Expanding Sphere 3D

The expanding sphere toy, on your wrist: a lattice of glossy plastic scissor links crossing at their pivots, round hubs where the great circles meet, lit by a soft light from the upper left. You look through the front of the sphere to the links at the back, darker and deeper, their shadows falling across one another and onto the dark ground behind.

Every hour, it folds

As the hour turns, the sphere spins about its axis and folds in on itself - every pair of links scissoring closed - down to a small spiky ball, then springs open again with a little bounce.

Tap to fold it

Tap the watch face and the sphere folds and springs open whenever you like.

Easy to read

The hours sit on a dark ring round the sphere, and bold white hands with a dark outline stand out over the busiest part of the lattice.

Three plastics

• Rainbow: six great circles in six colours with white hubs.
• Neon: fluorescent links with black hubs.
• Silver: metal links with blue hubs.

Readings on the hubs

Steps, unread notifications and battery on three big plastic hub discs inside the sphere, the date on a fourth at the top. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon and text; set a slot to Empty and its disc goes too.

Easy on the battery

The sphere rests still between the hours; the fold plays only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the hours and the hands, dim on black.

Make it yours

• Colours: rainbow, neon or silver.
• Hour marks: numerals, Roman numerals or dots.
• Three complications.

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.