Burning Fuse

The lid of an old wooden crate with a bundle of dynamite at the top, and a safety fuse running from it all the way round the edge. It burns all hour: the sputtering spark creeps round the dial towards the dynamite, the fuse charred black behind it and still whole ahead. The time is spray-painted big through a stencil.

Every hour, it goes off

As the hour turns, the spark reaches the dynamite: a flash fills the screen, a fireball, and smoke billows over the dial - then it clears, and a new fuse lies ready to burn through the next hour.

Tap for sparks

Tap the watch face and the spark flares up and throws sparks across the crate.

Stencilled by hand

The time, the date and your readings are sprayed through a stencil drawn for this face, every letter cut with its bridges like a real stencil.

Three crates

• Olive drab.
• Desert.
• Black.

Readings on the crate

Steps, unread notifications and battery, stencilled under the time. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon, or its title where it sends no icon.

Easy on the battery

The fuse moves once a second; the sparks and the explosion play only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the time and the date, dim on black.

Make it yours

• Crate: olive drab, desert or black.
• Three complications.
• 12- or 24-hour time, as your watch is set.

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.