What are 'complications'?

In Horology, a complication refers to any feature in a mechanical timepiece beyond the simple display of hours and minutes. A timepiece indicating only hours and minutes is otherwise known as a simple movement. Common complications in commercial watches are day/date displays, alarms, chronographs (stopwatches), and automatic winding mechanisms.

Of course on an Apple Watch it's all just pretend.

Of course on an Apple Watch it's all just pretend.

😁 nicely put, Csound1!

But Apple managed to make complications complicated, true to the name.

It would have been too easy, if we could add any complication to any watch face, but each watch face has its own list of available complications. So, if we want to use a particular complication, we have to find a watch face that will allow to add this complication. This long list of complications and watch faces is not very user friendly:

https://help.apple.com/watch/#/apd6ce85daf4

You know me, I prefer real things to pretend things, watches have mechanical parts in them, cameras have film. Modern versions eschew parts, and are the worse for it.

But you are right, Apple have in fact followed the old ways and made complications complicated.

watches have mechanical parts in them

And watch faces that remain visible for longer than a few seconds 😁

Indeed, as the age increments so does the time required to read the time 🙂

Hi

Complications enable you to customise the face of Apple Watch with various types of content from built-in apps and third-party apps.

Follow the instructions here:

How to add complications:

• Change the watch face on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
• https://help.apple.com/watch/#/apdb0c5fb937

Complications from built-in apps that are supported for each watch face:

• https://help.apple.com/watch/#/apd6ce85daf4

You're welcome 🙂

Mickey does not bother me, as long as he does not try to talk!