Split Flap Board

An old mechanical split-flap board, the kind that clattered in railway stations and airports, fills your watch. Every figure and letter is printed on its own flap, cut across the middle by the flap's split, just like the real thing.

The time on big flaps

• Four big flaps show the hours and minutes, in your watch's 12- or 24-hour format.
• Every minute the flaps that change flip over: the top half of the old figure falls and the new one appears. When the minutes' tens roll from 5 to 0, the flap runs through every figure in between, as a real board does.
• The date sits on its own row of flaps under the time.

A board that talks

• Every hour, and whenever you tap the time, the header rattles through random letters and settles back, like a board updating its flights.
• In always-on mode the face turns dark and quiet: the time, the date, your steps and your battery, to save power.

Your information on the board

Three columns under the date show your steps, unread alerts and battery: a symbol flap with the data's icon over a wide flap with its value. Choose any other data for a column and it shows that data's own icon.

Make it yours

• Board: a departures board with a plane taking off, or an arrivals board with a plane landing.
• Three complications on the board: steps, unread notifications and battery by default. Choose other data for any of them in the watch face editor; each shows its data's own icon.

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.