True Binary
· v1.2
About
A watch face for those who think in ones and zeros.
Most "binary" watches cheat — they display each decimal digit in binary separately (BCD). TrueBinary doesn't. The entire day is divided into 65 536 equal parts and displayed as a single 16-bit binary number, spread across 16 hexagons in a honeycomb grid.
Each hexagon is one bit. Together they count continuously from 0000000000000000 at midnight to 1111111111111111 just before midnight — true binary, no shortcuts.
What each bit represents:
- 2¹⁵ = 12 h (half a day)
- 2¹⁴ = 6 h (quarter day)
- 2¹³ = 3 h
- 2¹² = 1 h 30 min
- 2¹¹ = 45 min
- 2¹⁰ = 22 min 30 s
- 2⁹ = 11 min 15 s
- 2⁸ = 5 min 37.5 s
- 2⁷ = 2 min 48.75 s
- 2⁶ = 1 min 24.4 s
- 2⁵ = 42.2 s
- 2⁴ = 21.1 s
- 2³ = 10.5 s
- 2² = 5.3 s
- 2¹ = 2.6 s
- 2⁰ = 1.3 s
The display also shows:
- Day of year in hexadecimal (e.g. day 100 = 64)
- hh:mm in small text at the bottom (optional, toggle in settings)
Customize the on-color, off-color, date color, and background color in the Garmin Connect app.
A watch face for the mathematically curious — and those who enjoy a challenge at a glance.
What's new
Option to update only every minute. Choose between hexagon and square display.