The multisport GPS watch with heart rate monitoring for planning and tracking your elevation gain.

The Vertical Experience for Multisport

Some call it obsession, we call it dedication. The Suunto Ambit3 Vertical is more than just a multisport GPS watch. Follow the altitude profile of your route while working your way up mountains. Keep track of your total vertical gain from your yearly total to day-by-day ascents. Plan your training with the Suunto Movescount App and let the vibration alerts on the watch guide you during your workouts. Relive and share your experience with the Suunto Movescount App.

Product Highlights

• The GPS watch with advanced training and recovery functions
• Plan and track your elevation gain with ease
• Relive and share your experience

Advanced Training and Recovery Functions

Plan your workouts on the go with Suunto Movescount App and use the watch vibration alerts to help guide you. Additionally, a real-time hill incline percentage is available from the Suunto App Zone. Measure your running power with the optional Stryd Running Powermeter and follow your recovery status with the quick and sleep recovery tests by Firstbeat.

Plan and Track Your Ascent

Create routes in Suunto Movescount with topographic maps and altitude information. See the altitude profile of your route directly from the watch with real-time ascent gain and remaining ascent. A summary of your ascents provides daily totals over 7 days, 30 days and a full year. In addition, you can check your all-time totals to keep yourself motivated. The built-in barometric pressure tracks your ascent with accuracy.

Relive and Share Your Experience

Get notifications of incoming calls and messages on your watch. Track your experience using the Suunto Movescount App and enrich your Move with photos, key metrics and videos. Share your achievements with your friends.

Multisport

• 15h battery with 5 sec-GPS accuracy (1 min-accuracy: 100h)
• Speed, pace, distance
• Altitude (FusedAlti)
• Route navigation and track back
• Compass
• Heart rate while swimming (with Smart Sensor)
• Bike power support (Bluetooth Smart)
• Multiple sports in one log
• Interval workout planner (with Movescount App)
• Activity based recovery time
• Quick recovery and sleep recovery tests (Firstbeat) (with Smart Sensor)
• Movescount training programs on the watch
• Extended feature set through Suunto Apps
• Languages: EN, CS, DA, DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, NO, PL, PT, RU, SV, ZH

Planning and Tracking Elevation Gain

• Route planner with topographic map (in Movescount.com)
• Altitude profile and total ascent visualization (in Movescount.com)
• Route altitude profile on watch
• Vibration alerts on watch
• Real-time hill incline percentage (in Suunto Apps)
• Vertical gain totals per day, week, month and year
• Compatible with Stryd Running Powermeter
• Compatible with Bluetooth Smart power sensors

Relive and Share

• Mobile notifications (with Movescount App)
• Add photos to your Moves in Movescount or in Movescount App
• Create a Suunto Movie with 3D map, key metrics and photos (with Movescount App)
• Relive and share your experience in social media

Note! The Ambit3 watches are Bluetooth Smart compatible, not compatible with ANT+ (e.g. Suunto ANT PODs, Suunto Dual or Suunto ANT belt)

What's in the box?

• Suunto Ambit3 Vertical
• Smart Sensor Heart Rate Module
• Smart Sensor Belt (Size M)
• USB cable
• Quick guide
• Warranty leaflet

Features

• Measurements: 50 x 50 x 15.5 mm (1.97 x 1.97 x 0.61")
• Weight: 74 g (2.61 oz)
• Bezel material: Steel
• Lens material: Mineral crystal
• Case material: Polyamide
• Strap material: Silicone

Technical Specifications

General

• Bezel material: Steel
• Lens material: Mineral crystal
• Case material: Polyamide
• Strap material: Silicone
• Weight: 74 g
• Water resistance: 100 m (according to ISO 6425)
• Battery life in time mode: 14 days
• Battery type: rechargeable lithium-ion
• Firmware upgradable
• Time, date
• Alarm clock: 1 daily alarm
• Dual time
• GPS timekeeping
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Countdown timer
• Stopwatch timer
• Vibration alert
• UI languages: EN, CS, DA, DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, NO, PL, PT, RU, SV, ZH
• Backlight: LED
• Configurable backlight: brightness / mode
• Button lock: customizable
• Invert display
• Display type: matrix
• Display resolution: 128 x 128
• Battery indicator: percentage / icon
• Metric and imperial units

Connectivity

• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone, Android
• Data transfer: Wireless / USB cable
• Watch customization: Wireless / USB cable
• Connectivity (between devices): Bluetooth Smart
• Compatible with Movescount
• Compatible with Suunto Movescount App
• Phone notifications on the watch: with Suunto Movescount App
• Phone as secondary display of watch: with Suunto Movescount App
• Photos with watch data overlays: with Suunto Movescount App
• Suunto Movies: with Suunto Movescount App

Suunto Apps

• Compatible with Suunto Apps
• Max. nr. of apps per sport mode: 5
• Logging of app specific metrics
• Most recommended apps by activity
• Chrono, GPS, HR, weather and altitude data
• Running, cycling, swimming data
• Rich math functions, if/then-logic, sound, backlight, etc.

Compass

• Digital compass
• Tilt compensation: full
• Declination correction
• Direction scale: degrees / mils
• Needle: north indicator
• Compass accuracy: 5°
• Compass resolution: 1°

Physical Specifications

• Operating temperature: -20° C to +60° C (-5° F to +140° F)
• Storage temperature: -30° C to +60° C (-22° F to +140° F)
• Recommended charging temperature: 0° C to +35° C (+32° F to +95° F)

Outdoor Functions

GPS Tracking & Navigation

• Satellite systems: GPS, GLONASS (available in Movescount.com)
• GPS recording rate: Best, Good, OK
• Battery life (GPS active): 10, 15, 100 h
• Coordinate systems: WGS84 Hd.d°
• WGS84 Hd°m' s.s''
• WGS84 Hd°m.m
• UTM
• MGRS
• British (BNG)
• Finnish (ETRS-TM35FIN)
• Finnish (KKJ)
• Irish (IG)
• Swedish (RT90)
• Swiss (CH1903)
• UTM NAD27 - Alaska
• UTM NAD27 - Conus
• UTM NAD83
• New Zealand (NZTM2000)
• Waypoint and visual route navigation
• Max. nr. of Points of Interest (POIs): 250
• Find back
• Track back
• Track logging, viewing and sharing (available in Movescount.com)
• Route points per route / POIs in watch: 1000 / 250
• Route planning with altitude profile (available in Movescount.com)
• Route altitude graph on watch

Altimeter

• Barometric altitude
• GPS altitude
• Combined GPS and barometric altitude (FusedAlti)
• Altitude graph
• Total ascent/descent: air pressure based
• Vertical speed: air pressure based
• Automatic alti/baro profile
• Altitude difference: yes (available as Suunto Apps)
• Log recording rate: 1, 10 s
• Resolution: 1 m
• Range: -500 - 9999 m
• Total ascent summaries on watch

Weather

• Temperature
• Temperature display range: -20° C to +60° C (-4° F to +140° F)
• Tide information
• Temperature resolution: 1°

Training/Sports Functions

Speed And Distance

• GPS Speed and distance: Integrated
• Foot POD support: Bluetooth Smart
• Bike POD support: Bluetooth Smart
• Distance based autolaps
• Log recording rate: 1, 10 s

Heart Rate (Requires A Heart Rate Belt)

• RR interval
• Heart rate in beats per minute
• Heart rate in % of max hr
• Records heart rate in swimming: yes, with Suunto Smart Sensor
• Real-time average and max heart rate
• Heart rate limits
• Heart rate zones (available in Movescount.com)
• EPOC & V02 max values (available in Movescount.com)
• Heart rate graph in real time
• Calories
• Peak Training Effect
• Recovery time
• Real time EPOC: yes (available as Suunto Apps)
• Log recording rate: 1, 10 s

Training, Planning & Analysis

• Chrono
• Laps: > 1000
• Autopause
• Autoscrolling of exercise displays
• Memory left indicator
• Speed and heart rate-based guidance during exercise
• Interval timers
• Workout Planner: with Suunto Movescount App
• Activity based recovery time
• Sleep recovery test (Firstbeat)
• Quick recovery test (Firstbeat)
• Activity monitoring
• Training plans downloadable from Movescount
• Log summary on the watch with lap details
• Customizeable sport modes and displays: 10 modes / 8 displays per mode
• Training analysis (available in Movescount.com)
• Training logbook with story and image support (available in Movescount.com)
• GPS track analysis (available in Movescount.com)
• Compatible with online sports communities: Strava, TrainingPeaks, MapMyFitness and others

Multisports

• Change sport mode during exercise
• Preconfigured multisport modes
• Multisport exercise summary
• Post-analysis of multisport exercise by sport (available in Movescount.com)

Running

• Running pace
• Suunto FusedSpeed
• Running Performance (Firstbeat)
• Average pace in real time
• Running cadence: watch or Foot POD
• Foot POD calibration: manual or GPS
• Average stride length: yes (available as Suunto Apps)
• Ghost Runner: yes (available as Suunto Apps)
• Marathon End-time Estimator: yes (available as Suunto Apps)
• Lap comparisons by kilometer/mile (available in Movescount.com)
• Running power with Stryd sensor

Cycling

• Cycling speed
• Average speed in real time
• Multiple Bike POD support
• Cadence POD Support: Bluetooth Smart
• Hill incline in real time: yes (available as Suunto Apps)
• Bike Power (W), average and maximum (with power sensor): Bluetooth Smart
• Bike Power 3s, 10s, 30s (with power sensor)
• Bike Lap and Lap Maximum Power (with power sensor)
• Power distribution & graphs (available in Movescount.com) (with power sensor)
• Peak Power Curve for peak power outputs (available in Movescount.com) (with power sensor)
• Normalized Power (Suunto Apps / TM by Training Peaks)
• Aerodynamic drag in real time (with power sensor)

Swimming

• Pool swim pace and distance
• Openwater swim pace and distance
• Records heart rate in swimming: yes, with Suunto Smart Sensor
• Swimming time by pool length, lap, total
• Swimming stroke rate, count and type
• Swim styles detection with personal style teaching
• Stroke efficiency (SWOLF)
• Automatic intervals
• Dynamic lap table with stroke, pace and duration (available in Movescount.com)