The Hugo Boss Smart Classic is the latest designer smart analogue watch born out of a partnership between luxury watchmaker Movado and tech company HP. While Movado brings the design, HP is powering the smarts so it'll play nice with your smartphone.
Much like the Michael Bastian Titan Juxt, Isaac Mizrahi and Movado Bold Motion hybrid smartwatches, the Smart Classic drops a small digital display inside the watch face to let you view notifications and fitness tracking data.
Priced at $295, it'll cost you the same as a traditional Hugo Boss Chronograph, so if you're already eyeing up a Boss timepiece, you're not paying extra to make it a smarter purchase.
We've seen some great examples of smart analogue watches and some not so good ones, so where does the Hugo Boss Smart Classic fit into that spectrum? We've been wearing it out and about over the last couple of weeks to find out.
Hugo Boss Smart Classic: The app and battery life
There's not a lot going on with the Hugo Boss BOSS Watches app and that's perfectly fine. It replicates the same black and white/silver colour scheme used throughout the watch design and it's very easy to get to grips with.
Along with sections dedicated to notifications and activity tracking, there's also a section that pushes you to the Hugo Boss online store (surprise, surprise), just in case you fancy matching your expensive watch with a similarly pricey shirt. It's also here where you can keep an eye on battery status as well, as you can't view this on the watch display. There are some additional features that are worth exploring in the settings menu like the ability to snooze notifications during a particular period of the day and adjust activity tracking goals.
You won't need to spend much time in here apart from the initial setup because there's very little reason else to go back. The daily, weekly, monthly breakdown of step data is pretty easy to ignore and unless you want to reduce notification support, it'll probably live untouched on your phone's homescreen.
As far as battery life is concerned, the Smart Classic's analogue movements are good to go for some time as it's powered by standard coin cell battery. When you factor in the smartwatch features, I managed to get a solid seven days out of it before it started to flash up a warning that the battery was low. If you don't have full notification support switched on, you can comfortably get four or five days of life more out of it. It's a super snappy charger as well when you do run out of battery.
Hit
- Attractive Hugo Boss watch design
- Solid battery life
- Good notification support
Miss
- Unattractive digital display
- Some syncing issues with fitness data
- No sleep monitoring
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