New GMT face

Thanks. Obviously the person who designed the “GMT” watch face has never owned a GMT watch or doesn’t understand aviation, marine, space and military run on GMT (or UTC or “Zulu” time)....

I still use my Rolex when I’m flying. (as I notice most commercial pilots still do) I don’t want the battery to die when I’m flying a long international trip.

Apple should change the face name to something else, because it’s NOT a “GMT” (as watch standards go) face. Oh well. It works good when I ride my bike for stats!

Thanks fir clarifying!

No disrespect, but: Meh. Speaking for myself, I don’t believe Apple’s goal here was to turn a 21st century wrist computer into a lifelike simulation of a 60-plus-year-old Swiss analog GMT watch design. This is a new digital platform with a new kind of interface that allow — and require — new paradigms for reading and interaction.

My watches haven’t ever been expensive, but I’ve been wearing them regularly for about 40 years now. (How do you do, fellow kids?) The Apple Watch doesn’t work like any of them; as a result, it’s been more useful in every way.

That said, I’ll bet Apple wants feedback from users with specific use cases for wristwatches — but they’re less likely to find it here than in the place they provide for users like us to reach their developers directly. I’d be sure to send this to them at https://apple.com/feedback (if you haven’t already).

Same here. It seems like Apple is trying to reinvent one of the most practical, easy to understand, and established watch faces. The more I use, the more I’ve become confused by it. It’s nothing more than a pretty watch face rather than being a practical tool.

Please help me understand the role of the red hand and how to set it up. I get the bezel. Thanks

I think the outer bezel is 24h. There are 24 increments around the circle. It’s quite minimalist with just a number for current time and an arrow for midnight.

It’s a good point, but several of the analog Apple Watch faces have unhelpful/nonsensical tick marks.

If you tap on the GMT watch face, you can use the crown to set the time zone shown on the outer bezel. (Mine wasn’t set to UTC by default — I had to scroll through and select it.)

However.

It’s not like I’ve seen a ton of analog GMT watches, but the ones I’ve seen had outer bezels labeled in 24-hour time. On the Apple Watch, tho’, that bezel is labeled in 12-hour time — and for me, that makes it significantly less useful. (I need to see local time in 12-hour format and UTC in 23-hour format.) If there’s something I’m missing, I hope someone will let me know.

Default watch face “GMT” is set for 12 hr clock. To change outer dial to read as Military 24 hr clock. Just go to Apple Watch on your iPhone and go to Clock and there change to 24 hr clock and then outer dial will remain as a 12 hr clock but the outer dial will now show as a 24 hr Military clock view. Reverse back To 12 hr for all other face clock views

Of course this works, but it’s only useful advice if you want to show 24-hour time on every one of your digital faces (and see your 7 p.m. appointments listed as 19:00, for example, in Calendar complications). If you swipe back and forth between watch faces frequently, it’s obviously too cumbersome to pull out your phone and adjust the Watch app’s Clock settings when you need to use a different face.

(I’d looked forward to the GMT face, assuming it would work like … well, almost any watch you’d find by googling “GMT bezel” — but having use 24-hour time in all contexts on all my faces is a deal-breaker for me, personally.)

Another related bug is that the arrow of the outer ring changes so that it is not centralised when chosing the time zone. Compare the two images. Anyone else experiencing the same flaw or know hot it may be fixed?

Happy to help! Indeed it is interesting to note that the dark and light areas of the bezel are nearly equal now for the various time zones as today is the fall equinox. It will be interesting to see it shift and we head into winter.

On my Rolex GMT Master II, the GMT hand is pointed to GMT while the hour and minute hands are my local time. I use GMT for my flying job. I don’t get how to point the red “GMT” hand to “GMT”. (For people who don’t use it it probably doesn’t matter, for those of us who use it for a living, it just makes 1 less calculation I have to do) :)

whats the point of having the GMT hand if I can’t point it to GMT?

My GMT master’s GMT hand is always pointed at GMT - the 24 hour hand is supposed to be on 22:26 note the Rolex. The Apple Watch “24 hour GMT” hand you’ll notice is NOT at 22:26. The local time is 1726 CDT (MSP).

Am I missing something or what? (I also have an Omega watch which shows GMT the same as EVERY other aviator watch I know of ie Breitling, Heuer etc)

The one nice thing is the hour does show up where the red “GMT” hand is pointing so one does know what hour is in the time zone “without thinking much”.

However, I still like the way the analog watch displays it, just have to get familiar with the difference.