Honor Watch 6 in for review

Fresh off its unveiling, we’ve got the Honor Watch 6, and it’s about as easy a recommendation as a wearable could be. The watch 6 ships in either Twilight Brown or Shadow Black (our model), and it normally costs €250/£230 (€20/£20 more for the Brown model), but is €170/£150 for the first month – that’s an €80/£80 discount. Gotta love Honor!

In the box, you get the watch, a fluororubber strap with the Black model, a leather one with the Brown model (hence the markup), and a magnetic charger ending on USB-A. Sadly, the charger has two pins that align with the watch, not a universal wireless puck.

So what makes the Honor Watch 6 an easy recommendation? It has a mammoth battery that’s 20mAh shy of 1,000mAh. That’s quite big for a watch. And because it runs Honor’s proprietary MagicOS, it can last for up to a month of typical use!

But the huge battery isn’t impressive in and of itself. It’s the fact that you’d never guess it’s there that’s the impressive bit. On the wrist, the Honor Watch 6 feels every bit the regular smartwatch that it looks like. It’s not heavy – we measured the watch and strap at just under 68g.

Yet, it’s not light and cheap-feeling either. Dare we say, it’s just right! You want a bit of heft in a 46mm watch after all.

The watch is well-made. It feels solid. The front glass looks flush with the case, but there are six slightly elevated index markers on the aluminum bezel, which should protect the glass in a fall.

This is a classic timepiece with twin lugs on both ends, and two buttons on the right side, one of which is a rotating crown.

The screen itself is a circular 1.46-inch 464x464px AMOLED with up to 3,000 nits. Honor’s MagicOS looks just like the smartphone version with lightly transparent elements throughout.

Anyway, that’s all for now. We’ll bring you a review of the Honor Watch 6 eventually, but with a runtime of 35 days, battery testing will take some time!