and VFR reference features such as roads, cities, bodies of water and more. Enhanced Direct-to capabilities allow you to add multiple waypoints and fly a Direct-to course to any waypoint in your flight plan. And while in flight, you can view your route on the GPS-referenced dynamic map display — or follow the HSI course needle to your destination. By setting your own waypoints, you can also navigate easily to any location not included in the database. In fact, you can even create Mark on Target waypoints to easily reference — and return to — locations over which you’ve flown. There’s also a dedicated Nearest button on the watch that will locate the closest airport if you need to land quickly for a mechanical issue, weather precaution or passenger emergency.

Weather with Radar Overlay

For at-a-glance updates on the weather for your departure airport, your destination airport or anywhere in between, D2 Charlie works wirelessly with your compatible smartphone to keep you informed. You can access location-based meteorological reports (METARs) and terminal forecast (TAF) information — including winds, visibility, precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure and more. A quick “hot key” shortcut — pressing Direct-to and Down keys — brings up high-resolution radar graphics (NEXRAD), overlaid on the moving map. So, you can easily access the data you need for weather trend awareness and smart preflight decision making.

Flight Logging Is Automatic

With wireless connectivity to your smartphone, the D2 Charlie series can make quick work of flight logging and other record keeping tasks. During takeoff, the watch will detect your aircraft’s change in altitude and automatically initiate the logbook function — recording date, duration, total flight time and route. Then after your flight is complete, it will sync this logbook data via your smartphone to flyGarmin.com and the Garmin Pilot app.

Your Flight Planning Connection

In addition to creating waypoints and routes on your watch, you can easily use Connext® wireless technology to transfer and sync flight plans from your iPad® tablet or other compatible mobile device running our Garmin Pilot app. So, your data entry and planning time are kept to a minimum. The watch can also provide GPS position information to compatible Garmin Pilot-equipped devices. What’s more, you can connect D2 Charlie via a Wi-Fi® network to wirelessly update the free lifetime databases that come with your watch. A compatible ADS-B “In” device, such as our portable GDL® 39 receiver, will further enable the Garmin Pilot app to relay notifications of potential traffic or terrain conflicts — as well as other situational alerts — to your D2 Charlie watch.

Customizable Features

With its customizable data fields, D2 Charlie makes it easy to access the data that’s most important to you — such as current GPS groundspeed, GPS track, distance from waypoints/airports, estimated time en route, bearing, glide ratio and other key flight parameters. A handy altitude alerting feature can be set to notify you when reaching or leaving a preselected altitude. And you can also select a stopwatch function for timing approaches or flight legs. A baro-based O2 Altitude alert feature vibrates to remind you when supplemental oxygen is required at operating altitudes above 12,500’. Plus, various other timer functions with vibrating alerts can be set to let you know when it’s time to switch fuel tanks or perform other time-critical tasks.

Advanced Multisport Features

Beyond its full range of flight-related functions, D2 Charlie also offers a complete feature set of sports/training, fitness and outdoor navigation tools. You can tap into an array of physiological metrics, running dynamics, fitness tracking features and more — so you can monitor your workout stats, measure your progress and help avoid injury. Special preloaded activity profiles are provided for golfing, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing and more. Plus, with the free Garmin Connect™ Mobile app, you can download more than 40,000 golf courses worldwide for precise course data, and use your watch as a digital scorecard. For added health and fitness motivation, also download advanced workouts and training plans to your watch from our Garmin Connect™ online community.

More Ways to Stay Connected

Smart notifications2 through the D2 Charlie watch let you leave your phone in your pocket or flight bag — and still quickly screen phone calls, texts and other messages right on your watch. It also gives you access to automatic uploads and social media sharing via Garmin Connect as well as audio prompts, music controls and more. Also, when wirelessly connected to our VIRB® series of HD action cameras, your D2 Charlie watch has the ability to remotely start/stop video, view elapsed time for active recording, and even capture high-quality still photos — while live video is being recorded. You can even simultaneously control multiple VIRB cameras to capture the action from multiple angles.

1When paired with a compatible smartphone.
2See Garmin.com/ataccuracy

Clock Features

  • Time/dateZulu/UTC, 12/24h, day/date
  • GPS Time Sync
  • Automatic daylight saving time
  • Alarm clock
  • Timer
  • Stopwatch
  • Sunrise/sunset times
  • Face It™ watch face creator

Sensors

  • GPS
  • GLONASS
  • Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
  • Barometric altimeter
  • Compass
  • Accelerometer
  • Thermometer

Daily Smart Features

  • Connectivity: Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® with sapphire editions
  • Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
  • Smart notifications
  • Calendar
  • Weather
  • Music controls
  • Find my Phone feature
  • VIRB® remote
  • Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™, Windows®
  • Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
  • Find My Watch feature

Aviation Features

  • Worldwide airport database(s)
  • Altimeter with adjustable baro setting
  • 3-axis compass with HSI (horizontal situation indicator)
  • Multiple time zones with Zulu/UTC
  • Wirelessly receive flight plans from Garmin Pilot™
  • NEXRAD on moving map
  • Moving Map with aviation airports, navaids, roads, bodies of water and more
  • Waypoint information page
  • Worldwide NAVAID and Intersection database(s)

Activity Tracking Features

  • Step counter
  • Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
  • Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
  • Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
  • Calories burned
  • Floors climbed
  • Distance traveled
  • Intensity minutes
  • TrueUp™
  • Move IQ™

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

  • GPS speed and distance
  • Customizable data pages
  • Advanced workouts
  • Downloadable training plans
  • Auto Pause®
  • Auto scroll
  • Auto Lap®
  • Manual lap
  • Configurable lap alerts
  • Customizable alerts
  • Vibration alerts
  • Audio prompts
  • Finish time
  • Virtual Partner
  • Virtual Racer™
  • Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend)
  • V02 max
  • Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC)
  • Training Effect (aerobic)
  • Training Effect (anaerobic)
  • Course guidance
  • Activity history on watch
  • Segments (Live, Garmin)
  • Customizable activity profiles
  • Touch and/or button lock
  • Hot keys
  • LiveTrack
  • Group LiveTrack
  • Fitness Age (in app)
  • Round-trip course creator (running/cycling)

Heart Rate Features

  • HR zones
  • HR alerts
  • HR calories
  • % HR max
  • % HRR
  • Recovery time
  • Auto max HR
  • 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) *with compatible accessory
  • HR strap compatible (ANT+® and BLE sensors)
  • Records heart rate while swimming (HRM-Tri™ or HRM-Swim™)
  • HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices)

Running Features

  • Preloaded run profiles
  • Running, Indoor Running, Trail Running
  • GPS-based distance, time and pace
  • Running dynamics
  • Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) *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) *with compatible accessory
  • Stride length (real time) *with compatible accessory
  • Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
  • Physiological measurements
  • Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
  • Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) *with compatible accessory
  • Run workouts
  • Race predictor
  • Foot pod capable

Golfing Features

  • Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
  • Yardage to layups/doglegs
  • Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)
  • Digital scorecard
  • Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
  • Garmin AutoShot™
  • Auto CourseView updates
  • Green View with manual pin position
  • Hazards and course targets
  • TruSwing™ compatible
  • Round timer/odometer

Outdoor Recreation Features

  • Preloaded outdoor recreation profiles
  • Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Indoor Rowing, Jumpmaster, Tactical Point-to-point navigation
  • Bread crumb trail in real time
  • Back to start
  • TracBack®
  • UltraTrac™ mode
  • Around Me mode
  • Elevation profile
  • Distance to destination
  • Barometric trend indicator
  • Storm alert
  • Trail run auto climb
  • Vertical speed
  • Total ascent/descent
  • Preloaded topographical maps
  • Future elevation plot
  • Downloadable cartography support
  • Compatible with BaseCamp™
  • GPS coordinates
  • Projected waypoint
  • Sight 'N Go
  • Area calculation(via Connect IQ™)
  • Hunt/fish calendar (via Connect IQ™)
  • Sun and moon information (via Connect IQ™)
  • Dual grid coordinates

Cycling Features

  • Preloaded cycling profiles
  • Biking, Indoor Biking
  • Courses (compete against previous activities)
  • Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
  • Race an activity
  • Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
  • Interval training
  • FTP (Functional Threshold Power) *with compatible accessory
  • Strava features (Beacon, live segments)
  • Garmin Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map)
  • Compatible with Vector™ (power meter)
  • Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters)
  • Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)
  • Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
  • Compatible with Varia™ lights
  • Speed and cadence sensor support (with ANT+® and Bluetooth® sensors)

Swimming Features

  • Preloaded swim profiles
  • Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
  • Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
  • Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
  • Pool swim workouts
  • Swim efficiency (SWOLF)
  • Advanced swim features (time/distance alerts, countdown start, advanced rest timers)
  • Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
  • Heart rate (real-time during rests, interval and sessions stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) *with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™

  • Lens Material: Sapphire crystal
  • Bezel Material: Titanium
  • Case material: fiber-reinforced polymer
  • QuickFit™ watch band compatible: Yes (26 mm)
  • Strap material: Silicone or titanium
  • Physical size: 51 x 51 x 17.5 mm
  • Weight (silicone band): 89 g
  • Weight (metal band): 147 g
  • Water rating: 10 ATM
  • Battery: Rechargeable lithium-ion
  • Display type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
  • Display size: 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
  • Display resolution: 240 x 240 pixels
  • Color display
  • Battery life (smart mode): Up to 12 days
  • Battery life (GPS mode): Up to 20 hours
  • Battery life (UltraTrac™ mode): Up to 35 hours without wrist heart rate
  • Memory/History: 16 GB

  • D2 Charlie aviator watch with titanium band
  • Black silicone watch band
  • Trial subscription of Garmin Pilot™ app
  • Charging/data cable
  • Documentation



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