Apple Watch Meridian Face - Unique colors you didn’t know about.
I’ve written two earlier pieces about the unique colors for the California and Chronograph Pro watch faces, but what really surprised me was the Meridian watch face.
Meridian is another analog watch face like California and Chronograph Pro and is the simplest of the bunch. It just has 4 complications in the middle of the watch in a diamond-shaped pattern.
The dial can be either black or white contrasted with white or black hour markers. The color that you choose only changes the color of the complications.
The Meridian watch face keeps a low profile with color strictly restricted to the complications. (Standard colors shown.)
There are 139 custom colors to choose from, but only four of those give you a unique look that also change the color of the hour and seconds markers. Combine that with either a white or black face, and you have 8 unique watch faces.
And they look amazing.
Those four colors are Clover, Starlight, Red, and Abyss Blue, and they’re located under the Fall 2021 collection.
Whether you use the white or black face, you get an interesting look that you probably didn’t know existed among the other 135 custom colors.
Just for scale, take a look at all the custom colors below, with the four unique colors highlighted:
4 out 139 have the special color feature.
Not only are the hour markers color-coded, but so are the second markers. In an alternate world, these colors would be: Sour Cream and Onion, Salted Caramel, Peppermint Red, and Gorgonzola.
Now, let’s go dark:
The darker versions really pop more due to the contrast.
Once again, among all the standard and custom colors, only these four give you that extra splash of color.
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.
Whatever the reason, I hope you enjoy these new colors on your Meridian watch face.