Quipu Focus - Minimal Watch Face
· v1.0.0
About
Five hundred years ago, the Inca ran an empire without paper. They recorded everything - harvests, census, tribute - in knots tied on cords they carried with them. It was called a quipu: data, worn on the body.
Quipu Focus is the younger sister of our Quipu watch face. It ties fewer knots, but ties them thicker: hour above minute, three stats on the left and three on the right, seconds under the clock, two goal arcs around the rim. Fewer fields, each one far bigger.
[ALL 49 STATS]
Pin any of them to each of the six fields:
1. Activity: steps, distance, calories and active calories, floors up and down, intensity and vigorous minutes, today and this week, weekly run and ride distance, ascent, descent
2. Health and fitness: heart rate, resting heart rate, stress, Body Battery, SpO2, VO2 Max, respiration, recovery time, sleep score, training status, predicted 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon times
3. Weather and sun: temperature with a live condition icon, high and low, forecast for tomorrow, in two and in three days, wind, humidity, UV index, sunrise and sunset, next sun event
4. Watch and world: battery in percent or days, solar intensity, notifications, next calendar event, altitude, pressure, ISO week number, UTC time, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb
Plus two full-column forecasts: hourly and daily, three entries each.
[THE SAME FAMILY AS THE QUIPU FACE]
Quipu, our flagship face, is a dense instrument panel: five slots, a calendar strip and the whole day at once. Focus uses the same engineering and the same depth of settings, but lays them out differently: fewer fields, much bigger numbers, a calmer dial. You choose the composition, not the version.
The Quipu face: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/e4f08276-7c26-46d9-9409-91f945527ab1
[GOAL ARCS]
Give each arc a metric and its own goal: steps, calories, intensity minutes, floors, distance, Body Battery or battery. Leave 0 and Focus follows your Garmin Connect goal. The ninth option is daylight: sunrise and sunset at the arc ends, the fill showing how much of the day is left. Three styles: ticks, band and blocks. The percentages at the ends can be hidden, each arc switched off separately.
[COLOURS, STYLES, SIZES]
31 accents or your own hex code. Seven elements are coloured independently: the clock, the date and seconds, the text in the centre, the arcs, the middle field's highlight, stat values and stat labels.
Three sizes: clock and stats grow together. Labels as a name or an icon, the middle field of a column highlighted in six ways. Values auto-fit, so nothing clips in any language. Accent and arc style can also be changed from the wrist.
[SCREEN, DATE, TIME]
Six date formats, or no date at all. Your own text fits between the hour and the minute: a name, a mantra, a race day. 12- or 24-hour time, seconds off, on wake or always on. Dark background, light on MIP or contours on AMOLED. Always-on in three levels, easy on the screen and the battery. Garmin weather or MET Norway (yr.no).
[HOW FOCUS CAME ABOUT]
This face grew out of a suggestion from one of Quipu's users, who wanted even better legibility. Hence the huge two-line clock and the two columns of stats at the sides: the same set of data at a bigger scale.
That is how we like to work: our faces come from your comments. If something is missing or not working, write to us: [email protected]. We reply fast and fix things in updates. A positive review means a lot. Thank you.
[SETTINGS AND LANGUAGES]
Customise everything in the Garmin Connect IQ app: Device → Watch Faces → Quipu Focus → Settings. The face speaks 24 languages.
[PAYMENT]
Payment is handled entirely by Garmin, in the Garmin Connect IQ app. You pay by card once: no subscription, no recurring charges, no codes and no third-party sites. The purchase is tied to your account rather than to the watch, so you can install the face again on your next device.
Prefer to see all your data at once? Get the Quipu face. All our faces: https://getwatchfaces.com