Tactical field HUD
VANGUARD
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VANGUARD is a tactical field HUD for your wrist: night-vision green on black, with a bearing tape across the top of the dial. The tape has a tick every 5°, a taller tick every 15° and a label every 30° (N, E, S, W and the degrees in between). A fixed pointer and a lubber line mark your heading, and a boxed readout under the tape shows it as "274° W". The tape follows the compass heading whenever the watch reports one, usually during an activity. Otherwise it rests at north and the readout shows ---.
The time is set in large stencil-cut digits inside four HUD reticle brackets, with the seconds boxed beside the minutes. Above it are the weekday and date, plus today's sunrise and sunset. Two segmented gauges run along the left and right rim, showing Body Battery and battery by default. Below the time, three boxed cells with icons show heart rate, steps and battery. The bottom line shows your last GPS fix as latitude and longitude ("47.497 N 19.040 E") or NO FIX. Warning red marks low Body Battery and low battery, high stress, and a heart rate in zone 5.
Choose one of five themes: Field (olive green), Night (all red, to keep your eyes dark-adapted), Desert, Arctic or Ghost. Set each of the three cells to one of ten metrics, and feed the left gauge from Body Battery, step goal or stress and the right one from battery or step goal. The bottom line can show your position, altitude, sunrise and sunset, or nothing. Seconds, leading zero and 12/24-hour time can be switched too. In always-on mode on AMOLED watches only a dimmed time, the reticle corners and the date stay lit. MIP watches keep the full face and drop the seconds.
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Features
- Bearing tape: 5° ticks, labels every 30° (N / E / S / W and degrees), fixed pointer and boxed "274° W" heading readout with 8-point direction (heading when the watch reports one, otherwise --- )
- Large stencil-cut time (Chakra Petch) inside HUD reticle brackets, 12/24 h, optional leading zero
- Boxed seconds beside the minutes while the watch is awake
- Weekday and date, today's sunrise and sunset (from your last GPS fix or the weather location)
- Two segmented rim gauges: left Body Battery / step goal / stress, right battery / step goal; segments turn red when Body Battery or battery drops below 20 % or stress reaches 75
- Three boxed cells with icons: heart rate, steps, battery, calories, distance, Body Battery, stress, weather temperature, floors climbed or weekly active minutes
- Heart rate turns red in your zone 5, battery below 20 %
- Bottom line: last GPS position (decimal degrees), altitude, sunrise / sunset or off; NO FIX when the watch has no position yet
- Five themes: Field, Night (red night mode), Desert, Arctic, Ghost
- Missing values show as --, never invented
- Always-on mode: dimmed time, reticle corners and date on AMOLED watches; the full face without seconds on MIP watches
Settings
All settings are edited in the Garmin Connect IQ phone app; the face updates immediately.
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Theme | Field (olive green) / Night (red) / Desert (sand) / Arctic (ice white) / Ghost (white) | Field (olive green) |
| Time format | Same as watch / 12 hour / 24 hour | Same as watch |
| Leading zero on hours | on / off | off |
| Seconds (when awake) | on / off | on |
| Bottom line | GPS position / Altitude / Sunrise / sunset / Off | GPS position |
| Left data cell | Heart rate / Steps / Battery / Calories / Distance / Body Battery / Stress / Temperature / Floors climbed / Active minutes (week) | Heart rate |
| Middle data cell | same list | Steps |
| Right data cell | same list | Battery |
| Left arc | Body Battery / Step goal / Stress / Off | Body Battery |
| Right arc | Battery / Step goal / Off | Battery |
| License key | text | empty |
What's new
1.0.0 — Initial release.
Permissions
Positioning (last GPS fix for the position line and the sunrise / sunset times), SensorHistory (heart-rate, Body Battery, stress and elevation history), UserProfile (heart-rate zones for the zone-5 warning), Communications and Background (licence key activation).
Compatible watches
These models support VANGUARD. Check your exact model and size before buying.
- Approach S70 42mm
- Approach S70 47mm
- Approach S72 43mm
- Approach S72 47mm
- D2 Mach 1
- D2 Mach 2
- D2 Mach 2 Pro
- Descent Mk3 43mm / Mk3i 43mm
- Descent Mk3i 51mm
- Enduro 3
- Enduro 4
- epix (Gen 2) / quatix 7 Sapphire
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 42mm
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 47mm / quatix 7 Pro
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 51mm / D2 Mach 1 Pro / tactix 7 – AMOLED Edition
- fēnix 7 / quatix 7
- fēnix 7 Pro
- fēnix 7 Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)
- fēnix 7S
- fēnix 7S Pro
- fēnix 7X / tactix 7 / quatix 7X Solar / Enduro 2
- fēnix 7X Pro
- fēnix 7X Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)
- fēnix 8 43mm
- fēnix 8 47mm / 51mm / tactix 8 47mm / 51mm / quatix 8 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm / MicroLED / quatix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 8 Solar 47mm
- fēnix 8 Solar 51mm / tactix 8 Solar 51mm
- fēnix 9 43mm
- fēnix 9 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 43mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 47mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 51mm
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 47mm
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 51mm
- fēnix E
- Forerunner 165
- Forerunner 165 Music
- Forerunner 170
- Forerunner 170 Music
- Forerunner 265
- Forerunner 265s
- Forerunner 570 42mm
- Forerunner 570 47mm
- Forerunner 70
- Forerunner 955 / Solar
- Forerunner 965
- Forerunner 970
- MARQ (Gen 2) Athlete / Adventurer / Captain / Golfer / Carbon Edition / Commander - Carbon Edition
- MARQ (Gen 2) Aviator
- MARQ (Gen 3) Athlete / Adventurer / Aviator / Commander / Golfer / Diver
- Venu 4 41mm
- Venu 4 45mm / D2 Air X15
- vívoactive 6
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