Carnival Wheel

At midnight on Halloween a carnival lies abandoned under a full moon. Torn circus tents sag in the fog, dead strings of bulbs hang between the poles, a jack-o'-lantern grins from a vendor's cart, and in the middle a rusty Ferris wheel rises, its twelve gondolas carved pumpkins.

Wheel, bulb marquee, or both

• The Ferris wheel is the clock: its twelve pumpkin gondolas are the hours, the one at the current hour glows, and two painted hands turn on its hub.
• Light-bulb numerals on an old marquee board show the time, with the day and date beneath; the hour follows your watch's 12- or 24-hour setting.
• By default you get both at once.

Your information is on the fairground

Your steps are chalked on the ticket booth's price board, your unread notifications on its window sign, and your battery on the high striker's brass plate.

What moves

• Each minute the marquee's bulbs flicker, the carnival lights gutter and the minute hand jolts on.
• On the hour the wheel creaks through a full turn, its gondolas swinging and a chase of lights running round its rim, every light blazes and crows burst out from the tents.
• Tap the wheel and it turns. Tap the cart's jack-o'-lantern and it hiccups flame. Tap the high striker and the puck shoots up to ring the bell.
• On Halloween night, from 6 pm to 6 am, crows scatter every quarter hour, and from midnight to one the moon and every light turn blood-red.
• In always-on mode the fairground turns dark under a dim moon; only the wheel's outline and hands or the numerals, the date, your steps and your battery stay lit, to save power.

Make it yours

• Time: wheel and marquee, wheel only (with a large date on the board), or marquee only.
• Lights: carnival amber, ghost green, spirit blue or blood red, for the marquee, the date and the current hour's gondola.
• Pumpkin flare on waking: the jack-o'-lantern flares each time your watch wakes (off by default).
• Three complications on the price board, the window sign and the striker plate: 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.