Rally Face

A rally-inspired watch face with two faces in one: digital and analog. Switch between them in the settings — there is no need to install a second face. DIGITAL One dominant time readout with the seconds in rally orange, the date above it, battery and step count below. The layout is measured at runtime, so the time fills the screen on a fenix 7S and on a Forerunner 970 alike, and nothing is clipped by the round edge. ANALOG Tapered hands sized to the screen radius, a marked bezel with longer marks at 12, 3, 6 and 9, and an orange second hand with a counterweight. The hour hand moves smoothly with the minutes, so at 10:59 it reads almost eleven rather than ten. The date sits at 6 o'clock, where only the minute hand crosses it and only briefly. ALWAYS-ON On AMOLED watches the always-on view is deliberately dimmer and sparser. The time drops to the secondary colour, the seconds and the step count disappear, and the analog face keeps only the four major markers and thin outline hands. The whole face shifts position every minute to guard against burn-in. Less light on screen means both less burn-in risk and a longer day on a charge. SETTINGS - Style: digital or analog - Seconds: always, only when the watch is awake, or never Both can be changed on the watch itself, from the watch face menu, as well as from Garmin Connect on your phone. The 12- or 24-hour format follows your watch setting. Rally Face is the companion to Rally Co-Driver, a stage timing app for rally co-drivers, and shares its look. It works entirely on its own and needs neither that app nor a phone.

Settings on the watch itself. Until now, style and seconds could only be changed from Garmin Connect on the phone — selecting the face on the watch offered nothing but Apply. Both settings are now in the watch face menu on the watch, each showing its current value, and a press changes it straight away. Nothing else changed. The face itself is identical to 1.0.0.