Grande Traversee — Race Countdown

The day counts itself down, on your wrist. Set the date of your race once, from your phone. The watch face does the rest: the race logotype at the top, the time inside a crimson band across the screen like a race number, and the number of days left, worked out by the watch every day. WHAT YOU SEE • The race logotype — the real one, drawn as artwork, not typed in a system font • A crimson band across the screen, with the time inside it • A gauge inside that band: how far into your preparation window you are • The date and the days to go, on one line • Active minutes this week, resting heart rate, battery IT DOES NOT EXPIRE The race date is a setting, not a constant. Change it and the face starts again for the next edition — or for a different race entirely. SET IT UP FROM YOUR PHONE Garmin Connect - Connect IQ - Watch Faces - this face - Settings. A watch face has no way to take input on the device itself, so everything is set from the phone or from Garmin Express. Race date, written as YYYY-MM-DD. Slashes and dots work too. Preparation window, in days — 180 by default. That is what the gauge covers. Type a date the face cannot read and it simply says so, rather than showing a number that would be wrong. ON BATTERY Black is a pixel that is off on an AMOLED screen, and the face is black. In always-on mode the filled band becomes two thin rules and the clock steps down a size — fewer lit pixels, for the hours your wrist is down. SUPPORTED WATCHES fenix 6, 7, 8 and fenix E · epix and epix Pro · Enduro, Enduro 2 and 3 · Forerunner 165, 245, 255, 265, 570, 745, 945, 955, 965, 970 · Instinct 2, 2X, 3, E and Crossover · Descent Mk2, Mk2S, Mk3, Mk3i, G1, G2 · D2 Air X15 and D2 Mach 1 Pro · quatix 6 and 6X · tactix 7 and 8 · Venu 3, 3S and 4 · vivoactive 5 and 6. The logotype is embedded at eleven sizes, one per screen class, so it is never rescaled on the fly. On the 1-bit Instinct screens it is reduced to the script alone — the two lines of capitals close up at that size — and the layout starts below the round sub-window, because that sub-window is part of the same screen.

2.0 — The race brand, properly. The face now carries the actual La Grande Traversee logotype, embedded as artwork at eleven sizes — one per screen class — instead of the race name set in a system font. The preparation ring is gone: the time now sits inside a crimson band running across the screen, like a race number, with the preparation gauge along the bottom of that band. The "Title on the face" setting has been removed: the logotype has taken its place. Race date and preparation window are unchanged. Checked in the simulator on eleven screen classes, from 163 to 454 pixels, awake and always-on.