Best smartwatch/tracker for swimming

[pico1]

My Fitbit has died and I’m looking at alternatives as I’m fed up with them only lasting a year or two. I do love the Fitbit app though! Any recommendations for a good device for swimmers? Am not crazy about the Apple Watch as I mainly want a tracker rather than a smartwatch.

Garmin is always the answer!

I'm not that great a swimmer, but have tracked on the odd occasion when I do swim. My watch lets me select either pool swim or open water, presumably it uses GPS to determine length of the latter, and it asks for pool length for the former.

I've just turned on a polls swim (even though I'm on the sofa!) and it has quite a number of fields you can have on display whilst you're actually swimming, including interval time, rest timer, repeat on, int.distance, int.pace, distance, timer, heart rate - current, int.average and int.maximum; and it has a drill log (where you can presumably create workouts and have your watch tell you when to stop/start each bit).

Hope all that makes more sense to you than it does to me!

I just set it going and then looked at all the data it provides on the (free) Garmin Connect app