# The gold is the least of what Huawei announced

Source: https://idevice.com/the-gold-is-the-least-of-what-huawei-announced
Published: 2026-09-02

> An all-ceramic Watch 6 Pro took the headlines. The sensor array reading eleven health metrics at once is the harder thing to build.

Huawei put 18K gold on a smartwatch, and it is the least interesting thing the company announced.

The Watch 6 Pro now comes in a 43mm Ceramic Edition with a nano-tech ceramic case, matching ceramic straps and gold accents, alongside a 46mm Space Edition with a black ceramic bezel. The line starts at £399.99 for the standard Watch 6 and runs to £599.99 for the Pro, which is roughly $540 and $809. Digital Trends has the full lineup.

The sensors are where the watch actually changed. Huawei's upgraded X-Tap array now feeds Health Glance eleven metrics from one reading, spanning cardiovascular, endocrine and respiratory tracking. Huawei made the Watch D3 official the same day, a watch that measures blood pressure with an airbag built into the strap instead of estimating it from an optical sensor.

Health Glance is Huawei's one-touch check, a single press that returns a panel of readings instead of making you open a measurement at a time, and X-Tap is the sensor cluster underneath it. Eleven metrics off one press is a lot to ask of a wrist, and Huawei has not published how it validated any of them, which is the part that would settle whether the number means anything.

The standard Watch 6 comes in 42mm and 46mm, and the small one is the lightest watch Huawei has built, 10.2mm thick and 38 grams. It carries a strap system called EasyCross made for breathability, wrist rotation gestures for moving through menus one-handed, and eSIM.

The cheaper watch is the more interesting one.

The Watch GT 7 starts at £279.99 and the Pro at £379.99, about $377 and $512, and the 46mm model runs up to 21 days on a charge. Huawei built the new tracking around snow: skiing and snowboarding elevation, distance and posture recorded without an active GPS lock, rest time on the lift filtered out of the session, and a map of more than 3,000 resorts. It logs turn radius, turn count and the centrifugal G-force through a sharp curve. Cyclists get gradient called out in real time and a haptic alert before a hard turn.

The FreeBuds Neo round it out at £119.99, about $160, at 4.8 grams a bud, with adaptive noise cancelling rated to cut 30dB and controls that live on the watch rather than the phone.

The launch offers say something about who Huawei thinks is buying. A £50 coupon rides on GT 7 orders placed between September 2 and October 13, another £50 on Watch 6 orders from September 23 to October 26, and £20 on the earbuds in the same window. Discounts that open on the first day are priced in, not markdowns.

Every price above is British. The GT 7 is orderable today through Huawei's own store, Amazon, Argos and Currys, and the Watch 6 and the FreeBuds Neo wait until September 23. Huawei announced no United States launch for any of it.