Watch Faces - we need new
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Iām 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. Theyāre very poor designs.
Iāve noticed this since I got the Races S with an AMOLED screen, and itās something Iām finding hard to get used to.
Suunto 9 Peak Pro (all black version)
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@enriqueescoms I absolutely agree. There are a few designs I really like, but the AOD design stops me from using them.
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@Tami999 That one sends me into anaphylactic shock! I typically only use a few watchfaces and prefer analog over digital.
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@enriqueescoms I think much of this has to do with AMOLED screen burn in.
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@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.
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@Jeffrey-Tillack
I use āmonoedgeā and āstrideā suits for the office, and āathletesā for sports and outdoor activities. No one has replaced them. -
@maszop Legibility should be a very high priority unless they think their demographic is mainly 20-30 year olds with great vision?
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For the record, I think the Race 2 and Vertical 2 faces are very good, Iād 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
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the watch face I needed
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@runomatic The Christmas watch faces look like my 7-year-old daughter painted them.
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Suunto Vertikal
Suunto Race
Suunto Race 2
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@Manuel-Extreme exactly the look of my watch right now. Same band as well. Haha. Like @Cyclepunk says: it does look like a childās picture. Still like it. A collegue asked me: do you have painted it yourself?
I do like it
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@Cyclepunk luckily we can choose - donāt like it, donāt use it
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@Horizontal_2 I love it! With the AOD option, itās a must-have these days
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@Manuel-Extreme Yeah, the AOD-style is quite nice as well. Whished that for more watch faces. Iād easily trade a 1% per day extra for a better AOD-version. Itās the one youāll see most of the time. Maybe they could add some contourlines to the default watch face (AOD) of the V2.
Maybe itās a watch face idea: a coniferous or deciduous watch face
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@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.
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@Tomas5 Suunto has released an update for the Race (1) or the Run where you can add a picture as a watch face, right? Thatās a start
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@Horizontal_2 that can be interesting
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@Horizontal_2 only for the RUN at the Moment
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Just to throw a thought in here, as a (newly minted) Run user: the barometer field needs some help. In Imperial units (which I as American have a love hate relationship with) it shows to the ones place for inHgāliterally useless information because it would be the equivalent of showing only to the hundreds place hPa! And whats worse, the barometer trendline (far more useful, and a staple of suunto watches across decades of product lines) isnāt an option at all, despite showing up in the preview (alongside value, in the same field) for āConcentric Analogā. Not sure if that could be fixed faster since it applies uniformly to all existing watchfaces, but man alive is it annoyingā¦
As for needing new designs, I agree with many on this thread that have pointed out a lot of the designs work quite well, and a lot of it comes down to taste. However, as the OP pointed out, thereās some very minor tweaks that could help tremendously, including functional changes like my above noted barometer problemā¦
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I agree,
we need new watch faces, or the existing ones need to be much more flexible and adaptable. We would need much more variables where you can simply define whether you want something or not, or in a different representation.
