Garmin’s first smart ring just surfaced in certification filings

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Garmin has never announced a smart ring. Its regulators keep doing it anyway. A device named CIRQA Smart Ring sat in Indonesia’s certification database in August, ten matching Garmin model numbers cleared Brazil in September, and this week a Garmin A05124 turned up in the UAE with an active approval dated November 3.

Garmin’s own comment count on all of this is zero.

There’s no product page, no press release, no teaser. The only Cirqa hardware anyone can buy today is the band Garmin launched in July, and it’s the closest read going on what a Garmin ring would do.

Garmin CIRQA Smart Band
Screen-free fitness band, no subscription · Heart rate, Pulse Ox, stress and sleep tracking · Up to 10 days of battery
Price: $199.99
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon

The Indonesian filing said the quiet part out loud

Most certification entries hide behind model numbers. Indonesia’s didn’t. On August 12, PT Garmin Indonesia Distribution filed certificate 125338/DJID/2026 for a fitness product with the name written right on it: CIRQA SMART RING. The filing lists Taiwan as the country of origin.

Then the entry vanished from public view.

Filings get pulled for typos all the time, and a name this specific would normally get corrected, not deleted. One row up in the same database sat certificate 125337, covering a Garmin fitness product coded AA5124. Keep that code in mind. One naming note: some coverage spells the line Circa, but the filing and Garmin’s own band both use CIRQA, so that’s the spelling here.

Ten model numbers walked into Brazil together

Brazil’s Anatel issued certificate 04640-26-03330 on September 4 for a Garmin low-power transceiver, and it covers ten models under one approval: A05124 through I05124, plus AA5124. That AA5124 is the same code from the Indonesian batch, with Garmin International named as the manufacturer.

Ten variants of one device is a weird count for a watch and a very normal one for a ring.

That’s why the running theory says the codes map to ring sizes. It’s also pure speculation. The Anatel paperwork never says the words smart ring, and Garmin hasn’t confirmed the codes belong to a ring at all.

Four members of the family, C05124, E05124, G05124 and H05124, were certified in China on September 1 through Garmin’s Taiwanese operation. South Korea’s RRA registry has since logged the same ten-model family, which puts the trail at five countries and counting. The listings also classify the family as low-power Bluetooth, in line with every other smart ring, with no Wi-Fi, cellular or GPS radio anywhere in the paperwork.

The UAE listing is the freshest ink

The newest entry landed November 3 in the UAE’s TDRA database. Registration ER67328/26 lists model A05124 under the marketing name Garmin, filed through local distributor AMIT Retail, and the status reads Active. The product type is as dry as it gets: short range devices, low power devices.

Regulators in the UAE tend to be a late stop on the road to retail.

A device doesn’t usually collect an active approval there unless a launch is somewhere on the calendar.

The band already shows the blueprint

Garmin announced the CIRQA Smart Band on July 21, and it’s been on sale since at $199.99. There’s no screen. The band tracks heart rate, blood oxygen, stress and skin temperature, scores your sleep, runs Body Battery, and lasts up to 10 days between charges, all of it feeding Garmin Connect.

We reviewed the band in August, and its appeal is easy to explain.

Garmin built a health tracker you forget you’re wearing, then charged for it exactly once. A ring is that same idea in a smaller costume.

Two problems stand between the band and a ring, and Garmin has named both itself. At its 2024 Health Summit, Garmin executives said a ring wasn’t coming, pointing at sensor accuracy and battery efficiency in a form factor with almost no room inside it.

February complicates the no. On February 25, Garmin filed a US trademark application for CIRQA, serial number 99670310, on an intent-to-use basis. That’s the filing a company makes when a product is planned but not yet on sale. Companies file defensive trademarks too, sure, but this one landed exactly six months before the Indonesian certificate did.

The subscription math is Garmin’s opening

The field isn’t empty. Oura and Samsung own the shelf space today, and smaller brands keep arriving with clever hardware, like the titanium Rogbid VitalRing we covered this morning. Garmin wouldn’t be first. It would be the one with the training data.

Oura still charges a monthly membership to unlock the full picture from its ring. Samsung doesn’t charge one for the Galaxy Ring, and Garmin has never charged one for Connect’s core data. The band follows that rule to the letter: pay $199.99 once, keep everything.

A Garmin ring at a similar one-time price, feeding the same Connect data as a Fenix or a Forerunner, with no monthly bill attached, walks into the category with its pitch already written.

That’s the opportunity the filings keep pointing at.

Garmin CIRQA Smart Band
Screen-free fitness band, no subscription · Heart rate, Pulse Ox, stress and sleep tracking · Up to 10 days of battery
Price: $199.99
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon

Late 2026, or the big stage in January

Nothing here comes with a date.

The guesses, and they’re guesses, put a launch in late 2026 or on the CES stage in January, because certification trails this long usually end in an announcement.

Until Garmin publishes a product page, the ring exists only as paperwork. It’s very convincing paperwork.

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