For the first time, Google is developing its own smartwatch, which is expected to go on sale in 2022.

According to a source familiar with the topic and a fresh story from Insider, Google is finally building its own in-house wearable that will be released in 2022.

When it comes to smartwatches, Google doesn't have a smartwatch of its own, despite the fact that Google has had a wearable platform for Android since 2014.

"Rohan" is being developed by Google's Pixel hardware company, which was purchased by Google for $2.1 billion earlier this year, and is not being developed in tandem with the Fitbit acquisition. The new Google watch, which may or may not be called a "Pixel Watch" by Google, will, according to Insider's claim, serve the same purpose for Android as Google's Pixel phones: to show consumers and hardware partners what Google's software can achieve when given the correct hardware. According to The Verge's source, the device is expected to be more expensive than a Fitbit and compete more directly with the Apple Watch.

A heart rate sensor and step counter will be included in the watch, and Google is also apparently working on integrating Fitbit into Wear OS (codenamed "Nightlight") with the new watch when it goes on sale.

Wear OS 3 is Google's next attempt at reimagining its wearable platform. Wear OS 3 was developed with Samsung as a cooperation, integrating the Tizen platform with Google's own Wear OS. Samsung's Galaxy Watch 4 runs a substantially customized version of Wear OS 3 that excludes most of Google's services and apps in favor of those provided by Samsung.

There was almost a "Pixel Watch" for Google in the past, according to a report in 2019. Rick Osterloh reportedly nixed the idea because the LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style "didn't look like what belonged in the Pixel family," according to an employee who spoke to Insider about it. We didn't like either of them when they first came out.

Although the revelation of a Google-built smartwatch isn't a complete surprise, it isn't entirely unexpected. According to Osterloh, Google's acquisition of Fitbit was still "very early" in the integration process when he told Dieter Bohn of The Verge earlier this year, an in-house Wear OS wearable was already on its way. If Osterloh is correct, "you'll see them [the Fitbit team] construct wearables on Wear OS in the future," he was referring to either the Rohan watch or a future device, but it's not obvious which one.