The Top 5 Analog Watchfaces for Your Garmin
Want your Garmin to look like a real watch? Five analog watchfaces for a classic look, from an Italian-styled GMT to Helix Heritage, simply the best-looking of them all.
Make your Garmin look like a real watch
A digital watchface shows everything. An analog one makes your Garmin look like a watch you'd wear with anything. These five give you that classic look, and most of them still show the stats you care about.
5. Modello GMT
An homage to Italian utilitarian watches, built around legibility: a calm, balanced dial that stays readable in any light. The GMT hand lets you track a second time zone, so you can keep home time or a colleague's city on your wrist while you travel.
Install Modello GMT →4. Sectors
The clever one. Sectors has up to six data fields, and they move around the dial so the hands never cover them. Even the tick marks only appear where the hands are. You can recolour almost every element and choose from steps, heart rate, Body Battery, stress, time to recovery, weather and more.
Install Sectors →3. Rondo Analog
The most customisable of the five: 4 hand styles, 7 hour marker styles and 15 colour themes, plus 8 data fields. Long-press any field to jump straight into the matching Garmin app. It's also tuned to keep battery use low.
Install Rondo Analog →2. Hands
One of mine. Hands is minimal and clean: just the hands and the markers you want, both of which you can switch off. Long-press the screen on newer touch watches and a full stats panel slides in, so you get a clean dial and all your data. AMOLED watches get a proper always-on mode.
Install Hands →1. Helix Heritage
Simply the best-looking analog watchface for Garmin. The dial takes its cues from the golden era of mechanical chronographs, with clean lines and restrained geometry, and it comes in several colours. Pair it with a titanium band and it's hard to tell you're wearing a sports watch.
Install Helix Heritage →Which one to pick
Want the purest classic look, go for Helix Heritage. Travel a lot, Modello GMT keeps a second time zone on the dial. Want lots of data without the hands getting in the way, that's Sectors. Love tweaking every detail, Rondo Analog. And if you want a clean dial with your stats one long-press away, try Hands.
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