Tempus Arcanum

Art & world

Screaming Figure

An expressionist painting is the dial - tap it and the scream bends the world

Get it on Google Play In the Tempus Arcanum app on Google Play

Looks

A blood-orange sky in long wavy bands, a dark swirling fjord, a bridge running off into the distance - and on it, a pale figure clutching its face, mouth open in a scream. An expressionist painting, inspired by Edvard Munch's The Scream, fills the whole dial.

Tap to scream

Tap the watch face and the scream goes out: rings of sound ripple from the figure's open mouth across the whole painting, bending the sky, the water and the bridge as they pass, while the sky's waves pulse - then the world settles again.

Every hour, the sky churns

As the hour turns, the sky's wave bands flow and undulate and darken for a moment, then fall still.

Painted time

Twelve short wavy brush strokes mark the hours, with XII, III, VI and IX in wavy blue-black brush. The hands are painted too: wavy blue-black strokes with a pale edge that read against both the fiery sky and the dark water, and a slim blood-red seconds hand.

Three skies

  • Blood orange, as painted.
  • Ash: a desaturated grey-violet sky.
  • Toxic: a sickly green-yellow sky.

Readings in the dark water

Steps, unread notifications and battery, and the date, in small pale lettering on the darker parts of the painting. 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

The hands move once a second; the scream and the churning sky play only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows the figure as a faint outline, with dim marks and hands on black.

Make it yours

  • Sky: blood orange, ash or toxic.
  • 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.

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