Keycaps 3D

A mechanical keyboard, up close, round your wrist. Sculpted keycaps stand over a switch plate inside a dark brushed aluminium case, and the time is typed on them: the hours on two keys pressed flush in the upper row, the minutes on two big keys raised high out of the keyboard toward you, their skirts reaching over the edge of the case with their shadows on it.

Every minute, a key pops up

When the minute changes, its new key springs up out of the plate with a flash of its backlight and settles in place.

Tap for a backlight wave

Tap the watch face and a wave of light runs across the keyboard under the keys. It runs on the hour too.

Printed like real keycaps

Every legend is bold and crisp, in strong contrast with its key, so the time reads at a glance.

Three keyboards

• RGB: dark keys, white legends, a rainbow backlight under every key.
• White: white keys, dark legends, a white backlight.
• Retro: beige keys, dark grey legends, no backlight.

Readings on the keys

Steps and battery are printed on the blank keys beside the hours, unread notifications on the small key at the top, and the date on the case. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon and text. Set a slot to Empty and its key stays blank.

Easy on the battery

Nothing moves at rest: the keys change once a minute, the backlight wave plays only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the outlines of the time keys and the date, dim on black.

Make it yours

• Keys: RGB, white or retro.
• 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.