Butterfly Specimen

A naturalist's specimen box on your wrist: twelve photorealistic butterflies, pinned in a circle on aged paper under glass, stand where the hour numerals would be, and ornate antique bronze hands tell the time over them.

The specimens

• Twelve different species - a blue morpho, a monarch, a swallowtail, an emerald swallowtail, a red admiral, a tiger longwing, a painted lady, a glasswing, a blue swallowtail, a peacock, a copper and a brimstone - each with an insect pin through its body.
• Four handwritten Latin labels, as in a museum drawer.
• The box's black rim and the soft reflection of its glass.

The hour's butterfly

On the hour, the butterfly of the new hour opens and closes its wings twice and settles. Tap it to see it again. Nothing else moves, so the face is easy on your battery.

Two specimen labels

Small typed paper cards at 9 and 3 show any data you pick: your steps and your battery by default. Each shows its app's own icon, or the app's name where it sends no icon; set one to Empty and its label leaves the box.

Customize

• Background: aged paper, black velvet or emerald silk.
• Hour marks: the butterflies alone, or Roman or Arabic numbers typed on paper tags under them.

Always-on

The screen goes dark: the butterflies' outlines and the hands, dim on black.

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.