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Modello GMT latest update allows to go wild with colour and hands combinations… 👌🏼

This one's been a long time coming, and most of what's in it came directly from your suggestions and feature requests. I've attached a few shots of how it now looks on both MIP and AMOLED devices.

5.0 Highlights:
• ⁠Two new hand styles (Portal Hybrid and Helix Heritage)
• ⁠A new data colour selector: complications can now have their own colour, independent of your accent colour
• ⁠Minimal AOD Mode for AMOLED: strips everything back to just the date
• ⁠Week number support, smarter moon phase and tides calculations, new complications (Wheelchair Pushes, Sleep Score), and a long list of MIP/Solar refinements

Full change-log:
• hands mechanism refactored to support two new hand styles: Portal Hybrid and Helix Heritage
• fixed skeleton hands colour on Instinct 3 + transparency option has been removed on this platform only, as it isn't supported
• new: Minimal AOD Mode toggle: hides every inner metric except the date in AOD mode: AMOLED exclusive feature, ideal for those who value maximum efficiency
• new: data colour selector: configure complication colours independently from your accent colour, available both in the native on-device UI on newer watches and in the Customise menu across all other devices
• added "Wheelchair Pushes" complication (supported devices only)
• added "Sleep Score" complication (supported devices only)
• week number added as an option for the date complication, displayed alongside the date
• fix for rare cases where the week number would display incorrectly
• improved moon phase calculation accuracy
• improved tides calculation accuracy
• more options for 12/6 o'clock hour mark visualisation choose what progress matters most to you
• long-tap the bottom or top hour mark to open its respective data field directly
• customize menu performance and copy improvements
• fixed a rare out-of-memory error in the Customise menu
• further MIP visualisation improvements: the watch face should now feel right at home on MIP/Solar devices

If you already own this watch gace, update yours now for free: grab it from Connect IQ. Modello GMT is paid and actively maintained. A free trial is available. I am a developer of this watch face – AMA.

This has genuinely been a labour of love, and updates like this is why we keep going.
Thanks for being part of it!!!

My car said 44.5°C today. My Fenix 8 Solar is currently cooling off on ice. We’re both not okay 🥲

Good thing these things are so rugged you don’t even have to worry. Back when I had an Apple Watch, it would lose battery twice as fast and overheat on a normal day, let alone in this.

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Experimenting with my Modello GMT’s colour combo this weekend. Wanted to share with you. We have an update coming up later this month, it will allow even more colour combo flexibility, so stay tuned (:

Modello GMT has a free trial available on Connect IQ for your evaluation. I am the developer: AMA. Full version is paid: buy once, own forever.

Almost did 21 hrs, but this felt better then any desert I can imagine… Thanks everyone for your support yesterday!

I have started earlier today and am now at this stage where I cannot think about anything but food. Especially during feeding kids…

No action items, sharing in hope you all keep me accountable 😅

I am the developer behind Helix Heritage. We have received a warm welcome for our recent addition to the family last month: the Helix Heritage watch face.

In this update we have implemented one of the most requested feature: more progress metrics options for 12 and 6 hr marks!

in this update, 1.2:
• configure different progress visualisations for 12-hr and 6-hr marks:
- Body Battery
- Steps
- Intensity Minutes
- Floors climbed
- Stress
- Pulse Ox
- Solar Input (Solar devices exclusive)
- UV index
- Precipitation
- Relative Humidity
- Next Sun Event
• further MIP screens fidelity improvements
• updated pressure trend complication (shoutout Andy for the suggestion!)
• improved Swiss font support on devices that offer it
• squashed some rare crashes
• misc bug fixes and performance improvements

Update yours now ands post a pic of your config 👌🏼

If you don’t own it yet, there is a free trial available on Connect IQ store.

We have refactored Modello GMT a little bit, so should be a even more battery friendly now (:

in this minor update (ver. 4.2)
• updated pressure complication (now featuring trend)
• improved Swiss font support on devices that offer it
• squashed some rare crashes
• misc bug fixes and performance improvements

Update yours and post a pic of your config in the comments! 🙋🏼‍♂️👌🏼

I sometimes do, when the watch is sweaty after a training session. F8 Solar 47mm, my daily driver. Love how it holds up in all conditions.

Looks pretty well! AOD enabled and this watch face amazing in AOD.

I have asked for an advice earlier in this sub. So far having a nice, glass bottle of sparkling water does it for me! Both physically and mentally. Can recommend!

I did my first 7 day streak (fully clean) this week! Feel myself much better, but at the same time I can feel it is just the beginning 🤣😅

Appreciate the support everyone who replied! 🤝🏼
Now, I’ll try to do 21 days…

Fenix Solar, 47mm with OEM Leather strap running Helix Heritage watch face on a white background with Modello GMT hands.

For real though, I was trying to decide which device to bring on vacation... Took one look at Modello GMT watch face through the water and the Tactix Amoled won.

My current config:
accent colour: Arctic Snow 🗻
hands fill colour: Lume Green 🍵
second hand colours Rotten Cherry 🍒

This was a heavily requested feature by the community. So reporting: update 4.1 is out!

• All accent colours are now available for hands fill, every colour in the palette, now yours to put on the hands.
• MIP second hand colours menu refactoring, no more of those rare crashes.
• Bionic font, default on MIP: Outfit was too pixelated on memory-in-pixel screens. Bionic is now the default.
Cleaner, sharper, as it should be.
• MIP shadows: toggle added.
• Feels Like temperature toggle: added. Off by default.
• Units toggle: choose between Follow Device, Metric, or Imperial independently of your watch system setting.
Follow Device set by default.
• Tides and OWM: fixed a rare issue where weather data would not refresh, temperatures would stick to a single incorrect value, and tides data would fail to display when it should.
• Complication position on pixel shift: fixed an issue where complication positions would drift during pixel shift engagement.
• Pressure units setting: added, since Garmin does not expose device pressure unit preference to watch faces.
• Moon phase precision: improved calculation accuracy.
• Epix Pro second hand: fixed a firmware-related issue causing the second hand to lag. If you are still experiencing this, please reach out via the Contact Developer button with your firmware version.

Update yours here: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/be859a36-4aaf-43c2-9412-710a420ee798

Helix Heritage just got an update this morning and I cannot stop switching hands! Genuinely excited.

Version 1.1 ships with three properly adapted hand styles: Portal Hybrid, Modello GMT, and Helix Heritage native: and the key word here is adapted. These are not copy-paste ports from our other faces. Each set was individually crafted to feel at home on Helix Heritage’s dial, and separately tuned for both AMOLED and MIP screens so they look considered on every device.

My favourite AMOLED setup:
Modello GMT hands, Baby Blue, 80% transparency, Night Red second hand, shadows on.

My MIP setup:
Portal hands, Baby Blue, solid, Night Red second hand, shadows on.

What I love about this is that you are not changing the watch face. You are changing the whole mood of the watch face.

Go update your Helix Heritage to the latest version with many fixes and improvements:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/98262324-d435-42fc-aac3-cfa34516676d

Stash Digitale.

Over the past month we’ve spent an unreasonable amount of time refactoring one specific part of the watch face: the hands.

The goal was pretty simple on paper, but difficult in practice: make the hands significantly more customizable, more readable, and more visually refined, while keeping the same efficiency and battery life Portal Hybrid has become known for.

Version 4.0 introduces a completely new hand transparency system, allowing anything from fully filled hands to skeleton-style configurations with multiple transparency levels, all without compromising performance or battery efficiency.

This update also includes:
• all accent colours now available for hand fill
• improved contrast for MIP / Solar devices
• smoother native settings experience
• updated shadows and visual refinements
• new feels like ° temperature and metric system toggles
• multiple bug fixes and data refresh improvements (including Tides complication fix)

Make sure to update your Portal Hybrid: it’s available now: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/0b7cce1f-e530-48cd-b22a-be89873e1a4a

And genuinely, thank you for the support over these past 7 months. We’ve been heavily supporting Portal Hybrid since launch and intend to continue doing so going forward…

P.S. If you enjoy the watch face, please consider leaving a Connect IQ review. It really helps motivate us to continue refining and supporting the project long-term.

There’s something about the imperfect, almost analogue character of the screen on the Fēnix 8 Solar that makes it feel much more like an actual watch rather than just another sports gadget.

Funny enough, the less perfect it is compared to AMOLED, the more timeless it feels on the wrist for me…

I really hope Garmin keeps MIP displays going forward with F9. Posting this with hope that Garmin sees this and considers as another small vote from someone who genuinely enjoys MIP.