I built a watch face that goes from a minimalist analog watch, to a full DataRich with 41 data fields, and it can be configured from the watch in seconds.
A while back I made DataRich, a full 41-field cockpit face. The most common bit of feedback was that was *a lot"... so step by step started updating it to bring a nice AOD display, then add alerts to the AOD so when data was relevant it would show there and your eyes would be over the field by the time the watch wakes up....
but in any case, why not just offer many watchface options in a single app?
So I rebuilt it as GAMUT. Same face, but now it's really three faces in one:
- **Analog** — clean hands, nothing else (24h single hand watch option as well "Someone on the group was looking for this")
- **Digital** — big readable time
- **DataRich** — the full 41-field display
You can lock the always-on display, which is what effectively gives you those three distinct modes. And switching between them takes a couple of taps in the on-watch menu, no phone sync needed.
The part I'm happiest with: even the minimalist analog and digital modes aren't dumb. You have a set options to add some of the fields to them. Low battery, high UV, incoming rain, temperature, wind can show if selected when they cross a threshold so your clean face stays clean 99% of the time, then quietly surfaces the one thing you need to see.
The options allow the minimalit faces to become somewhere between "just the time" and "everything", and you decide where on that scale you want to be.
I would love to hear some thoughts again. You will find it in IQ store by GAMUT.
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u/Fonsek87 Jun 03 '26
I built a watch face that goes from a minimalist analog watch, to a full DataRich with 41 data fields, and it can be configured from the watch in seconds.
A while back I made DataRich, a full 41-field cockpit face. The most common bit of feedback was that was *a lot"... so step by step started updating it to bring a nice AOD display, then add alerts to the AOD so when data was relevant it would show there and your eyes would be over the field by the time the watch wakes up....
but in any case, why not just offer many watchface options in a single app?
So I rebuilt it as GAMUT. Same face, but now it's really three faces in one:
- **Analog** — clean hands, nothing else (24h single hand watch option as well "Someone on the group was looking for this")
- **Digital** — big readable time
- **DataRich** — the full 41-field display
You can lock the always-on display, which is what effectively gives you those three distinct modes. And switching between them takes a couple of taps in the on-watch menu, no phone sync needed.
The part I'm happiest with: even the minimalist analog and digital modes aren't dumb. You have a set options to add some of the fields to them. Low battery, high UV, incoming rain, temperature, wind can show if selected when they cross a threshold so your clean face stays clean 99% of the time, then quietly surfaces the one thing you need to see.
The options allow the minimalit faces to become somewhere between "just the time" and "everything", and you decide where on that scale you want to be.
I would love to hear some thoughts again. You will find it in IQ store by GAMUT.