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Last week, Suunto's Golf department was bereft of its technical engineers, designers and other R&D staff, at home resting after years of hard work.
Although the Suunto G6 may look like just another watch, it's a watch that includes the following: a speed camera measuring your clubhead speed, a teaching pro assistant measuring your backswing length, a photographer taking pictures of your swing to visualize your tempo and timing, a bookkeeper storing each swing you perform and a screen displaying all of the helpful information you have collected. If this is just a watch then so too is the most accomplished of golf coaches!
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Our R&D team held 135 meetings with Golf Pros, and internal brainstorming sessions, while our engineers built three motion sensors in a 55g light aluminum case. Software programmers created algorithms to analyze golfswings using wrist sensors, put through their paces by test players hitting more than one million balls on ranges and courses to collect golfswing data. Progress from the first prototypes (no screen and two extra batteries) to the finished product required 20 stages of development.
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Summer workers collected golf course data from all over the world, soon to be downloaded from our web pages into the Suunto G6, while designers labored to create the best looking golf watch ever.
Suunto's Golf department consumed slightly over 23,000 cups of coffee during this process.
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Many thanks to all involved and enjoy your well-earned rest!
Now, while production and distribution works on getting the Suunto G6 to your local dealer, why not enjoy a foretaste at www.suunto.com/G6. There, you will find more information on the Suunto G6 in seven languages!
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