The Apple Watch's ever-changing faces as told by designer Alan Dye

What's in an Apple Watch face? We'll go out on a limb here and say it's a far greater endeavour than you might assume While headline features such as sleep tracking and hand-washing guidance are all-new to the Watch, many of its latest faces can be traced back to their first incarnation five years ago If the Watch has always struck a careful balance between traditionalism and innovation, then this is especially the case with watchOS 7 and two of its most notable new faces.

Replacing the Chronograph face that debuted on the original Watch, it's a great illustration of both the identity Apple has bestowed upon its device and how refinements such as these can be years in the making "We don't want to make a watch face unless we feel like we can add something to it," explains Dye So with the ability to switch form factor from a tachymeter to 60, 30, six and three second timers at the push of a button, the flexibility of a digital face distinguishes the Watch from its static-but-classic inspirators in the TAG Heuer Carrera and Breitling Chronomat.

More so than even last year's addition of an always-on display to the Watch Series 5, new faces and complications are usually defined by the computing power available to them. . Source