Frozen Lake Ice

A frosty winter watch face for Wear OS, made of frozen lake ice. Look straight down through the ice of a frozen mountain lake. Cracks run away under your feet, and caught below them are the stacks of white discs that frozen bubbles make - each one a column going down into the ice, the deepest of them soft and far away.

The twelve largest bubbles are the hours. Between them lies a whole field of smaller, deeper ones, the way a real lake carries them, so the dial has the thickness of ice in it rather than twelve marks on a ring.

Three lakes

• Turquoise glacier ice, deep and clear, crossed by long contraction cracks.
• Black ice, newly frozen, almost without a mark on it.
• Wind-scoured ice, pale and grained, with dry snow caught in its scours.

Made to be read

• Hands cut as ice prisms: a ridge down the middle, one facet to the light and one turned away, with a channel of packed frost inside that reads against the ice.
• Steps, unread notifications and battery cut into the ice in a cross inside the ring of bubbles, each beside the icon of the data it holds; the date at 3 o'clock.
• Every figure is cut with a skate's edge - a groove of crushed ice with two bright lips and its own shadow - in an alphabet drawn for this face alone.

One moment, and nothing else

On the hour the ice sings: light runs out along the cracks from where they meet and goes out. Nothing else on this face moves but the hands, so it is easy on the battery.

Make it yours

• Ice: turquoise glacier, black ice or wind-scoured.
• Seconds hand: on by default; switch it off to save battery.
• Three complications.

Made for winter

• A frosty winter look for the snowy months, from the first frost to the thaw.
• Not a Christmas face: it looks right all winter long.

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

Works on Wear OS 6 or later, such as Galaxy Watch models updated to One UI 8 Watch and Pixel Watch. 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.