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A minimalist driver's watch dial for the wheel, the handlebar, and inside-wrist wear: read time, altitude, and sun position without turning your wrist.
Inspired by the classic driver's watch — dials built so you could read the time without taking your hands off the wheel — Driver Watch strips everything down to a minimalist, high-contrast layout that reads at a glance, not a twist. Big digital time up front, altitude and the next sunrise/sunset alongside it, and a solar compass rose in the corner, all sized and positioned to read instantly in your natural resting wrist position, whether that's on a handlebar, a pole, a wheel — or a rifle grip with the watch on the inside of your wrist.
The compass rose tracks the sun itself rather than a magnetometer: it calculates the sun's real position in the sky right now and marks it on the rose. Line up the real sun with the dot and the top of your watch points true north — no calibration, no arm-waving. The rose stays north-up, like a map: watch faces cannot run the compass sensor on their own.
The sunrise/sunset field auto-switches to whichever is next: RISE before dawn, SET during the day, back to RISE after dusk. Near the horizon, the sun marker lingers a little rather than snapping off, so it reads naturally instead of blinking on and off at an exact instant.
WHY THIS WATCH FACE ASKS FOR GPS LOCATION
It draws a solar compass and sunrise/sunset times, so it needs to know roughly where you are. It never switches the GPS on — it reads the position your watch already has from your last weather update or activity, and caches one coordinate pair on the device so everything keeps working with no signal and no phone. It never sends your location anywhere: no internet access, no companion app, no server, no accounts, no analytics, no ads.
IF YOUR WATCH SHOWS "IQ!" AFTER INSTALLING OR UPDATING
That is the watch's own install step, not the face. Open the watch face list (hold MENU, then Watch Face) and select Driver Watch again — it runs normally from then on.
INSIDE-WRIST WEAR
Plenty of people wear the watch on the inside of the wrist — shooters, military and law enforcement, climbers, anyone who wants the glass out of harm's way. The diagonal layout reads the same way there: with your hand on a grip, a rope, or a bar, the time faces you without rotating your forearm. Set "Worn on" to the wrist you wear it on and the dial lines up; no other change is needed. For tactical use, you get a pure black-and-white, non-reflective face with no glowing colour.
Pure black & white, minimalist by design, built for the memory-in-pixel display. Compatible with Instinct 2, Instinct 2S, Instinct 2X, Instinct E 40 mm and 45 mm, Instinct 3 Solar 45 mm and 50 mm, and Descent G1.
FEATURES
• Minimalist, driver's-watch legibility — read at a glance, no wrist rotation needed
• Reads the same way worn inside the wrist — tactical, shooting and climbing carry
• Oversized digital time, high-contrast for direct sunlight
• Live barometric altitude
• Auto-switching sunrise/sunset — always shows the next event
• Solar compass rose — calculated sun position, no magnetometer, no calibration
• Location from your last weather update or GPS fix, with fallback to the last known position
• Left/right wrist setting, on the watch (Customize) or in the phone app
• One face, works across the MIP Instinct lineup
Sunrise/sunset and the solar compass are approximate and calculated on the watch from a cached position. Do not rely on them as a primary navigation or safety instrument.
Garmin, Instinct, Descent and Connect IQ are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries. This watch face is an independent product, not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Garmin.
Typography derived from Bebas Neue, © 2010 Dharma Type, SIL OFL 1.1. Bebas Neue is a trademark of Dharma Type. Data line on Instinct 2S derived from Roboto Condensed, © 2011 The Roboto Project Authors, SIL OFL 1.1.
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CUSTOMIZE ON THE WATCH
Switch between the left-wrist and the right-wrist layout on the watch itself: open the watch face
list (hold MENU, then Watch Face), select Driver Watch and choose Customize. The setting in the phone
app works as before.
LIGHTER
Driver Watch uses less of the watch's memory, most on the Instinct 2 family.
IF YOUR WATCH SHOWS "IQ!" AFTER THE UPDATE
That is the watch's own install step, not the face. Open the watch face list (hold MENU, then
Watch Face) and select Driver Watch again. It runs normally from then on.