Count up - what is it for?

[Mr.Blacky]

I can't possible figure out, in what scenario I could use the count up feature. When would I need the ability to start a stopwatch from e.g. 5 minutes on?
Could someone here maybe explain this watch face for me? Very appreciated. 🤗

 

[ranxoren_]

I can't possible figure out, in what scenario I could use the count up feature. When would I need the ability to start a stopwatch from e.g. 5 minutes on?
Could someone here maybe explain this watch face for me? Very appreciated. 🤗

How to Read a Watch Bezel

From simple count-up to count-down, slide-rule, tachymeter, 12-hour or more.

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[jdb8167]

I can't possible figure out, in what scenario I could use the count up feature. When would I need the ability to start a stopwatch from e.g. 5 minutes on?
Could someone here maybe explain this watch face for me? Very appreciated. 🤗

In general you don’t change the bezel location from the default which is aligned with the minute hand. It’s an easy way to see elapsed time when the display is dimmed. Not sure why you would want to set the bezel anywhere but on the minute hand to start. I guess if you realize a minute or two in that you forgot to set it?

 

[JM]

"I must be missing something"
Exactly my thoughts from this video. Count up face seems really stupid to rotate to anything other than the default after pressing the face.

 

[chabig]

Count up is for timing events, like used to be done with analog stopwatches like this:

 

[schlupps]

as a stopwatch, this watchface does something odd.. or wrong for me... so, "i must be missing something" as well! =))

 

[JM]

Count up is for timing events, like used to be done with analog stopwatches like this:

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The watch face is completely useless when you turn the crown. It just adds whatever minutes to the start of the timer.

so if you set it to 10mins, it's starts the stopwatch at 10:00.00.

please explain what good is that?

 

[wilberforce]

The notion is from analog dive watches; the bezel can be used either to show elapsed time (by setting it to start at zero), or to show time remaining (by setting it to start at 60 minus dive duration). This makes it a visual count down: you look and see how far the minute hand has to go until it reaches the red zero marker on the bezel.
If you want to complete a dive in 50 minutes, you rotate the bezel (with the red marker on it) back 10 minutes, thus making it 50 minutes until the minute hand reaches the red zero marker on the bezel, and thus the digital count up starts from 10 minutes instead of zero.
It is like the unidirectional bezel on the Rolex Submariner, where rotation of the bezel can only shorten the dive time, never increase it, for safety. Thus if the bezel is rotated, it starts the count-up from a positive value (in effect artificially increasing the elapsed time and hence decreasing the dive time).
This watch face is not intended to be an efficient way to display timer information (for which a digital timer would obviously be most efficient), it is intended to echo classic analog watch faces and how they were used with a bezel to visually display timer information.

 

[schlupps]

ahh.. thanks a lot for taking the time to explain!!
not sure, if i ever will have a use case, but good to know it is there =)

 

[JM]

The notion is from analog dive watches; the bezel can be used either to show elapsed time (by setting it to start at zero), or to show time remaining (by setting it to start at 60 minus dive duration). This makes it a visual count down: you look and see how far the minute hand has to go until it reaches the red zero marker on the bezel.
If you want to complete a dive in 50 minutes, you rotate the bezel (with the red marker on it) back 10 minutes, thus making it 50 minutes until the minute hand reaches the red zero marker on the bezel, and thus the digital count up starts from 10 minutes instead of zero.
It is like the unidirectional bezel on the Rolex Submariner, where rotation of the bezel can only shorten the dive time, never increase it, for safety. Thus if the bezel is rotated, it starts the count-up from a positive value (in effect artificially increasing the elapsed time and hence decreasing the dive time).
This watch face is not intended to be an efficient way to display timer information (for which a digital timer would obviously be most efficient), it is intended to echo classic analog watch faces and how they were used with a bezel to visually display timer information.View attachment 1726770

Thank you so much <3 Now I can use the watch face understanding how it works!

Maybe you should submit this explanation to Apple so they can add it to the watch face page to explain how to properly use it...... Not that anyone should take the watch diving, haha. Maybe that's why they don't explain it, lol.