Apple Watch face for my USA trip

Recently I was traveling in the USA and to make sure I knew what time there was in my time zone back in Europe and in the states I was visiting California, Arizona and… Utah. I created a new watch face combining the World Clock and Summer Face which resulted in my “USA Watch face”:

Time zones are complicated…

I normally live in Europe with “Central European Time” which is 9 hours before the PST or “Pacific Standard Time”. The problem is that I was also traveling through Utah as I was visiting the Bryce Canyon which is in MST or “Mountain Standard Time”. Luckily on the Apple Watch Ultra 2 we have the “Modular Ultra” watch face which you can customize like this:

Top row of my “USA” watch face

• Current temperature (in Celsius, I’m not using Fahrenheit)
• Remote for photos (so I can easily take pictures with my iPhone and be on these picutres)
• Activity rings (for sports and easy access to step count)

Clock and day/night

Later I have the current time in the place I’m at. Then I have the “world clock” complication that shows the time back at home in Europe (WAR stands for Warsaw, capital of Poland) and visually I can see if they’re sleeping there or not.

Bottom row with LA time and sunset

• Current date
• Time in Los Angeles (I’m flying back from LA)
• Sunset/Sunrise (to know how much light we still have)

The last two complications were particularly important as I was sometimes on the border of Arizona and Utah and wanted to really know what time it was. Also as I was hiking in Bryce Canyon (pictured above) I wanted to make sure I could finish my hike before the sunset.

Custom Watch faces, Apple? Pretty please!

As WWDC (Apple’s Developers Conference) is approaching I’m still hoping that finally we get custom watch faces for the Apple Watch… but knowing how Apple wants to control it, I’m not holding my breath… and just keep customizing the only good watch face: Modular Ultra.