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Apps GMT watch face.
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can you see the weather too for those cities when you tap the face or just time?
It's unfortunate the bezel isn't rotatable (i know that's software), but that would be another city.Wow. This is an ultimate world clock watch face. You can have in total 6 cities time on one face.
- 4 Complications = 4 Cities
- Current time = 1 City
- GMT Ring = 1 City
I love it 💕
Are you asking how to use a GMT watch?
The face is 12 hours with the hour hand rotating around twice in a day like a normal clock. The thing gray hand is the seconds. The red hand is a 24 hour hand which rotates once per day. A traveler will usually set the main handset (the grey ones) to their local time and then the red to their home time. Additionally, in a traditional GMT you can rotate the bezel to get a third time zone.
The problem is this one is a little hard to read. You would normally expect reference numbers on the GMT bezel. And unless you can rotate the bezel, you're actually missing an available complication.
It‘s simple. This face, excluding 4 complications on corners, will show you 2 time zone.
The default is the upside-down triangle will be at the top, pointing at 12.
With this, the red hand will tell you YOUR local time zone wherever you are. In this case it’s 10:09 and the red hand is pointing at no. 10 on the bezel so it also showing 10:09
Now on regular GMT watch you simply adding another time zone by turning the bezel. If you want it to show the city where it’s 2 hours ahead of you you rotate the bezel 2 times counter clockwise. Likewise if you want it to show 6 hours behind you rotate the bezel 6 times clock wise. Very simple.
(and as a result, rotating the bezel 12 times no matter counter clockwise or clockwise the triangle will point straight down, at 6 hour on the clock, and that will show the time of the place opposite you on the globe. I therefore am always thinking of the bezel as the globe)
Now for Apple Watch it’s even simpler, you don’t have to rotate the bezel, you just rotate the crown and it will show you the city you want to set time to and the software will do all the works for you.
Here it is, showing time 2 hours ahead of you.
See the local time is 8:18 and the red hand pointing at 10 on the bezel so it’s showing 10:18. 2 hours ahead of you.
And the triangle is now 2 times counter clockwise from 12, at number 11 on the clock as it should be.
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I feel like i am still missing something with this face, maybe i am stupid. I thought on a GMT face you rotated the bezel so that the inverted triangle would become the top of the clock in the alternative time zone. So in your example (moving the triangle to 11) would be one house ahead and not two. i realize i am mistaken as Apple didn't screw this up, but thinking about hours between times zones in half-hour increments seems more confusing. I guess i was doing it wrong when i had a automatic GMT watch way back.
My main question about the face is what is Apple doing with the color split on the bezel, and how do you read that? On a normal GMT watch you the two tone is always split 50/50 and never moves. That's not the case here. in your example (moving from the 12 to the 11) i would have expected the color change to be at 8 and 2 (vs. 9 and 3), but its not, its a bit ahead of 8 and its just after 1:30. To use another example, if i set my GTM face to my current time zone, the triangle stays at 12, but the color change is now at 9:30 and 3:30 (i wouldn't have expected it to move from 9/3). I read it has something to do with sunrise / sunset but i can't figure it out.
My main question about the face is what is Apple doing with the color split on the bezel, and how do you read that? On a normal GMT watch you the two tone is always split 50/50 and never moves. That's not the case here. in your example (moving from the 12 to the 11) i would have expected the color change to be at 8 and 2 (vs. 9 and 3), but its not, its a bit ahead of 8 and its just after 1:30. To use another example, if i set my GTM face to my current time zone, the triangle stays at 12, but the color change is now at 9:30 and 3:30 (i wouldn't have expected it to move from 9/3). I read it has something to do with sunrise / sunset but i can't figure it out.
You see this..
1 and 2, so it’s 2 hours ahead. If you count the whole bezel will have 24 so it can show 24 hours time zone, just as the world has.
It should be read as in the photo.
.. of the place that’s 2 hours ahead of you of course.
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Remember the bezel, and the two tone split, is on a 24-hr face, i.e. every mark on the bezel is 1 hour, not 1/2 hr.
The bezel color change is the time of sunrise and sunset, on the 24-hr bezel, for the location identified in the middle of the face, where the inverted triangle is at midnight.
So for the second screenshot in post #8, sunrise at location "TOK" is at about 0520, and sunset at TOK is at about 1740, and red hand shows the current time at TOK as about 1015.
Do not try and relate the change in bezel color to the inner 12-hr clock face. This is your confusion: you are reading the color change at 9:30 and 3:30, but these numbers you are reading off the inner 12-hr clock face, not the 24-hr bezel (which probably shows the color change at about 0700 and 1900).
I still think this face needs reference numbers on the bezel. Maybe just the odd numbers or something. It's kind of hard to read otherwise