Clock Tower Watch Face

Stand inside a castle's clock tower at night, behind its glass clock face. Through the glass the grounds lie in the moonlight: the gamekeeper's hut and its pumpkins, a distant pitch with its hoops, the village lights beyond the lake. Two candles float by the rim, and the moon shows its real phase.

The clock's gilded hands tell the time over the brass gears at its hub, with the date in gold under XII.

What moves

- At each new minute the minute hand steps on and the gears turn with it.

- On the hour the clock strikes, a ring of warm light running across the glass with each stroke, and a giant pendulum swings past.

- Every quarter hour an owl carrying a letter flies by outside.

- Tap the left of the clock face and the pendulum swings in.

- In always-on mode the tower goes dark: only the hands, the hour marks, the date, your steps and battery stay lit, to save power.

Make it yours

- Numerals: Roman, or Studs (a gilded marker at each hour).

- Strike on waking: the pendulum also swings each time your watch wakes (on by default).

- Three complications below the hub: steps, unread notifications and battery by default. Choose other data for any of them in the watch face editor.

To customize, touch and hold the watch face, then tap Customize.

Works on watches with Wear OS 6 or later. Made in Watch Face Format: nothing to install on your phone, no permissions, no data collected.

Part of Tempus Arcanum, a collection of animated watch faces from a world of witches and wizards.