Retro Arcade

An old arcade screen on your wrist. A dark, curved picture tube glows with a game in chunky pixel art: two rows of little alien critters wiggling across the top, your ship waiting on the ground line, a field of stars, and the time in big pixel digits you can read at a glance. Every pixel glows like a real tube, with scanlines and a soft bloom.

Tap to fire

Tap the watch face and your ship fires: a critter bursts into pixels and the points float up where it was.

Every hour, a visitor

As the hour turns, a mothership glides across the top of the screen and the critters flash.

Always on the move

The critters swap their pose once a second, and a few stars twinkle.

Three palettes

• Green phosphor.
• Amber.
• Multicolour arcade.

Readings in the score row

Steps, unread notifications and battery, in a pixel score row under the time. 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

Nothing moves faster than once a second; the shot and the mothership play only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the time, in dim pixel digits on black.

Make it yours

• Palette: green phosphor, amber or multicolour.
• Three complications.
• 12- or 24-hour time, as your watch is set.

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.