Tempus Arcanum

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Pilot Flieger

The Type B observation dial: the most legible watch face ever drawn

Get it on Google Play In the Tempus Arcanum app on Google Play

Looks

The observation dial the air forces ordered, and nothing else: a matte black face, the minutes as big figures round the outside, the hours small within them, and a triangle with two dots at 12 so you find the top of the dial without reading anything.

Nothing on this face moves but the hands. There is no scene, no glow and no animation to tap for - this was a working instrument, and it is drawn as one.

Made to be read

  • Type B: the minutes outside, the hours inside a fine ring. Type A: the hours big round the outside, a plain railway track at the edge.
  • Sword hands with a matte lume inlay and a polished chamfer down each edge, so they read against the black.
  • A fine seconds hand with a lume arrow.
  • The date where the 6 would be.

Your readings, printed like the dial

Steps, unread notifications and battery are printed inside the hours - left, right and above the middle - each under the icon of the data it holds. Change one to something else in the editor and its icon changes with it.

Make it yours

  • Dial: Type B or Type A.
  • Seconds hand: on by default; switch it off to save battery.
  • Three complications, printed where the dial has room for them.

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

Every line of this dial is drawn in code - the paint, the printing, the triangle, the hands and the alphabet the figures are set in. There is no photograph in it and no maker's name on it.

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.

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