Suunto 9 Peak

lexterm77

Grade 5 titanium is referred to oxide content must be less than 0.2% and alloys that do not cause you a skin rash like stainless steel with its nickel, it does not mean it is scratch proof. It is medical grade metal with great anti corrosive properties. If you want less scratches you need heat treatment, which would add to a cost but it is doable if you want to wait and pay minimum charge for a batch which is several times the cost of a watch at your local metal heat treatment plant/forge.

lexterm77

@nickk

Because they know you will go trough troubles to get it

Bulkan

@lexterm77 like the DCL than uses Garmin?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@lexterm77 launch times are different per county

lexterm77

@bulkan

Thats not heat treatment thats cheap coating.

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos I think what @lexterm77 is referring to is the same shipping start estimate of June 17, but with no pre-order button in the US or Canada (there’s one in Mexico). Around 7:00 EST there was also “out of stock” shown next to the watch…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@nickk I asked for you guys , and the response was that preorders start later in some countries. I don’t know why.

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Much obliged! While we have your attention… Should we expect snap-to-track feature make it to S7 or S9B? Or will it remain exclusive to Peak?

dulko79

@nickk Thanx for comparison.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@nickk technically it’s portable to the s9b I would assume (remember I don’t work at the watch OS).

I have good faith it will.

Kiriakos Chaldezos

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos we know if there will be suunto peak bigger size?

freeheeler

@dulko79
more than 1.5 years of daily use. not only skitouring and mountain bike, but also some planks on concrete…
I was pretty amazed when I noticed the first signs of wear
sorry for the bad pic quality… still waiting for my pixel

dulko79

@freeheeler Thanks. Looks great, minor scratches. If it was not black, you would not even notice.

herlas

“This forum is temporarily unavailable due to excessive load.” we’re excited about S9P I see

@wakarimasen well ya, Suunto has always overpriced their offerings on the front end. If I’m not mistaken the Suunto 7 was listed at 500 USD and is now 350 and most reviewers pointed out how 500 was way too high. Even now, you can go purchase the watch that this watch is priced equally at (Fenix 6s), with solar charging and a number of other features mind you, for the same price.

And I get it, people will say that people purchasing these watches have different interests. But I wouldn’t price a watch the exact same as a competitor’s if I didn’t want people to compare the two.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@zrumlow do you consider at all where the watch is produced how , company location etc ?

Sure there are many even bad ways to make a product cheap.

In the end, I am one of these people that I suppose raise the price ? Right ?

freeheeler

@zrumlow
you do know that Suunto is not a charity company and the employees have to feed their families, right?

Brad_Olwin

@stefan-kersting @sartoric Agreed!

Brad_Olwin

@surfboomerang said in Suunto 9 Peak:

Ordered the All Black version

wakarimasen

@zrumlow In the end, everyone has their own way of determining if something is worth the money, and no-one can really comment on that. For me, after three days of testing Polar-Garmin-Suunto models for some simple navigation, the Suunto came out on top. That means I’m selling the the other two, and have bought a used S9B a few days ago - simply because I was a little nervous about what the new Peak model would bring, and the fear of missing out! Prior to that, I was about to push the button on a custom S9B at £439, which is a price I’m comfortable with.
With regards to the new watch, I think £519 would be ok for me (if it were not so small, as I simply prefer a larger model), and I would not go for the Titanium version, as the additional price for the material holds no value for me.
A Garmin 6X Pro at £516 is of no interest for two reasons:

my own (wholly unscientific) test that I mentioned earlier
I really dislike the Garmin software environment, as it appears to try to do everything…except what I want it to do.

The price is only one part of the story, and comparing with other models is not always apples for apples.