For some athletes, there is functional, and then there is functional. The Casios and the Timexes do their job very well, and they do it in their inimitable cheap and cheerful style. What about the seriously rich athlete who can’t be seen with anything that costs two figures? For the Porsche and BMW set waits the $750 Tissot. It looks completely like any cool mechanical sports watches you might have seen by Rolex – with a on the graduated ring around the dial; look closer though, and a watch glass is a touchscreen. At a touch, it turns into a thermometer, a barometer, an altimeter, a compass and perhaps your best friend. It’s Tissot T-Touch Polished Titanium.

Here’s a watch that functionally goes even farther than the Tissot – the Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver With Heart Rate Monitor. Yes, it’s a GPS receiver that’s shaped like a sports watch. For something this small, the GPS accuracy is sensational; and you can take it into the water. It comes with Training Center software and everything you do can be analyzed with Motion Based. It’s pretty cheap at $145, but I would place it above the Tissot in any review of sports watches.