The OPPO Watch X2 is a premium smartwatch aimed at Android users who want strong performance, reliable health tracking, and battery life that doesn’t demand a nightly charge.
With its sleek, durable design and a suite of advanced fitness tools, it brings features often seen in specialist fitness wearables, while maintaining strong smart features as well.
While it doesn’t introduce anything radically new, anyone who prioritises solid build quality, everyday reliability, and long-lasting battery life will love the Watch X2. It quietly stands out as one of the most well-rounded options in its class.
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Design
The Watch X2 looks and feels like a premium device. At 47mm, it’s a large watch that sits well on medium to larger wrists, and it strikes a very nice balance between looking like a normal watch and a smartwatch. It has a stainless steel frame, a plastic back and a sapphire crystal front and it looks brilliant. It’s also nice and light, weighing just under 50g.
On the right side, there’s a rotating crown which is rotated for scrolling and pressed for quick access to apps. It rotates smoothly and it’s satisfying to use, giving you a fast way to navigate the watch without relying solely on the touch screen. Below that, there’s a secondary button that is nicely indented into the frame, helping portray that premium look and feel. This button is used for other things like going back to the home screen.
But it’s not just classy looking, it’s also incredibly durable and tough. It’s MIL-STD-810H compliant, which is a military-grade durability standard that means it’s resistant to shocks, vibration, temperature changes and also humidity, and it also has an IP68 resistance rating meaning it's completely dust and waterproof. And to top it off it also has 5ATM water resistance, making it suitable for swimming in water up to 50m deep.
Display
It boasts a 1.5-inch LTPO AMOLED screen that can get impressively bright, with a peak brightness of 2200 nits, and delivers crisp visuals, with its 466×466 resolution. You can easily see the screen and smaller details in direct sunlight.
It has adaptive refresh rate technology built-in which allows it to drop the refresh rate to as low as 1Hz which improves power efficiency.
The display is very responsive, using the touch controls to navigate the watch is simple and easy, which is great as it can be a bit cumbersome on some smartwatches.
Performance & Software
The Watch X2 utilises dual-chip architecture, which combines the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 with a secondary low-power MCU . This setup means the watch can shift between performance and efficiency modes, depending on how you’re using it.
When you’re actively engaging with apps, navigation is smooth and responsive powered by that main W5 chip, when idle, the low-power chip keeps background tasks running without burning through your battery. It’s a smart power saving feature that allows the Watch X2 to last for quite a long time.
It utilises the Wear OS operating system, which means you get full access to Google’s ecosystem, including Google Assistant, Google Maps, Wallet, and a range of apps from the Play Store. Anyone who’s used an Android smartwatch before will feel right at home here.
You can customise the watch to your liking via a variety of configurable watch faces that allow you to create your own shortcuts. For example, I added Spotify and my Alarm to my home screen to give me quick access to them without having to scroll through all of the apps. It’s intuitive and easy to do.
Bluetooth call handling and notification delivery work as expected, and the voice command integration is quick and accurate in most scenarios. However, the watch lacks eSIM support, so it doesn’t offer standalone cellular functionality.
It’s also important to know that while technically compatible with iPhones, functionality is extremely limited; this is a smartwatch designed first and foremost for Android users.
Health & Fitness Tracking
OPPO has equipped the Watch X2 with a lot of health sensors, covering ECG, SpO₂, heart rate, wrist temperature, heart rate variability and sleep tracking. While this isn’t a standout array of health features, most smart watches offer versions of these, OPPO has introduced something that I found very helpful and insightful: the 60-second health check. This provides a full readout of your key health metrics, heart rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature and more, in just one minute. It's a quick, time-efficient feature that makes regular check-ins easy to incorporate into your day.
Unfortunately, I’m not a doctor so I can’t speak for the accuracy of these checks, but it’s a nice way to get a quick glimpse of health measurements in an easy to understand package. Once the check is done, you can see the results either on the watch or on the OHealth app on a connected phone.
The X2 supports over 100 workout modes, with enhanced tracking for 11 key activities. I used it for running and walking and it worked well. It recognised when I was on a walk and prompted me to start the tracking, and it even recognised when I was on a treadmill which some watches have struggled with in the past.
After exercising, using running as an example, you get a breakdown of different basic statistics like distance, step count and how long it took, but it goes quite a bit further than that, also measuring stride balance, vertical oscillation and ground contact time, things usually reserved for more fitness oriented smart watches. Its a very strong array of tracking features.
Smart Features
Smart functionality is relatively standard, if you’ve used a smartwatch before there isn’t really anything new here. It delivers notifications, handles calls over Bluetooth with clarity, allows you to access smart home features and integrates smoothly with Google Maps, Assistant, Wallet, and the rest of Google’s app suite, all pretty standard stuff. Of course you can control music, check the weather, set alarms or timers as well, and use the rotating crown for quick navigation through menus. There’s no eSIM option though so cellular functionality is dependent on your phone.
Battery Life
The X2 has a 648 mAh battery that, combined with the dual-chip setup, delivers decent battery capabilities.
In Smart Mode, which enables all features including notifications, continuous heart rate monitoring and regular GPS use, OPPO claims it will last around three days with heavy usage, (GPS and the display always on) and five days with normal usage. From my tests I found it was just under three days with normal usage. It’s not quite as good as what OPPO claims, but it's still pretty good for a watch with this many features.
If you need more battery, there’s Power Saver Mode which limits some features, turning off watch faces that aren’t compatible with this mode, making some apps and tiles unavailable, turning voice calling off and changing the size of the font, while keeping basic tracking and notifications on. This allows the watch to last significantly longer, close to 16 days. I didn’t use this too much as I felt it takes away from the whole point of having a smart watch, but if you need more power and just basic features, like telling the time, it’s a nice option to have.
Charging is fast, using OPPO’s proprietary VOOC charging system. A 10-minute charge provides enough juice for around 24 hours of typical use, with a full charge taking roughly 40 minutes. Frustratingly, the charger uses a USB-A port and it’s non-reversible meaning you need to align it in the correct orientation each time which does get a bit annoying.
Verdict
The OPPO Watch X2 isn’t groundbreaking, and it doesn’t drastically push the smartwatch category forward, but it doesn’t need to. What it does is deliver a premium, well-built smartwatch that focuses on getting the fundamentals right. It looks great, feels solid, performs well, and lasts a pretty long time.
The health tracking isn’t revolutionary, but it’s detailed and practical, with the 60-second health check being genuinely useful. And while the lack of eSIM and limited iOS compatibility may put off some users, Android owners looking for a reliable, good-looking, feature-rich smartwatch with strong fitness tracking and solid endurance will find a lot to like here.
