Held Inuit Heated Glove
Heatable, waterproof winter gloves with 3 possible heating settings.
- A: Fingers and palm
- B: Fingers only
- C: Palm only
- Stretch fabric backhand with leather trim
- Underhand made of goatskin
- Color-fast and sweat-resistant
- Backhand with Thermoplush fleece
- 3M™ Thinsulate™ thermal lining
- SKINFIT® membrane, waterproof/windproof, breathable
- Leather stretch inserts on fingers
- Velcro fastener on wrist and cuff
- NUDUD – special conductive technology for precise operation of smartphones
- Battery and charger included
- Visor wiper
- Certified in accordance with the EN 13594:2015 standard “Protective gloves for motorcyclists”
- Knuckle protection tested (impact test for knuckle protection)
- Knuckle protection with D3O
- Palm protection with SuperFabric® material, lined with Armaprotec
- Hand edge reinforcement
Read on for more details.
Sizing Information
Held gloves are sold in glove sizes rather than the normal “alpha” sizes you are used to in the US. But fear not, we offer a comprehensive guide to choosing a Held glove size for you:
And here is some information about the long term care of Held gloves:
Our Two Cents
The Inuit Heated Gloves from Held, are a waterproof, 3 heat setting, winter touring pair of gloves. Overall construction is a combination of leather and textile, with PRIMALOFT® on the back of the hand, goatskin on the palm, stretch fabric, a colorfast and seat-proof outer shell, a SKINFIT® membrane that is waterproof, windproof and breathable, as well as a 3M™-Thinsulate™ liner.
Looking at protection, these gloves feature D30 knuckle protection in a full size knuckle protector (the D30 makes it comfortable and moldable), an additional piece of D30 on top of the wrist bone, reinforced with SuperFabric®-brand material underlaid with Armaprotec palm protection that is nicely sized, additional reinforcements on the edge of the hand, as well as additional protectors on top of the middle and ring fingers. Overall the Inuit gloves earn a CE 1KP rating.
Looking at comfort and convenience, there are two Velcro adjusters one at the cuff and one at the wrist (the one at the wrist has two anchor points resulting in a better adjustment and an even more secure feeling), there is a visor wiper on the left index finger (I love when gloves feature visor wipers, just such a small thing, but one that is super convenient when you need it, especially useful in a cold weather, touring glove). Both Velcro adjusters feature flaps or added grip prints to make adjusting them or removing them simple even while wearing gloves. There are accordion panels on all four fingers as well as added touchscreen friendly “dots” on the thumb and index finger of the right glove only. In our testing the gloves worked much better than most winter based gloves with both iPhone and Android devices.
Moving on to the heating portion, the gloves feature 3 heat settings, what Held says to be 30C, 50C, and 70C (not sure I believe these temperatures as 70C would be over 150f, but I look at it as a low, medium and high temperature settings.) To me the low setting really isn’t useful as I could barely feel it, so I would see myself primarily using medium and high. At the high setting my hands were plenty warm. The nice thing about these gloves is that they also have three different modes, A mode is fingers only, B mode is palm only and C mode is heating both fingers and palms. Most other heated gloves that I have seen only heat the fingers and don’t allow for any sort of heat mode adjustability. This is nice if you prefer to have one heather and not the other, but I also enjoyed having both my palm and fingers warmed up rather than just my fingers, so nice design choice on Held’s part. The controls are simple and easy to use for both temp and mode settings and are color coded so it’s super easy to know what setting/mode you are in (Held also includes a very simple instruction one pager to help you get started).
Now to point out a few critiques. As is the case with most battery operated, heated gloves you do gain some bulk in the gloves by adding batteries in them, but it seems that with these gloves the batteries are a bit bulkier than most others that we tested. The gloves were still comfortable but be prepared for the added weight and bulk, I feel that Held could have done a better job here in making the batteries more sleek/slim. Next the battery pocket is almost identical in size to the battery packs so it’s a bit tight getting them in there, definitely put the batteries in before you put on the gloves. Next, the cables coming from the gloves have little caps on them to close off the cables when they are not in use. I’m not sure how vital these caps are, but I can tell you that they will very quickly be lost. Lastly, the charging wall adapter that comes with these gloves is simply hilarious. First off, Held is a German company so it ships with a European based wall plug that wont work in the USA and requires an adapter, granted Held includes one but the hilarious part is that the European adapter sticks about 1.5 inches off the wall when plugged in, then you add the USA adapter and the plug literally is 3 inches off the wall (no seriously we measured it). Now the wall charger doesn’t impact glove performance and in no way would make me say not to buy the gloves because of but it’s something to note and something that clearly could have been executed much better.
Overall the Inuit heated gloves from Held are extremely comfortable, warm up quite nicely and offer a great amount of protection short of a racing glove. Personally I love the design, it’s simple and clean but some really nice touches are added with the red accents on the black Held logos, the nice red and gray grip stripes on the wrist adjuster as well as red finger accents and reflective string on the wrist adjuster. If you are looking for a pair of heated winter gloves I highly recommend checking these out. :: Damir 1/25/25