Rose Window

A great round stained-glass window seen from inside, the daylight coming through it: carved stone tracery and, between the stone, glass the colour of jewels - cobalt, ruby, emerald and gold, full of the bubbles and streaks of hand-blown glass. Twelve petals, each a pair of lancets under one arch, radiate from a pale medallion in the middle, and twelve petals make twelve hours. Sixty beads carved on the stone moulding round the edge are the minutes.

Painted on the glass

Your readings are painted on the pale glass round the medallion in grisaille, the dark brown the old glass painters fired onto their windows, each in a leaded pane of its own: steps across the top, and unread notifications, the date and battery round the bottom. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon, or its title where it sends no icon, above its value.

Three lights

• Noon: full daylight through the glass.
• Morning: cool, pale early light.
• Evening: low golden sun.

One moment, and nothing else

On the hour a beam of sunlight passes once round the window, lighting the petals one after another. Nothing else moves but the hands, so it is easy on the battery.

Made to be read

• Gilded wrought-iron hands with a black iron inlay, clear against both the glowing glass and the dark stone.
• Dark painted lettering on the palest glass of the window.

Make it yours

• Light: noon, morning or evening.
• Seconds hand: 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.