UNA Watch – A Repairable GPS Watch

Scottish project aimed to make a more sustainable sports watch:

UNA Watch is the world’s first fully modular & repairable GPS sports watch built to last.

The watch can be pre-ordered on Kickstarter for under $300 – get yours before the tariffs hit.

The modular watch will allow you to customize various hardware elements and more so promises to let you replace old and outdated pieces like the battery to extend the life of your product. And yes, it will offer an app and allow syncing to Strava – the most important feature.

As modular tech by a start up goes, I don’t hate the look of this product. Their website misses some key pieces of information on the product, but their Kickstarter page lists some of them.

• Charges directly via a standard USB-C cable – which is nice.
• Promises 20hrs of GPS tracking – which is not good enough for ultras, but should work for most other activities.
• Can’t find any mentions of a total weight of the product – which is a bummer.

They aim to ship the product in August of 2025 and their Kickstarter has raised almost $280,000 already, off a goal of $13,000.

I wonder how a project like this will be affected by Trump’s stupid and needless trade wars. I remember Panic launching the Playdate during COVID and it turned into a logistical and financial nightmare.

The other thing I am curious about is their claim for offering a more sustainable product. I don’t want to slam on their effort, I like and encourage when new ideas and new companies are entering the market, but in order for this product to truly be more sustainable what should the expectation be on the longevity of its parts? All my Suunto watches I, and my family members have owned have lasted for many years are still working. In fact the Suunto 9 Baro I received USED in 2018 is still in used today in my family. That’s a seven year old tech product. So for this modular watch to be more sustainable it would have to last and function and be supported for… much longer than that, doesn’t it?