Aperture – Digital Skeleton Watch

Aperture is a digital skeleton watch face: the hours and minutes are cut through a lacquer dial, and through the numerals you see the watch’s electronic movement, drawn like a fine mechanical calibre. Black boards with gold traces, a copper coil and the coin cell glow through every digit, each one framed by a polished bevel.

THE TIME
• Big Jost numerals, hours over minutes, cut through black lacquer or white enamel
• One movement lies behind the whole dial: what shows through a digit is what lies under it, so it changes with the time
• A gold seconds track runs round the rim while the screen is awake (or leave it off)
• 12 or 24 hours as your watch is set, with or without the leading zero

YOUR READINGS
• The date above in spaced capitals; three readings below, each with its icon: heart rate, steps and the watch battery by default
• Each one of 36 choices: heart rate, resting heart rate, steps, steps and goal, watch battery, Body Battery, stress, Pulse Ox, respiration, recovery time, training status, VO2 max running or cycling, weekly running or cycling distance, distance, calories, floors, elevation gain, intensity minutes, next sunrise or sunset, sunrise, sunset, next calendar event, altitude, pressure, air or sensor temperature, humidity, chance of precipitation, feels like, UV index, dew point, wind, solar input
• Touch and hold a reading to open the watch’s own app for it (on touchscreen watches)

BUILT FOR AMOLED
• Always-on mode shows only the digits’ thin steel outlines and the date, dimmed and shifting, designed for Garmin’s burn-in rules
• The lacquer’s light is dithered to the screen’s colors, so it stays smooth without banding

WATCHES: 50 round Garmin AMOLED models of the fēnix, epix, MARQ, Forerunner, Venu, vívoactive, Instinct, Approach, D2 and Descent families (all listed on this page). The movement’s metal needs a color AMOLED screen, so MIP watches are not supported.

LANGUAGES: English, Polish, Spanish, German and French.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Data that needs a sensor or feature your watch does not have (for example Pulse Ox or a barometer) shows “–“; weather readings need weather from your phone.
• The watch’s night mode always shows the black lacquer.

PRIVACY: Aperture has no server, collects no data and sends nothing anywhere: everything stays on your watch.

Garmin Fenix 9 · Garmin Fenix 8 · Garmin Fenix E · Garmin Epix Pro · Garmin Epix Gen 2 · Garmin Forerunner 970 · Garmin Forerunner 965 · Garmin Forerunner 570 · Garmin Forerunner 265 · Garmin Forerunner 170 · Garmin Forerunner 165 · Garmin Forerunner 70 · Garmin Venu 4 · Garmin Venu 3 · Garmin Venu 2 · Garmin Vivoactive 6 · Garmin Vivoactive 5 · Garmin Instinct 3 · Garmin Instinct Crossover · Garmin Tactix 8 · Garmin Tactix 7 · Garmin MARQ Gen 2 · Garmin D2 Mach · Garmin D2 Air X · Garmin Descent Mk3 · Garmin Descent G2 · Garmin Approach S70 · Garmin Approach S50

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