Steampunk Gears

A steampunk machine on your wrist: a skeleton dial over turning brass gears, copper pipes and ruby jewels under a glass dome, where every reading is a working part of the mechanism.

The time

Pierced filigree brass hands, the minute hand tipped with a fleur-de-lis, turn over an engraved bronze chapter ring with black Roman numerals, fleurons and a minute track. Through its open skeleton centre you see the mechanical gears and rubies of the movement.

The machine's readings

• Moon phase: the brass porthole at the upper right shows the moon in its real phase tonight, with a telescope aimed at it.
• Steam pressure: the cream gauge at the left reads your battery from 0 to 100 with a blued needle.
• The odometer: five number drums at the bottom count the day's steps.

The moment

At the top of every hour, and whenever you tap the dial, steam puffs from the pipe, the gears in the well turn and settle, and the telescope's lens glints. Nothing moves at rest, so the battery is spared.

Make it yours

• Metal: brass, copper or steel, for the whole machine, its chapter ring and its hands.

Always-on

The dial goes dark: the chapter ring's engraving and the hands stay, in dim brass.

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: no permissions, no data collected. The steps come from your watch's own step counter.

Part of Tempus Arcanum, a collection of watch faces.