Suunto Moves Watch Faces to App Store

This change was introduced with it’s latest software update that arrived this week:

When you first get your hands on your new watch, you will have a default watch face displayed on the time view. If you want a different looking watch face, there’s plenty of options found in the SuuntoPlus™ store, in the Suunto App! 

I know this is a minor thing as watch faces aren’t REALLY the reason one buys a sports watch but I always wanted more watch faces and enjoyed the increased variety Suunto started offering over the last few month. They also began letting users customize the complications on the watch face and change what other information is displayed on the dial besides just the time. Now, in a move that indicated that Suunto is going to offer even more watch faces in the future, they moved the selection process out of the watch and onto their app. This allows user to select their favorite watch faces within the app, sync to the watch and only have a few installed on there. This saves space on the watch and allows Suunto to offer more variety and not have to worry about the list of watch faces on the watch getting too long. And yes, I already spend too much time selecting my favorite watch faces, syncing them to the watch and customizing them to my liking.

In somewhat related news, and the UTMB vendor village I stopped by the Suunto booth to check out their $59 UTMB World Series band – I didn’t buy it. Not because I hated it, but because it didn’t blow me away, and there’s only so much UTMB gear one can own/wear/show off at the same time, right? Right?