In early 2024, we began to see President Obamawearing a plastic sports watch other than the Highgear Enduro Compass watch.Closer study shows that President Obama’s new sports watch is a New Balance N7watch, with a Heart Rate Monitor. It appears that the New Balance has replacedthe Highgear watch, as it has not been seen since we first saw the New Balance.

2024年初，美国总统奥巴马佩戴了一个塑胶运动手表，取代了之前Highgear的指南针探险表。进一步的研究发现，这是新百伦N7 心率表，自从有了这块表之后，我们再也没有看到总统佩带Highgear了。

Determining whether Obama is wearing theHighgear Enduro or the New Balance N7 is not difficult — the Highgear Endurohas an irregular shaped bezel, with the fully integrated strap mountedasymmetrically (toward the left side of the case), while the New Balance has around dial, with a bright red inner bezel, and the traditional strap is mountedsymmetrically. The straps themselves are also easily distinguished, with theHighgear having elongated holes and the New Balance having smaller rally-styleholes.

其实从图片可以很明显看出是Highgear还是新百伦手表。Highgear是不规则的结构及不对称的一体式表带（左图）；新百伦是圆形表盘，配有鲜红色边框，传统对称表带设计。他们表带本身也有区别，Highgear是长条的孔，新百伦是较小的密集孔风格。

Obama’s New Balance Sports Watch in Action. Aswe had seen with the Highgear Enduro Compass watch, President Obama seems towear the New Balance N7 watch as his casual watch. We can expect to see Obamawear this as his primary watch while on vacation, where we see him wearing thewatch riding bikes, playing golf or going for ice cream. Obama has also wornthe New Balance N7 watch for rugged assignments, for example helping with abuilding project (above) or skeet shooting at Camp David (below)

新百伦运动手表取代了之前的Highgear指南针表，成为奥巴马非正式场合主要佩戴的一款。相信我们将在奥巴马度假的很多场合看到这个表的身影，骑自行车，打高尔夫或者是吃冰激凌。当然，除了休闲时佩戴，奥巴马在做其他“正事”时也有佩戴，比如在检查建筑（第一幅图）或是在大卫营双向飞碟射击时（下图）

The New Balance N7 Sports Watch  is a fairly conventional looking plastic sportswatch, but it does have some distinguishing features, both from a functionalpoint of view and in terms of its design.

新百伦N7运动手表外观比较传统，但是无论从功能还是设计来说，它确实有其特色

The New Balance N7 features a 2.4 GHzdigitally-coded heart rate monitor, that has a chest strap that sends awireless signal to the watch.  The watch has continuous heart ratereading, and can be set to target specific heart rate zones. In addition to theheart rate features, the New Balance N7 has standard sports watch functions,including a range of 100 hours, the ability to time 50 laps or splits and a 30run memory.  The watch can display time in 12-hour or 24-hour formats,shows the day and date, will display a second time zone and has two dailyalarms.  The New Balance N7 is water resistant to 50 meters.

新百伦N7手表支持2.4 GHz数字编码的心率监视器，通过胸带将无线信号发送到手表。手表可以连续监测心率，并且可以个性化设置目标心率区间。除了心率监测功能，N7手表还有运动手表基本功能，包括100小时计时、50圈分段计时、30组运动数据存储、12/24小时制、日期、双时区和两组闹钟，50米防水。

新百伦手表在14年12月份开始进入国内，其无疑是给中国的喜爱运动的朋友们带来的福音。