Watch face

Damascus Steel

by Atelier_Dev

Price

$1.99 on Connect IQ

Rating

5.0 on Connect IQ (14 reviews)

Installs

100 installs on Connect IQ

Updated

Updated 2026-10-27

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About this face

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Enjoying this watch face? A quick rating or review helps others find it and keeps the updates coming. Thank you! Something not right on your watch? Contact the developer first — most fixes ship within days. Try it FREE for 48 hours: https://apps.garmin.com/en-GB/apps/5fb51457-8b12-49cd-8994-0dd9888593ef Damascus Steel is built like a forged instrument. Two steel strands are woven around the rim in a damascus twist, and they are not decoration: each one is a goal ring. One strand fills as you walk, the other as you earn active minutes, so a glance at the weave tells you how both goals stand. Where the strands meet at the top and bottom of the dial, a single wavy ribbon tags each one in its own colour. Everything inside the rim sits in the same machined housing: a raised, bevelled bezel around a recessed well finished with fine engine-turned engraving. The date plate, the trend band and all four side panels share that housing. The three gauges across the bottom are the same idea struck as round coins, so the whole dial reads as one piece of hardware rather than a collection of widgets. Set the material in one move. Nine presets recolour the entire face: Damascus Steel, Gold Forge, Gunmetal, Ember, Verdigris, Amethyst, Midnight, Rose Gold and Frost. Every element set to follow the theme moves with it — both strands, the three gauges as a swept metal gradient, the trend line, the side readouts, the sunrise row and the date plate. Any single element can still be given its own colour from forty swatches. The clock is yours too: clean white, a sweep of the theme across the digits, or one chosen colour. Fill the instrument with what you actually track. Two panels on each side: a large single readout above, a combined readout below that stacks two related numbers in one panel. A framed trend band under the clock draws a sparkline over faint hour lines, so you can see at a glance whether you are higher or lower than you were two hours ago. The metric icon and its live value sit on the same rail. Three gauges run across the bottom, and the date plate carries a metric of its own. Every one of those places is a picker into a deep catalogue of health, activity and weather readings. Sunrise and sunset sit together on a single line above the date, each time in its own strand colour either side of a split sun. First and last light read at a glance without giving up a panel. Every number is set in a custom-baked typeface, every icon is drawn and anti-aliased on the watch itself, and the whole dial is smoothed rather than left with hard stair-stepped edges. The always-on display is burn-in-safe by design: a dimmed clock that shifts gently through the day. It carries your theme as colour but is held to one brightness, so it costs no more than a plain one. The date, battery and status cues are chosen independently. The engraving can be switched off to light fewer pixels. No ticking seconds, to spare your battery. Press and hold any readout to open the full metric. Set the theme, clock colour, rim rope, sun row and dial texture from the watch itself, or in the Garmin Connect IQ app.