Nordlys Fjell

Nordlys Fjell puts the northern lights behind your training data.

A photographic aurora backdrop on AMOLED, a hand-drawn aurora on MIP, and on top of it the live metrics you choose yourself — laid out so the numbers stay big enough to read at a glance mid-run.

WHAT'S ON THE DIAL

• Big, tabular time with live seconds and the date • Seven configurable metric slots — top, either side of the time, bottom • A goal arc up the left edge that fills as you close your target • A three-column centre block, chosen as a set • 60-minute rim ticks with accented quarters • Three layouts, from seven fields to three, the type growing as the count falls

PICK YOUR CENTRE BLOCK

Four presets, each answering one question rather than showing three unrelated figures:

• RUNNER — today's distance, your last run's pace, your 7-day total • TRAVELLER — three world clocks, labelled by city code • HEALTH — sleep score (or 7-day resting HR), stress, Body Battery • WALKER — steps, floors, weekly active minutes

The world clocks carry a real daylight-saving rule for every one of 40+ zones, not a fixed offset — so they stay right in March and October, when a lazier face is an hour wrong for half the year.

SEVEN SLOTS, FIFTEEN METRICS

Heart rate · steps · calories · altitude · temperature · floors climbed · battery · distance today · intensity minutes · VO2 max · Body Battery · recovery time · sunrise · sunset · stress — or off.

Every slot takes any of them. Each is a crisp icon over a large value: no caption clutter, no squinting. VO2 max even prints your Garmin fitness band — SUPERIOR, EXCELLENT — coloured to match.

CHOOSE HOW MUCH, AND HOW BIG

One setting changes how much is on the dial and how large it's drawn:

• FULL — seven fields and the centre block, at the shipped sizes • BALANCED — five fields, everything about a seventh larger • FOCUS — three fields, type a third larger, and a time taller than any other layout can fit

Nothing is scaled up and left to collide: each step clears a band of the dial and gives the space to the numbers that remain. Your slot choices are kept whichever layout you pick, so Focus for a week and back to Full leaves the dial exactly as you had it.

MAKE IT YOURS

• Six accent colours: aurora green, ice cyan, violet, amber, coral, sky blue. One setting recolours the colon, seconds, quarter ticks, goal arc and every icon together. • Five backdrops: Curtains Over the Lake, Valley, Fjord, Corona, or pure black for maximum battery and contrast. • Show or hide the brand mark. • Point the goal arc at whichever metric you're chasing.

BUILT FOR YOUR SCREEN, NOT A GENERIC ONE

Most faces are designed for AMOLED and then shipped to everything. This one is drawn twice. AMOLED gets photographic backdrops at your panel's exact pixel count, plus a dimmed always-on view that shifts every minute to protect the display. MIP watches get a palette picked from the 64 colours those panels can genuinely render, heavier type, a redrawn layout, and second-by-second ticking in low power. Icons and Barlow Condensed fonts are generated at the exact size they're drawn — never stretched, never blurry.

DESIGNED TO BE EASY ON THE BATTERY

Only the data your chosen preset needs is ever read: pick Traveller and the seven-day activity history is never walked, pick Runner and the sleep score is never fetched. World clocks rebuild on the minute, not every frame.

WORKS WITH

56 round Garmin watches: fenix 7 / 8 / E, epix Pro, Enduro 3, Forerunner 165 / 255 / 265 / 570 / 955 / 965, Venu 2 / 3, vivoactive 5 / 6, MARQ 2, Descent, Approach and D2. Requires firmware with Connect IQ 5.0+.

NOTES

Sleep score needs a watch and firmware that publish it; where it isn't available the Health preset shows 7-day resting heart rate instead. Some metrics (VO2 max, Body Battery, recovery time, temperature, altitude) depend on your watch's sensors and recorded activity.

Set it up in Garmin Connect › your watch › Connect IQ Apps › Nordlys Fjell › Settings.