Sun Staff

The headpiece of an ancient staff lies on the sandstone floor of a buried map room: a disc of hammered gold with a clear crystal set in its centre, a twisted rope rim round its edge. The hands turn over the crystal, and twelve sun rays engraved round the rim mark the hours.

Sunlight on the hour

As each hour turns, a shaft of sunlight falls through the dark onto the crystal: the crystal flares, and a beam of light is thrown across the gold and the stone floor.

Tap for the sun

Tap the watch face and the sunlight falls again.

Engraved in the gold

Your readings and the date sit in oval cartouches engraved into the gold, each lettered in a classical engraved capital.

Three metals

• Yellow gold.
• Rose gold.
• Old bronze.

Three kinds of hour marks

• The engraved sun rays.
• Roman numerals, engraved in the gold.
• Arabic numerals, engraved in the gold.

Readings in cartouches

Steps, unread notifications and battery, each in its own cartouche at 9, 6 and 3 o'clock, the date at 12. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon and value; set a slot to Empty and its cartouche goes, leaving plain gold.

Easy on the battery

The hands move once a minute; the sunlight plays only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the hour marks and the hands, dim on black.

Make it yours

• Gold: yellow, rose or old bronze.
• Hour marks: sun rays, Roman or Arabic numerals.
• 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.