Honor’s Watch 6 Plus is getting a sport-specific special edition in its home country. It’s a little more extreme than Huawei’s Watch GT 6 Pro golf partnership, of course, but if you like going fast, this one’s for you.
The Chinese brand has revealed a Zhang Xue-branded Motorcycle Edition version of its excellent wearable. You might not have heard of Zhang Xue, but that’s what we’re for. The gent in question founded ZXMOTO, a Chinese motorcycle company. One of its most recent outings is its ZXMOTO 820RR (and 820RR-R), a very sexy-looking sports bike.
Watch 6 Plus leans in hard
Presumably you’ll want to have one of Honor’s Watch 6 Plus units on your wrist while twisting down the track on one of these. You don’t need the custom-designed wearable variant, of course, but you’ll lose out on a couple of motorsport-themed functions.
Most are cosmetic. ZXMOTO’s logo replaces the watch’s default boot animation, and there are a few motorcycle engine sound effects included on-device. That’s… fine if you’re just a motorcycle fan, but not functional if you’re a rider.
If you do happen to put tyres to tarmac quite often, there’s a new Motorcycle Sport Mode for tracking what your body is doing when your knee is scraping the road. For road riders, the device also includes an overspeed warning function. That’ll notify you when you’re overdoing it on roads with a speed limit. Presumably, though, its functions are confined to China — at least for now.
The Honor Watch 6 Plus Motorcycle Edition launches in China from 22 July. It’ll cost buyers around R4,000. Purchasing the same device, unbranded, from Honor’s Chinese store will save you about a thousand bucks. But it’ll lose the motorcycle revs and the tracking functions. We know which one we’d pick.
