Obsidian Serpent

A luxury dial in polished black obsidian with faint smoky gold swirls. A sculpted gold serpent with finely detailed scales coils once round the rim; its head rests at 12, looking straight at you with two ruby eyes, its tongue reaching into the dial. In the middle, the time in big, elegant gold Didone figures.

The serpent wakes

On every hour, and whenever you tap the watch face, a glint runs along the serpent's scales once round the coil to its head, and its gem eyes flash.

Four gold scales

Under the time, the day and date in spaced gold capitals, and four gold medallions shaped like the serpent's own scales: a widget of your choice (steps by default), your heart rate with a small gold heart, the weather now with its icon and temperature, and the battery.

Three metals, three gems

• Metal: yellow gold, rose gold or white gold - the serpent, the figures, the date and the medallions.
• Eyes: ruby, emerald or sapphire.

Readings

Put another app's complication in the first medallion and it shows that app's icon, or its title where it sends no icon. The weather comes from your watch's weather service; if it shows "--", open the Weather app on your watch once. The heart rate shows "--" until your watch has measured it.

Easy on the battery

Nothing moves at rest: the glint plays only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows the time as thin gold outlines, the date and two tiny glints of the eyes, dim on black.

Make it yours

• Metal: yellow gold, rose gold or white gold.
• Eyes: ruby, emerald or sapphire.
• One complication.
• 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.