Swiss manufacturer's smart health connected watch Review smart health innovation

Smartwatches mainly offer services related to sport and fitness. Therefore, their design is made to make the object practical, and not particularly beautiful or refined. smart health connected watches from the Frédérique Constant brand take the opposite view of this generality by offering real high-quality Swiss models that also include smartwatch functions.

Mark : Frédérique Constant

Category : smart health connected watch

Sign in : Bluetooth

Compatibility : Android and iOS

Price : 995 €

Availability : Available

Tested withc: Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime

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Unboxing of the Frédérique Constant watch

You could imagine it for a product of this type, the packaging is excellent. Resistant and finely finished, the main box contains a box worthy of a watch of such a range. It is very resistant, which will prevent you from damaging the watch if you drop it. Frédérique Constant sits on a small luxurious cushion which perfectly reflects the type of product we are dealing with.

When we take the box out of the main box, we discover at the bottom a rigid card holder which contains the various papers such as the warranty or the product manual. You can also find a certificate of authenticity which makes sure it’s not a forgery. These documents can be removed from the card holder so that it can be used for other purposes. It could be very interesting, but it is really not practical to transport.

The manual will not help you much. He spends more time highlighting the quality of the watch's production than explaining how it works. The explanations provided are extremely limited, and above all do not concern all models.

But above all: nothing about the connection of the device! Not even the name of the application to download! Defending an image is one thing; cut off audiences from any means of enjoying the benefits of their product; it’s another. So we had to search the Internet for the application to use with the watch … Although it is not very complicated, the situation remains ridiculous.

Design and ergonomics of the Frédérique Constant watch

The big strength of Frédérique Constant watches is their design. They have all the aesthetic qualities one would expect from a luxury product. It is a real Swiss watch: neither too wide nor too thick, equipped with a handmade crocodile strap, and a quartz movement. The finish leaves no room for doubt: we are dealing with a luxury product.

In terms of ergonomics, nothing surprising. It is used like any other watch. Its quartz movement ensures an offset of only a handful of seconds per year. The battery that powers it has an autonomy of 2 years.

Interesting information, it is waterproof up to 50 meters. It can therefore be splashed and even submerged without problem, but no question of scuba diving with. Anyway, the leather strap would only appreciate moderately any immersion for a little while. As for the glass, it is resistant and has received a anti-scratch and anti-reflective treatment.

Application of the Frédérique Constant watch

The Motion X app, which is used to operate the smart part of the watch, works primarily on the monitoring of two parameters: the monitoring of steps taken during the day, and that of sleep. When you create your profile, you enter your data like on any other fitness smart health smart health connected object application (age, height, weight, etc.) and you set a step step for each day. The application automatically places the cursor on 10,000 steps per day, which corresponds to WHO recommendations.

When you turn on the app for the first time, it will have to be synchronized with the watch. This is done very easily, just search for a watch via the application (taking care to activate Bluetooth of course) and press the button on the Frédérique Constant for synchronization to be done without worries.

Little more, although the application does not offer to follow a real sporting activity, she offers you via small messages (but no notifications) to do this or that exercise to have a more active lifestyle.

Beyond that, it is very fluid and its design works very good.

Using the Frédérique Constant watch

But what about the smart health connected features of this watch? Besides counting steps and sleep time, what does she do? Well not much. But not sure if this is its use. Indeed, it has no touch screen to manage calls, notifications or apps as it claims to be a true Swiss watch design.

No alert or email is available on the watch. It is only equipped with a small needle on its second dial, which is used to see where you are in your step goal. All the management of the object is done by the application, but there again you will not have much to do except to watch the recordings of your previous days.

Another detail: the watch is not equipped to track your heart rate, therefore difficult to have an effective tracking of your sleep. If you go to bed but cannot fall asleep, she will consider you asleep.

It is partly thanks to the low number of features that Frédérique Constant watches can have 2 years autonomy.

The Frédérique Constant watch against the competition

Frédérique Constant watches are intended for a specific clientele: if you are a lover of beautiful watches and luxurious objects, it is made for you. If you're looking for a smart health connected watch that will allow you to really interact with your smartphone or play sports, go your way. Other watches had tried to bring elegant aesthetics closer to the concept of the smartwatch, like the Huawei Watch for example, but again the difference is between the quality of the finishes and the features offered. Understand that the Huawei Watch offered many more functions, but it did not have a Swiss watch face or a crocodile strap. If for you, watch necessarily rhymes with leather strap and old-fashioned dial, but you want to move more, maybe you will find your account there.

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