Garden Sundial

A precious antique garden sundial fills the whole watch, seen from straight above: a plate of dark bronze, deeply engraved and filled with gold leaf, a gilded sun with a serene face at its heart, set into an old garden stone with ivy creeping round it. The ornate gilt gnomon stands on the twelve o'clock line, and its long soft shadow is the hour hand: it turns round the plate through the day, just as a sundial's shadow would.

Sunlight that moves

Opposite the shadow, the sun's warm glow lies on the bronze and the gold leaf, and it travels round the dial with the hour. At dawn and dusk the light turns to amber; from eight in the evening the scene takes on a cool moonlight and the shadow softens and turns blue.

Applied gold numerals

Twelve polished gold Roman numerals sit on the plain chapter ring, each a raised piece casting its own small shadow on the bronze, like the applied indices of a fine watch. An ornate gilt hand gives the minutes.

Engraved in gold

The date and your readings are engraved round the plate's moulded rim and filled with gold leaf.

Passing clouds

Tap the watch face and a cloud's shadow drifts across the dial before the sun comes back. Every hour, a glint of light runs round the rim.

Two patinas

• Bronze: dark antique bronze on warm sandstone, with ivy and lavender.
• Verdigris: deep blue-green bronze on grey limestone, with ivy and white flowers.

Readings on the rim

Steps, unread notifications and battery, engraved in gold with their icons. 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

Nothing moves faster than once a second; the cloud and the glint play only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the outlines of the numerals and the hands, dim on black, and the date.

Make it yours

• Patina: bronze or verdigris.
• 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.