Apple Watch Chronograph Pro Face - Unique colors you didn’t know about

Update 2/6/25 @ 5:59PM - this article also applies to the Count Up Watch Face.

Since the beginning of Apple Watch, Apple releases new colors for Apple Watch face customization during different seasons.

Out of the 130+ custom colors to choose from, there are only 4 colors that standout to give you a unique and more professional watch face experience.

Let’s look at the Chronograph Pro watch face.

By default, this watch face gives you 19 dark watch faces that show a single color. The dark watch faces are neat, but they are very one-dimensional with a single color dominating the complications, the main dial, and the sub-dial hands.

Following the 19 dark watch faces, you are greeted with 12 professional looking multi-color watch faces.

There are 140 custom color watch faces you can add, but only 4 of them have that professional multi-color look.

Take a look for yourself:

It’s not as obvious as the California Watch face, but you can see it.

These four bonus colors are: Clover, Starlight, Red, and Abyss Blue.

You can find them under the Fall 2021 season. 

English Lavender and Dark Cherry are also in the Fall 2021 Season, but they don’t get the special treatment.

Not sure if this was meant to be, but I’m all for the multi-color effect. You get a more professional looking watch face with more contrast similar to the 12 watch faces Apple gives you by default. All the corner widgets are gray, and you get orange sub-dial hands on white or black sub-dials. That orange sub-dial hand color? Very close if not the same as the iPhone Mute Switch.

These four colors are distinct from their closest resembling professional watch faces and have their own unique look:

Evergreen (default) vs Clover.

Watermelon (default) vs Red.

Navy Blue (default) vs Abyss Blue.

Among all these default colors, the custom Starlight color has its own unique look. Starlight and Light Titanium are the only two faces that have white sub-dials with black hands.

My theory for why these four colors are special? In Fall 2021, the Series 7 aluminum models came in four special colors: Green, Starlight, (PRODUCT) RED, and Blue.

They also came in the standard Space Gray which was called Midnight, but no one cares.

There are many shades of red to choose from, but the red from Fall 2021 definitely resembles (PRODUCT) RED. I think Apple wanted matching watch face colors with the debut of these new colors and the newly remodeled edge-to-edge screen on the Series 7.

If you really enjoy the 12 default multi-color watch faces Apple gives you, now you have 4 more to enjoy. If Craig Federighi thinks this watch face is cool, it’s cool.