COROS has quietly put a second athlete edition of the Pace 4 on sale. It's called the COROS Pace 4 Suguru Osako Edition, it costs $289, and you can buy it right now from COROS direct.
The interesting part isn't the color. It's what COROS has decided an athlete's name is worth in 2026.
The standard COROS Pace 4 has sat at $249 since launch, and our full review of the Pace 4 found it hard to beat on value. The Osako edition costs exactly $40 more, and for that money you get the aluminum-bezel version of the same watch plus a custom design. The sensors, the screen, the battery and the software are identical.
What you actually get for $289
COROS spells out the changes on its own product page, and they are all cosmetic:
- A matte grey-green case with a silver 6000-series aluminum bezel
- A yellow Action button, sitting on the left side of the case
- A special edition silicone band engraved with Osako's mantra, "Now or Never"
- The same 1.2-inch always-on AMOLED touchscreen and mineral glass on top
Everything else carries over from the aluminum Pace 4. That means the built-in mic for voice notes and reminders, up to 41 hours of GPS in All Systems mode, 19 days of daily use, 5 ATM water resistance, and a 41g weight with the silicone band on (33g if you swap to nylon).
For runners, the draw is still the software that comes free with the hardware. Race Predictor, Virtual Pacer, personalized marathon plans and training-load analysis all live in the COROS app, with no subscription attached. That was the argument in our Pace 4 review, and it is the same argument here.
Osako is not a random endorser
Suguru Osako is one of the most recognizable distance runners in Japan. He has broken the Japanese national record more than once, finished sixth in the marathon at the Tokyo Olympics, and ran 2:04:55 at Valencia to set another national mark.
He is also not new to COROS. The first collaboration was the PACE Pro Suguru Osako Edition, announced by COROS on February 20, 2025, sold as a limited edition with two bands in the box. Retailer listings at the time put the run at 10,000 units worldwide, and COROS shipped it in the US only, which is why the r/Coros threads about it fill up with people outside the States asking whether it would ever arrive.
This year's version is a Pace 4 rather than a Pace Pro, which changes the value math. The Pace Pro was the premium model, so paying extra for a signature edition made sense to buyers. Now the signature edition sits on the mid-tier watch, and COROS is asking you to step up from $249 to $289 for the aluminum case and the story behind it.
COROS has turned athlete editions into a price tier
Look at the store page and the pattern is obvious. Alongside the Standard Pace 4 and the aluminum model, COROS sells two athlete editions, and both are $289.
The other one is the Pace 4 Jakob Ingebrigtsen "Fearless" Edition, announced by COROS on May 21, 2026, with gold accents on the bezel and the same $289 price. Between Ingebrigtsen and Osako, the aluminum-bezel Pace 4 is now sold almost entirely through athlete collaborations.
That is a soft price ladder, and it works because nothing about the base model changed. If you want the cheapest way into the Pace 4's feature set, the $249 standard watch still does everything. If you want the nicer case and a story to go with it, you're paying $40, and COROS gives you a choice of which athlete's version of that $40 you'd rather wear.
It is not the first time COROS has done this either. The Pace 4 Black Crystal Edition landed in April as a colorway upgrade with a premium band, and our take then was that it looked like a watch from a higher price tier. The Osako edition follows the same playbook: the case is the product.
What's missing
No new sensors. No new training metrics. No firmware feature that only this watch gets.
The Pace 4's most recent real upgrade arrived in September, when COROS shipped full offline maps to the Pace 4 in beta, with street names, points of interest and topo coverage, unlocked by a 4GB storage requirement. That update applies to every Pace 4, including this one, and it is worth more day to day than a yellow button.
If you're comparing against the competition, the honest read is that $289 puts the Osako edition into the same room as the mid-range Garmin Forerunner line and the Suunto Race line, and the COROS argument remains battery life and no subscription. No heart rate sensor upgrade ships with this edition, so users who care most about optical accuracy should still pair a chest strap. That has been true of the Pace 4 from the beginning.
Bottom Line
The COROS Pace 4 Suguru Osako Edition is a good-looking watch at a fair price, and if you already run in COROS gear and like the grey-green and yellow combination, there's very little to talk you out of it.
Just don't buy it expecting a different watch. The $40 buys aluminum, a colorway and a band that says "Now or Never." The running, the mapping and the 19 days of battery were already there for $249.
Sources: COROS's own product page for the Pace 4 Suguru Osako Edition (price of $289, matte grey-green case, silver 6000-series aluminum bezel, yellow Action button, silicone band engraved "Now or Never", Osako's national records and 2:04:55 Valencia marathon result) and the COROS spec page for the same model (1.2-inch always-on AMOLED, mineral glass, 41g with silicone band and 33g with nylon band, 41 hours of GPS in All Systems mode, 19 days daily use, 5 ATM rating, built-in microphone with voice control in English and Chinese); the COROS store listing for the standard Pace 4 at $249 and for the Jakob Ingebrigtsen "Fearless" edition at $289; COROS's press release dated May 21, 2026 announcing the Ingebrigtsen edition; and COROS's February 20, 2025 announcement of the PACE Pro Suguru Osako Edition (limited edition with two bands; the 10,000-unit figure comes from a retailer listing of that release rather than from COROS, and the US-only availability is visible in the r/Coros discussion thread titled "COROS PACE Pro Suguru Osako Edition (US Only)"). 9to5Google's October 19, 2026 hands-on coverage (author Nicholas Sutrich) independently confirms the $289 price, the 19-day battery figure, the 41-hour GPS claim and the band engraving. No second independent outlet has published a full review of this edition, so the specification details above are attributed to COROS's own product and spec pages rather than to press coverage.
