Letter Wall Lights

An old living-room wall with faded floral wallpaper. Painted on it by hand in black house paint, the alphabet in three rows - and over every letter, a bulb of an old string of Christmas lights, its wire strung from nail to nail. The time is painted big under the alphabet in the same paint, always easy to read.

On the hour, the lights speak

Every hour the whole string goes dark. Then, one by one, the bulbs flash over the letters and spell out the hour - E, L, E, V, E, N - before the whole string glows again.

Painted by hand

Every letter and every numeral is painted brush stroke by brush stroke, uneven and alive, with runs of paint dripping from some of them. No two letters are the same.

Three strings of lights

• Many colours: red, green, blue, yellow and orange.
• Warm white.
• Red.

Readings on the wall

Steps, unread notifications and battery, and the date, painted 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

Nothing loops: the lights stay still until the hour. Always-on shows only the time and a faint alphabet.

Make it yours

• Lights: many colours, warm white or red.
• 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.