The 7 best Prime Day deals on smartwatches and fitness trackers

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 7 is the best all-around smartwatch on the market and watchOS 9's fall 2022 launch should considerably step up its already-solid fitness tracking abilities. (credit: Corey Gaskin)

For all the shoddy deals it throws out, Amazon's Prime Day sale can still be a good time to snag a good deal on a worthwhile wearable. We've sifted through the detritus to spotlight the best smartwatch and fitness tracker deals we're currently seeing from the event.

This year the Apple Watch Series 7 hits a record low to headline this list, as does Samsung's Galaxy Watch 4. We've called these two the best all-around smartwatches for iPhone and Android, respectively, in our guide to the best smartwatches.

If you're more serious about fitness tracking than smartwatch capabilities, there are also a number of deals on Garmin watches we like, including models in the Forerunner, Fenix, and Vivoactive lineups. All of our picks below have solid hardware foundations in terms of health sensors—all but one will soon be picks in our forthcoming guide to the best fitness trackers—and their differences are mostly in the depth of activity-specific tools and metrics they offer. Below we break down which Garmin watch may be best for you, alongside the rest of our shortlist of top wearable deals.

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