Google made a wine-esque guide for pairing Pixel Watch bands with faces - 9to5Google

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The Pixel Watch is launching with an extensive band and look collection, and Google has delightfully created a pairing usher of sorts.

For example, the default Active band is made of “waterproof fluoroelastomer with a soft-touch coating” that makes it “both durable and comfortable.” Google says it “goes good with” the Analog face that is described arsenic “minimal yet chic,” portion supporting 1 circular complication slot. Most Google advertizing uses this combination.

The Active set is disposable successful Obsidian, Charcoal, Chalk, Hazel, and Lemongrass, but yet did motorboat successful Coral, which was perchance leaked successful a Google Store email.

The Stretch band (Linen, Rose, Obsidian), which Isabelle Olsson (Senior Director, Design for Wearables, Nest, and CMF crossed Google hardware) equates to a comfy brace of sneakers, is champion with the “large numbers of the Big Time ticker face.” In fact, the antithetic colors for hours and minutes brings retired the 2 code quality of the band:

“It truly stretches and fits your life,” Olsson says. Quite literally. When the set is expanded, it offers a glimpse of different color, highlighting the texture.

Inspired by apparel, the Woven band (Lemongrass, Coral, Ivy) goes good with the Vista face that shows the clip and a scenery illustration. Like with the different cloth band, “the [watch face] colors besides coordinate with the colors successful the band.”

The Pixel Watch’s leather bands (Two-Tone and Crafted) spell good with either the Prime ticker face (which is said to beryllium for typography lovers due to the fact that Google Sans) oregon the info-packed Dial face and its 4 complication slots.

Lastly, there’s the Metal Mesh and Metal Link bands coming successful outpouring 2023, though we already cognize the price:

Classic has an analog timepiece positive the day and upwind successful a plan that references much accepted watches. Concentric has much of a method look, with a integer clip and rows of numbers communal connected diving watches.