Spiked Collar

Something big wears this on full moon nights. The whole dial is a heavy leather collar laid flat on old dungeon flagstones: thick stitched leather with a steel roller buckle, twelve steel cone spikes for the hours and small rivets for the minutes. Forged iron hands turn over the cold stone in the middle.

Real leather, real steel

The band is built from photographed leather, its grain, its stitching along both edges and its waxy sheen lit from the upper left like a real collar on the floor. Each spike is a photographed steel stud casting its own shadow on the leather.

The glint

Tap the watch face and a star of light runs round the spikes one after another. It happens on its own every hour too. With numerals, a gleam runs round the leather instead.

Stamped steel tags

Your steps, your notifications and your battery are stamped into steel dog tags hung from the collar, and the date into a fourth. Remove a complication and its tag comes off. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon.

Three leathers

• Black.
• Oxblood.
• Tan.

Easy on the battery

Nothing moves at rest; the collar only glints on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the dim spikes or numerals and the outlines of the hands on black.

Make it yours

• Leather: black, oxblood or tan.
• Hour marks: steel spikes, Roman numerals or Arabic numerals stamped into the leather.
• 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.