UTC bezel

PaseMkr said:

I am using an analog watchface on my Tactix 8, but it's not a chronograph face. Since the bezel doesn't rotate, is it unusable in my current configuration?

The watch face you use must have either a dedicated 24 hour "GMT" hand, or a GMT pointer which will point to the UTC time indicated on the UTC numbers on the bezel.

Here is a screenshot of one of the built-in analog watch faces on the tactix 8 that has such a pointer:

Do you see the blue triangle with the circle in it that the yellow arrow is pointing to?  That's the UTC time indicator.

Local time indicated by the analog hands is 18:53:10.  I am in time zone UTC -6, so the blue triangle is pointing to just before the UTC time indicator for "1" on the UTC bezel (it is the "-" mark between "24" and "02" on the UTC bezel).

With most watch faces that have a UTC indicator, whether it is a dedicated hand or a pointer, you can select a different time zone for the pointer if you wish - it doesn't have to indicate UTC, it could indicate any other alternate time zone you desire.

A rotatable bezel, in order to be usable with analog hands, would have to have only 12 hour markers instead of the 24 hour markers on the tactix UTC bezel.  This is because the normal watch hour hand goes around the entire watch dial in only 12 hours, not 24.

HTH