Creation Fresco

A fresco of two hands reaching for each other across a pale, cracked plaster sky: one from the left, relaxed and waiting, one from the right, strong and purposeful, their fingertips almost touching. Inspired by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, painted anew for this watch face - and the watch turns exactly in the gap between the two fingertips.

A painted dial

A thin sepia circle is brushed round the fresco like a painted border, with twelve brush marks and the Roman numerals XII, III, VI and IX in elegant Renaissance capitals.

Gilded hands

Leaf-shaped hands in gold leaf, each with one lit and one shaded facet and a fine umber outline, so they read at a glance on the pale sky and on the painted arms alike. A slim seconds hand and a tiny gold cap sit right in the gap.

Tap for the spark of life

Tap the watch face and a bright spark jumps across the gap: a burst of golden light, fine glowing particles flying out, and a soft glow along both index fingers.

Every hour, divine light

As the hour turns, soft golden rays sweep in from the right across the fresco and brighten the plaster, then fade.

Three frescoes

• Classic: the pale plaster sky.
• Aged: warmer, darker, with more cracks in the old plaster.
• Night: a dusky blue-violet sky, the arms lit warm.

Readings in Renaissance capitals

Steps, unread notifications and battery above the arms, the day and date below them. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon, or its title where it sends no icon.

Easy on the battery

The hands move once a second; the spark and the light play only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows the two hands as a faint umber sketch, the ring and the numerals as dim outlines, with the time and the date.

Make it yours

• Fresco: classic, aged or night.
• Three complications.

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 watch faces.