Solo Hour - Cleanest Minimal Analog Watch Face
· vV4
About
Presenting the cleanest watch face possible.
A simple, stylish and minimal analog watch face: one hand, one number, that's it.
A watch face which truly functions as a real watch, but with it's own digital twist and style language - minimal, clear and readable.
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Solo Hour is a clean, stylish and elegant analog face for Garmin watches, AMOLED and MIP. It replaces the hour hand with the hour itself: a single numeral floating at the edge of a completely blank dial, exactly where the hour hand's tip would point, moving around the dial as the day passes. One slender minute hand. Nothing else to read, because nothing else is there.
I literally dreamt the base design of this watch face (hour numeral and the hand) and drew it on paper the next day, and then the iterations followed.
Designed with love considering only following values - Neat, Clean, Minimal and Functional.
Solo Hour reads like a single-hand watch on your wrist: the floating hour numeral sits exactly where the tip of a lone hour hand would be, in the spirit of slow watch design, where one glance tells you the hour and how far into it you are.
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⭐ NO clutter, NO logo
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What's left is built with care:
- Hour numeral is never upside down. And getting it's positioning right was no walk in the park either.
- With white dial, the minute hand carries a subtle drop shadow that makes it feel machined rather than drawn.
- The hand steps once a minute like a railway clock instead of drifting.
- That second dot smooth animation was achieved after a lot of tinkering.
- AOD (Always-on Display) AMOLED burn in protection is baked in to protect your precious Garmin watch display.
- On a MIP screen the dial never dims. Those screens are always on, so the full face stays in front of you all day.
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⭐ WORKS ON
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Venu / Venu 2 / 3 / 4, Venu Sq 2, Venu X1, Forerunner 165 to 970, fenix 5 Plus to 9, epix, Enduro, vivoactive 3 to 6, Instinct AMOLED, MARQ, Descent, Approach S50 / S70, quatix, tactix, D2, and the Legacy Hero and Saga series. 99 models in all, AMOLED and MIP, round and rectangular. (See Compatible Devices for the full list.)
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⭐ SETTINGS
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Available on the watch, or in the Garmin Connect IQ app:
- Dial: White / Black
- Minute marks: Off / All / Top Only
- Date: on/off + position
- Seconds dot: Auto / Tick / Sweep / Off, in the dial's own ink or red
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⭐ FREE TRIAL
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The full face is free to try. When the trial ends, your watch shows a code. Enter it at
https://kzl.io/code
One-time payment. No subscriptions.
KiezelPay handles the payment, with PayPal, Apple Pay or a debit / credit card. This watch face never sees your card. Once paid, it unlocks automatically in 5 to 10 minutes. Refunds within 30 days at https://kiezelpay.com under Need Refund.
My other watch faces:
* Nyxus Pro https://apps.garmin.com/apps/ac05819e-23ec-4df4-87ad-7e6b9c0ce5b0
* Clasio Digital https://apps.garmin.com/apps/a0475ebf-9479-473a-8211-d3e73be491ee
* Stratum Elite Analog https://apps.garmin.com/apps/8a1cc0ff-6518-45be-adc4-8cd454befa07
* Digital Coach Pro https://apps.garmin.com/apps/910b3635-e3ca-42fa-93eb-557aed246508
* The Chronicle https://apps.garmin.com/apps/85555df1-881b-4fcc-9cf9-a600843597a8
What's new
V4
- Now on fenix 9 and fenix 9 Pro, every size including the 51 mm.
- New Seconds dot setting: Auto, Tick, Sweep or Off. Sweep is the smooth one and it is the one that costs battery, so Auto picks Tick on MIP screens and Sweep on AMOLED.
V3.1
- MIP screens will no longer dim when you lower your wrist.
- Customize your dial with different minute markers, or show your heart rate with a red icon instead of the date.
- On-device settings available
- Available on 48 more Garmin models
A free trial is available.
If Solo Hour has earned a spot on your wrist, a short review here goes a long way.
Your watch shows a code, you enter it at
https://kzl.io/code
Make the payment, and the watch face unlocks automatically in 5 to 10 minutes.
No extra card fees will be applied. Pay with Paypal, Apple Pay or a debit / credit card.
If you are running into problems or bugs, please contact me via "Contact Developer" or "Report a Problem" option before writing a bad review, and I will fix them immediately.
Thank you to everyone who writes in with these requests.