Watercolour Palette

An artist's round watercolour tin, open on your wrist. Twelve half pans of paint sit round its white enamel - and twelve pans make twelve hours. The minutes are sixty small dabs of Payne's grey painted on the enamel beyond them, and the hands are three brushes: a short flat one for the hour, a long round one for the minute and a fine liner for the seconds, their hair pointing at the time.

Every pan has been used: a soft dip where the brush has worked it, a smear of its own colour on its rim. In the middle stands a porcelain mixing well with the last colour dried in it.

Three sets of paints

• Classic spectrum: a full colour wheel, from lemon yellow round to sap green, with Payne's grey at 12.
• Pastels: soft apricot, rose, lilac, aqua and mint, with a warm grey at 12.
• Earth colours: ochres, siennas and umbers, with ivory black at 12.

Your readings, painted on the palette

Steps, unread notifications and battery are painted in Payne's grey on the mixing area, with the date at 3 o'clock - in an alphabet painted for this face. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon, or its title where it sends no icon.

One moment, and nothing else

On the hour, a drop of water falls into the pan the hour hand points at, ripples across the paint and leaves it wet and glossy for a moment. Nothing else moves but the brushes, so it is easy on the battery.

Make it yours

• Paints: classic spectrum, pastels or earth colours.
• Seconds brush: on by default; switch it off to save battery.
• 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.