The new watch use the new Exynos W930 chipset, which is nearly identical to last year's W920. Both are made on a 5nm process and have dual-core Cortex-A55 processors, but the new chip has a higher 1.4GHz clock speed, which Samsung says makes for an 18% increase in speed. The Watch6 series also bumps the RAM up to 2GB.

On the software side, the Galaxy Watch6 runs Google's Wear OS 4 with Samsung's OneUI 5 on top. The watch generally feels and looks the same as its predecessor, but there are some subtle design tweaks to widgets and there are a few new watch faces.

Samsung brought back the Classic model with a physically rotating bezel but left the Vanilla model looking relatively unchanged. Look a bit closer and you'll notice that the Galaxy Watch6 pushes the bezels further in, making for a slightly bigger display in the same casing.

Speaking technically, we get the Galaxy Watch6 in the same 40mm and 44mm casing options as last year but the bezels shrunk and the respective screen sizes are 1.3-inch and 1.5-inch - 0.1-inch bigger than the Watch5 series. It's a noticeable change when you put last year's watches to this year's.

The Galaxy Watch6 is built with identical materials to its predecessor, which is no bad thing. You get an aluminum casing and sapphire crystal top glass and ceramic on the bottom. This means that it's nearly impossible to scratch or break the watch glass.