It's currently impossible to provide custom watch faces for the Apple Watch.
This is somewhat infuriating, especially given Apple's default watch face options. They all look nice at a first glance, but all have some small functional detail that really throws me off.
For example, what on earth are the minute/second subdivisions on most of them? It's not seconds, it's not half-seconds! What's up with the "UTC" watchface not being able to act like an actual "UTC watch"? And why is it so hard to get readable second-level precision on any of them? It's the most precise watch I own, but every new year's eve, I'm botching the countdown by having to somewhat eyeball it.
> For example, what on earth are the minute/second subdivisions on most of them?
The "watchy" faces are minutes/seconds and divisions thereof. For example, by default, "Chronograph" is seconds and ¼ seconds, and "Chronograph Pro" is seconds and ½ seconds.
On the GMT face, you can assign UTC to one of the dials, or get a UTC widget that works with any face that supports widgets.
>It's currently impossible to provide custom watch faces for the Apple Watch.
>This is somewhat infuriating, especially given Apple's default watch face options.
Why is this infuriating? It should be expected: it's just like this with all Apple stuff. You use it the way they want you to, or you don't use it at all. If you want something customizable, you don't get an Apple.
Heck, I'd be surprised if any LCD-faced watches allow custom watch faces, but Apple is the last company I'd ever expect this from.
If I find something "infuriating", I'm most likely not going to buy it, unless I don't have much of a choice. "Infuriating" is a strong word.
If something just isn't as good as I'd like it to be, I'd call that "annoying".
I have a mechanical keyboard, and it doesn't tilt quite as much as I'd like. Otherwise, I like it, so I just sat the back of it on some spacers to raise it a bit. It's "slightly annoying", at most, that the keyboard didn't have enough height-adjustment range built-in to avoid this, but I certainly wouldn't call it "infuriating". That would be when the product just breaks irrepairably a day after the warranty ends.
> And why is it so hard to get readable second-level precision on any of them?
It also infuriates me that there is no way to view the current seconds on the iPhone clock. I have the Hodinkee app installed mostly because it has a seconds-precise clock included.
This is somewhat infuriating, especially given Apple's default watch face options. They all look nice at a first glance, but all have some small functional detail that really throws me off.
For example, what on earth are the minute/second subdivisions on most of them? It's not seconds, it's not half-seconds! What's up with the "UTC" watchface not being able to act like an actual "UTC watch"? And why is it so hard to get readable second-level precision on any of them? It's the most precise watch I own, but every new year's eve, I'm botching the countdown by having to somewhat eyeball it.