Quipu Focus, the legible one

The idea

Focus started as a complaint we agreed with. A Quipu user posted his own rearrangement of our flagship - the numbers pulled apart, the clock made huge - because he wanted to read the face at a glance rather than study it. Changing Quipu would have taken that face away from everyone who liked it dense. So we built his arrangement as a face of its own.

The result is the same engine with a different composition. The hour sits above the minute in the middle of the dial, seconds tucked in the divider between them. Three stats run down the left, three down the right. Two goal arcs close the rim, top and bottom. Nothing was thinned out to make room: all six slots draw from the same 49-stat catalogue, and seven elements take their colour separately, exactly like the flagship.

The 49 stats

Six slots, and each one takes any stat in the catalogue - or Empty, if you want the dial quieter. Anything your watch cannot measure reads as a dash instead of a wrong number, and the rest of the face carries on.

Two of the choices are not single stats but whole columns: hourly forecast and daily forecast, three entries deep. Pick one for a slot and it takes over that entire side of the dial - a small forecast panel where three separate readings would otherwise sit.

Two arcs, nine metrics, three styles

Each arc gets its own metric and its own goal: steps, calories, intensity minutes, floors, distance, Body Battery, battery percent, battery days - or daylight, which puts sunrise and sunset at the arc's ends and fills it with how much of the day is left. Leave the goal at 0 and the arc follows your Garmin Connect target. Each arc can be switched off on its own, and the percentages at the ends hidden with it.

Three arc styles: ticks, band and blocks. They change the whole character of the rim without touching anything else.

Color, size, shape

Thirty-one accents, from calm pastels to strong reds, plus a custom hex field that accepts any color of your own. Seven elements take their color independently: the clock, the date and seconds, the text in the centre, the arcs, the marker, the stat values and the stat labels.

Three sizes, where the clock and the stats grow together rather than fighting each other. Labels as a word or as an icon. And the middle slot of each column can be marked in six ways - filled block, filled pill, outlined box, outlined pill, edge marks, or nothing at all - so the stat you care most about stands out. Values auto-fit, so nothing clips or overlaps in any of the 24 languages.

Every setting, explained

Everything lives in the Connect IQ app on your phone: your device, then Watch Faces, then Quipu Focus, then Settings. All of it translated into 24 languages. Tap a group to see its options.

Works on

Focus supports 67 Garmin models across both display types. The full list is on the store page; by family:

The honest fine print

Some stats depend on what your watch itself measures. Sleep score, training status and the next calendar event come from Garmin's Complications service, which the oldest supported models (Venu, Vivoactive 4, Fenix 6 line, Enduro, Descent Mk2) do not have; ascent, descent and pressure need a barometer; solar intensity needs a solar model; the race predictors need a running watch. Anything your watch cannot supply shows a dash rather than a wrong number.

Weather, the forecast and UV need your phone within Bluetooth reach now and then; without it the last known values stay on screen. Sunrise and sunset use your last GPS position. Active calories are our own estimate (total burn minus your resting metabolism) and can differ from Garmin's own widget - a platform limit every Connect IQ face shares, which is why the setting says so out loud. And on MIP panels the softest pastel accents lose some subtlety to the 64-color palette; the stronger accents translate best.