Overview
For those discerning ultra-luxury watch lovers, Luxelion presents the Carrera GAT Luxury watch face for the Garmin Epix gen 2. This premium analog watch face is designed to offer a luxurious look that hints at a popular and expensive watch. All the while, it has the modern capabilities of a versatile smartwatch.
Compare with TAG Heuer® Calibre 16. By default, this watch face will start in the most similar configuration. But you can adjust settings to make it your own.
This product is not published or endorsed by TAG Heuer®. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Purchase Options
Purchasing any Luxelion app is easy and fully automated. Just pick a purchase option below and you’ll receive your license key via email as soon as your payment completes.
Standard Complications
The intricate design of the analog watch face offers a range of complications that allow the user to display various metrics such as body battery, stress level, and many more, each of which can be customized to the user's preferences.
Other Customizations
Accent Color
One special customization for this watch face is the ability to set the accent color of the needle tips. Select from these colors:
- Adrenaline Red
- Apex Orange
- Rapid Blue
- Azure Blue
- Fairway Green
- Accelerate Yellow
Dial Number Style
The choice is entirely yours whether you’d like to display hours or minutes around the dial. Options are:
- Padded Hour (01, 02, etc.)
- Authentic: Padded Minute (05)
- Standard Hour (1, 2, etc.)
- Standard Minute (5)
Dial Tick Style
The default option is to display the ticks in the most authentic way, but you can also turn the ticks off for a more minimal display.
Three Gauges
- Top Gauge
- Left Gauge
- Bottom Gauge
Low-power mode
The watch is also designed to be battery-efficient, with a gorgeous low power mode that minimizes battery drain on always-on AMOLED screens. The low power mode is especially luxurious, as it resembles the analog watch it is modeled after when in the dark (with glow-in-the-dark hands).
Battery Efficiency
The Carrera GAT Luxury watch is especially battery-efficient, given it’s use of caching, Buffered Bitmaps, and special low-power mode.
Design Details & Authenticity
The Carrera GAT Luxury watch face features many details that replicate the look and feel of expensive luxury timepieces, including:
- Authentic-looking hour, minute, and second hands with smart shading effects and subtle 3-dimensional shadows
- The visual effect of hi-reflectivity silver numerals around the dial
- Sub-second ticks around the dial, making exceptional use of Garmin’s latest higher-resolution AMOLED displays
- Functional day & date window
- Intricately-designed mini dials which can display any one of the standard Luxelion complications
- Glow-in-the-dark effect for the hour- and minute-hand when the watch is in low-power mode
Commitment to Craftsmanship
All Luxelion watch faces, including the Carrera GAT Luxury watch face, are engineered by professional developers (not hobbyists) to the highest quality standards. Our team is based in the United States of America.
Conclusion
The Carrera GAT Luxury watch face is a great choice for those who want a high-end watch experience and a modern set of features and capabilities that can be tailored to the user's needs. Furthermore, the watch face will receive updates over time, making it a great investment.
Whether looking for a sleek, contemporary look or a classic, sophisticated design, the Carrera GAT Luxury watch face is sure to exceed expectations. The the intricate attention to detail ensures a luxurious look and feel.
Recent Updates
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September 18, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P9.D8.F13 - Released September 18, 2023
Platform 9 contains a minor stability improvement to address a rare crash on some devices.
The 8th data platform version contains minor stability improvements for rare cases:
- resolves a crash when users with unspecified birth years accessed the “Active Calories” metric (that metric relies on a person’s age).
- resolves a crash when users with very old firmware try to access metrics that require the sunrise time, which was not available on certain older firmware versions
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August 30, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P8.D7.F12 - Released August 30, 2023
Adds support for Venu3 and Venu3s.
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August 8, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P8.D7.F11 - Released August 8, 2023
This Carrera update includes basic support for characters/letters displaying from non-English language.
The 8th gen LuxeLion platform fixes license check issues that some customers experienced due to a Garmin bug I reported. It also better communicates license status.
In addition, this platform update brings wider support for non-latin characters across more watch faces.
Other fixes include:
- Now shows bike/run distance in miles/km instead of meters
- Fixed rare crashing issue related to certain sensor properties returning bad values
The gen 7 data module features small performance improvements and stability enhancements.
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June 1, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P6.D6.F10 - Released June 1, 2023
Data Module 6 gives you far more visibility and control.
- First, it adds 9 new complications (mainly related to training).
- Next, it supports more customization options for metric formats & units (to override system settings). For example, you can specify your date format (M/D/Y, D/M/Y, Y/M/D) or temperature & distance units.
- Excitingly, all icons can now be drawn with colors, for even more stylish designs & user customization (on certain supported watch faces).
- It resolves an issue where the sunrise/sunset metric wasn’t respecting a user’s 12/24-hour clock setting.
- Additionally, it introduces some customizable goals (for metrics like running/cycling distance).
- And finally, it includes numerous massive performance and memory savings (which were required to add these new features without exceeding memory limits).
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March 28, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P5.D6.F10 - Released March 28, 2023
F10 improves some visual styles within the face, including more prominent shadows for easier reading.
The new LuxeLion Platform P5 is the companion to Data Platform 6, bringing numerous performance optimizations as well as configurable date & time options.
Data Module 6 gives you far more visibility and control.
- First, it adds 9 new complications (mainly related to training).
- Next, it supports more customization options for metric formats & units (to override system settings). For example, you can specify your date format (M/D/Y, D/M/Y, Y/M/D) or temperature & distance units.
- Excitingly, all icons can now be drawn with colors, for even more stylish designs & user customization (on certain supported watch faces).
- It resolves an issue where the sunrise/sunset metric wasn’t respecting a user’s 12/24-hour clock setting.
- Additionally, it introduces some customizable goals (for metrics like running/cycling distance).
- And finally, it includes numerous massive performance and memory savings (which were required to add these new features without exceeding memory limits).
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March 21, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P4.D5.F9 - Released March 21, 2023
This exciting release adds support for numerous new devices: Marq series, Forerunner 265s and 965, and all Venu 2 devices. It also includes Hold-to-Open (HTO) technology.
LuxeLion Platform version P4 bring support for Garmin’s new “Hold-to-Open” (HTO) complication experience. All LuxeLion watch faces now support the ability to tap & hold on a metric on the screen to open the related app. For example, if you have the “Stress” metric on your LuxeLion watch face, you’ll be able to tap & hold the “Stress” icon to open the “Stress” app. This platform version also drastically improves memory usage and adds more helpful messaging to the unlock experience. The improvements & memory savings from this platform version will make possible a number of new features in the future.
The LuxeLion D5 data module adds support for the Garmin Complications framework and Hold-to-Open (HTO) technology. It also reduces memory usage through some internal streamlining, which will make it possible to bring you even more metric options in a future release.
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March 12, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P3.D4.F8 - Released March 12, 2023
This release brings the AMOLED burn-in protection feature to the Carrera GAT. See below for details:
LuxeLion Platform version P4 bring support for Garmin’s new “Hold-to-Open” (HTO) complication experience. All LuxeLion watch faces now support the ability to tap & hold on a metric on the screen to open the related app. For example, if you have the “Stress” metric on your LuxeLion watch face, you’ll be able to tap & hold the “Stress” icon to open the “Stress” app. This platform version also drastically improves memory usage and adds more helpful messaging to the unlock experience. The improvements & memory savings from this platform version will make possible a number of new features in the future.
Data module update D4 adds support for moon phase calculations. Under the “Sun & Moon” category in the on-device settings, you can now select to display the moon phase percent or name.
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March 5, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P2.D3.F7 - Released March 5, 2023
Brings Carrera onto the latest Luxelion platform & data module.
This new platform version (P2) includes major memory savings and a new “stats” module for reporting on metrics like time on screen, paint count, and number of wakes. It also makes the on-device settings menu easier to navigate.
This data module update (D3) substantially reduces memory, clearing the way to support more metrics in the future.
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March 2, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P1.D2.F6 - Released March 2, 2023
Added support for more devices: D2™ Air X10, D2™ Mach 1, and Forerunner® 965
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February 26, 2023 | ➖➖
Version P1.D2.F4 - Released February 26, 2023
Added more Carrera-specific options, such as the ability to remove 0-padding, hide the tick marks, and additional colors for the needle tips. This also adds 8 more metrics, like “Feels like” temperature, “Active Calories”, and a few more.
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February 19, 2023 | ➖➖
Version 1.0.3 - Released February 19, 2023
Added celsius support for weather
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Roadmap
We’re always making improvements to our watch faces, and we’re fully transparent about what we’re working on. Here are the upcoming improvements and fixes coming to the Carrera GAT Luxury watch face:
- The Watch Face Name
- Whether it’s a new feature request or a vote for an existing one
- Your email so we can alert you with updates