Watch Faces - we need new

enriqueescoms

I’m not complaining about the watch face designs themselves. There are some I like more than others but, overall, I like and appreciate the design philosophy behind it.

What I do dislike is, in general, how weak the designs of those watch faces look when the AMOLED screen is dimmed. They’re very poor designs.

I’ve noticed this since I got the Races S with an AMOLED screen, and it’s something I’m finding hard to get used to.

mabe2k

@enriqueescoms I absolutely agree. There are a few designs I really like, but the AOD design stops me from using them.

Brad_Olwin

@Tami999 That one sends me into anaphylactic shock! I typically only use a few watchfaces and prefer analog over digital.

Brad_Olwin

@enriqueescoms I think much of this has to do with AMOLED screen burn in.

Jeffrey Tillack

@Lukasz-Domiza hate to say it but as an Apple Watch Ultra 2 user I find the Apple Watch faces awful. I just tend to stay with the Ultra faces as the rest are boring and dull. I find my Race Watch faces extremely useful and aesthetically pleasing. Each to their own I guess.

safari

@Jeffrey-Tillack
I use “monoedge” and “stride” suits for the office, and “athletes” for sports and outdoor activities. No one has replaced them.

Steven Hambleton

@maszop Legibility should be a very high priority unless they think their demographic is mainly 20-30 year olds with great vision?

Steven Hambleton

For the record, I think the Race 2 and Vertical 2 faces are very good, I’d like to see more development in terms of options for those two.

For example being able to configure the Race 2 graph to show us sleep over time, or HRV, or CTL, or cycle through all three if you tap on it.

The same with the Vertical 2, make the bottom complication configurable too!

Oh and larger complication fonts

Manuel Extreme

the watch face I needed

Cyclepunk

@runomatic The Christmas watch faces look like my 7-year-old daughter painted them. 🤮

Horizontal_2

@Manuel-Extreme exactly the look of my watch right now. Same band as well. Haha. Like @Cyclepunk says: it does look like a child’s picture. Still like it. A collegue asked me: do you have painted it yourself?

I do like it

OutdoorMan

@Cyclepunk luckily we can choose - don’t like it, don’t use it
@Manuel-Extreme I am using the same right now

Manuel Extreme

@Horizontal_2 I love it! With the AOD option, it’s a must-have these days

Horizontal_2

@Manuel-Extreme Yeah, the AOD-style is quite nice as well. Whished that for more watch faces. I’d easily trade a 1% per day extra for a better AOD-version. It’s the one you’ll see most of the time. Maybe they could add some contourlines to the default watch face (AOD) of the V2.

Maybe it’s a watch face idea: a coniferous or deciduous watch face

Tomas5

@Cyclepunk it depends on what you expect, if you want to have photorealistic tree with lights emulated by raytracing than yes this is really bad watch face, but i think lot of people like its simpicity, even AOD version is elegant and minimalistic.

I hope infuture suunto would open API for general public to develop own watch faces. It would allow to satisfy everyones needs.

Horizontal_2

@Tomas5 Suunto has released an update for the Race (1) or the Run where you can add a picture as a watch face, right? That’s a start

Tomas5

@Horizontal_2 that can be interesting

GiPFELKiND

@Horizontal_2 only for the RUN at the Moment