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Swatch Time

· vv0.3.3
★★★★★ (3) ↓ 100 downloads 1 Free

About

A minimalist, elegant, typography-focused Garmin Connect IQ watch face that displays the Swatch time (aka Internet time). In Swatch Time (also known as Swatch internet time), the mean solar day is divided into 1,000 equal parts called .beats, meaning each .beat lasts 86.4 seconds (1.440 minutes) in standard time, and an hour lasts for approximately 42 .beats. The time of day always references the amount of time that has passed since midnight (standard time) in Biel, Switzerland. The Garmin Swatch Time watch face displays the time as .beats, 0-999. Optionally, the user may turn on standard time, displayed in smaller font below the decimal time, using on-watch customization settings. The user may also choose between two symbols for the beats: @ (at) or . (dot). The time is specific to the fixed location of Biel, Switerland. Thus the value .500 means noon Biel time, not watch local time. The watch face uses custom fonts. The font presented here is Ubuntu, available from Google Fonts as a True Type font (ttf). It has been converted to a bitmap font (bmp, fnt) using the open source command-line ttf2bmp converter.

What's new

Support for Venu X1.

Details

Compatible with 142 devices
Updated Apr 14, 2026
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