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Seconds Hand on timepiece and Garmin

Jean
over 1 year ago

Hi Guys,

After hesitating between the MARQ and the MK3, I finally decided to get the MK3 for the size, flashlight and occasional dive.

For me I also bough the watch as a 'timepiece' and for it to replace my G-Shock MTG even when I'm wearing a suite.

One of the things that really bothers me is that a watch as a timepiece should always have the seconds hands running, that's the beauty of a watch for me, and it seems that Garmin disabled that option.

I think they should allow the user to decide to enable it for always on or not, perhaps with a warning that it will consume the battery.
If I as a user am willing to sacrifice my battery life to have my seconds hands always running after buying a 2000$ watch than it should be my choice especially since they allow other consuming battery data to show like the heart rate graph that changes every second.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I may be misunderstanding you, but on my Mk3i, the seconds hand on all the watch-faces I've tried is always running -- updating every second.

    Maybe you're referring to the Always On Display option for your screen / watch hands to always show? For special events in a suit, this is what I do, as well as switching from my digital, data-heavy watch-face to the beautiful default watch-face with analog hands.

    For me personally, I desire to optimize battery life and have heaps of data at my finger tips. In turn, I have a custom digital watch face that only updates every minute instead of every second. This saves (marginally) on battery.
    Doesn't go well with a suit, but I can always swap it to the beautiful default with analog hands.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to LongingLion
    LongingLion said:
    on my Mk3i, the seconds hand on all the watch-faces I've tried is always running -- updating every second.

    Only if the acceleration sensor detects a movement.
    Place the watch on a table that does not wobble and the analog second hand will disappear after a while.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I see where you're coming from, I also want my watch to look like a timepiece all the time. But while this was achievable with the LCD screens, with AMOLED it's pretty much impossible to have the screen fully on and have any meaningful battery life. We are talking like 5-6 hours total if my approximations are correct. Which means it would make the watch pretty much unusable on a daily routine unless you're okay with charging it like twice a day.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 7843043

    The descent mk3i 51mm has 10days battery life with always on display, venu 2 is only 2 days, venu 3 5 days but theyre much thinner watches ie smaller batteries