Name: ZULU TACTICAL — Zero-Setting Military Watch Face
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: nagamine-git

ZULU TACTICAL is a military watch face for Instinct 3 and Instinct E with no layout settings. It is the zero-base redesign of ZULU: one fixed layout, every reading at 6x9 pixels or larger, and only what a soldier checks at a glance.

WHAT IS ON THE FACE
- Local time in large stencil digits, 24-hour always, with seconds
- ZULU (UTC) time and date in the sub-screen, for reports and radio
- Grid: full MGRS with the grid zone, 100 km square and 8 digits (54S UE 8843 4929), from the last known position
- Light for the whole day on one bar: day, twilight (checker) and night. The hours around now are magnified with a tick every 10 minutes and three hours labeled; the rest of the day is compressed between the 00 and 24 marks. The moon line runs under it (thick when the moon is high and bright enough for night vision)
- Next light event with time to go: BMNT, SR, SS or EENT, for example SS 1740 T-3:08
- Battery, next moonrise or moonset, moon phase and illumination

STATUS IN WHITE-ON-BLACK
Warnings share one look, a white box:
- BT: the watch is connected to the phone, so it is emitting
- POS 05H or NO POS: the grid is three hours old or more, or there is no position yet

Everything is computed on the watch from the last known position (sun and moon times, twilight, moon phase). No phone or data connection is needed for the light data.

German watch language shows German day and month names.

The one setting is the date format: military (FRI 25 SEP) or ISO 8601 (2026-09-25 FRI).

Mission timers and alarms: use the watch's own Timer and Alarms. They vibrate; a watch face cannot.

ZULU TACTICAL is not affiliated with or endorsed by any military or government organization.