Fossil has announced that it will be pulling back from the smartwatch market, effectively making its latest run of watches the last it'll ever release.
Given that those Gen 6 smartwatches arrived back in 2021, this doesn't come as a major surprise, but it still makes for the disappearance of a name that at some points kept Google Wear smartwatches afloat.
However, there's better news for existing Fossil smartwatch owners, the fashion brand has confirmed that it'll continue to release updates for its existing lineup of smartwatches for a number of years.
So, if you already have one on your wrist, you don't need to worry about immediate obsolescence. We don't know whether those updates will be noticeable, or just security changes to keep the watches secure over time, though.
That makes it sound like you won't be able to expect much tech in any of its products moving forward.
While it might not have made any new watches since 2021, there were years, in the time before Google finally rocked up with the Pixel Watch, where it looked like Fossil was the only real hope for Google Wear watches.
Still, those days are now fairly far gone, and you won't find a Fossil model on our list of the best smartwatches on the market right now.
It's never great to see any company pull out of a sector, though – on whatever level, it suggests a source of innovation and competition will now be absent moving forward, after years where Fossil provided both for smartwatch owners and makers alike.
