New GMT face

Your point about not having to think about what the red hand is pointing at is good, and exactly why I am so annoyed by the 120 tick marks for the minute and second hands not corresponding to the 5 minutes/seconds that should be shown between each numeral. In your picture, is the local time 10:23 or 10:24? Need to think and analyze a bit, count the tic marks, divide by 2, lol.

There are lots of use cases for a GMT watch outside aviation. Smart people can disagree, so we’ll have to disagree on whether naming an Apple Watch face “GMT” is an attempt to deceive users into thinking it will give their Apple Watch all the function and features of a Rolex model that costs 30 times the price.

If your Apple Watch wasn’t suitable for your aviation use case before, a new watch face on it probably isn’t going to change that. This is a face that displays the time using a rotating ring that offers a readout similar (but no, not identical) to GMT watches (of which there are many styles and brands).

As it happens, Apple’s GMT face doesn’t suit my use case any better than it sounds like it suits yours. But this thread will become useless — if it hasn’t already — if it’s just filled with people pointing out that Henry Ford still hasn’t given them the faster horse they want.

Yes indeed! It's great this thread has brought out fellow watch aficionados. I was a bit obsessed with Fortis 20 years ago and still have this Official Cosmonauts Automatic that came with a nice leather case with a rubber diving band and a large velcro band for wearing outside a spacesuit (you never know):

It is also just sitting in the safe thanks to Apple Watch 😂

It's tough to separate out the posts in this thread from folks who're having trouble with the GMT face because it isn't working properly (or they don't understand how it's designed it to work) from the posts in this thread from people who just don't like how it's designed to work — or who just would have preferred to see it designed differently.

Unfortunately, until Apple fixes the problem that prevents people from unfollowing threads in these discussions there are those of us who're going to get emails from all of the above.

So, a general reminder: If you just don't like how something Apple did was developed, or wish it had been developed differently, or would have developed it differently if you were the developer, or have an idea that you wish Apple would develop instead, it's more important to post your thoughts to apple.com/feedback/ than to post them here.

If you're only using these user discussions, it's possible but unlikely that it'll reach the people at Apple who'd benefit most from hearing them.

Actually this thread brings up the need fir a suggestion. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is always expressed in 24-hr format. This is true in Han/shortwave radio, military, scientific and other disciplines. I would suggest to the UTC face author that if UTC is selected, it is always displayed in 24-hr format, regardless of the user’s preference. Thanks for reading!

I’m not 100% certain about this - but I think the colors represent night & day. So if you choose the default (pretty!) Watermelon and Navy Blue - the Navy Blue part is night, so if it shows “2” in the blue part it’s 2 AM. There’s even an arrow symbol pointing to midnight!

Thank you

Only some faces have to be reset to 12 he clock. Depends on Face chosen

Digital faces will show in 24-hour time, as will calendar complications that show event times.

That was helpful, thank you. I was overthinking it.

The minute hand on the GMT watch face points to different number from the one in the list.

Forgive my ignorance, but how would I know the minutes passed looking at he watch face?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess I’m not seeing what you’re seeing. It looks to me like the arrow (24/00) and the 7 are in the same alignment in both those screenshots.

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Thank you very much. Much appreciated!