Tiger and Magpie

A Korean folk painting is the dial: a big, comical tiger sits in the lower left and goggles up at a magpie perched on an old pine branch, with cloud scrolls drifting on warm hanji paper. The tiger and the magpie are the best-loved pair of Korean folk art - the magpie brings good news, the tiger listens.

Tap for the magpie

Tap the watch face and the magpie crouches, hops along the branch, chirps, then flies a loop over the tiger and lands back on its branch.

Every hour, the tiger

As the hour turns, the tiger blinks twice, breaks into a grin and flicks its tail.

Painted in ink

The hours are brush dabs and brush-drawn numerals; the hands are black brush strokes with a soft paper halo, the seconds a slim cinnabar line and the date's day sits in a red seal.

Three papers

• Cream hanji.
• Aged - warmer, darker, foxed.
• White.

Readings on the paper

Steps, unread notifications and battery, lettered in ink. 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 moves at rest but the seconds hand; the magpie and the tiger play only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows the tiger and the magpie as faint ink outlines, the hands and the marks dim.

Make it yours

• Paper: cream, aged or white.
• 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.