Great Wave Print

A Japanese woodblock print, inspired by Hokusai's Great Wave, is the dial: an enormous indigo wave curls over the screen, its clawed foam reaching down, and in the hollow beneath it - right round the centre of the watch - a small snowy mountain sits on the horizon while long boats ride the troughs.

A watch in the print's own hand

The hours are round seals in indigo and cream with a fine black outline, larger at 12, 3, 6 and 9, where bold woodblock numerals stand on a cream halo. The hands are cut like the print itself: flat Prussian blue with a black outline and a cream edge, a slim vermilion seconds hand and a small red seal at the centre. Easy to read at a glance on the sky and on the foam alike.

Tap and the wave crashes

Tap the watch face and the wave breaks: foam claws and spray fly out from the crest across the dial and fall away.

Every hour

As the hour turns, a flock of birds crosses the sky over the mountain and the fingers of foam ripple along the crest.

Three prints

• Classic: the pale paper sky of the original colours.
• Night: a deep indigo sky, the foam pale in the dark.
• Faded: an old print, aged paper and softer blues.

Readings in title cartouches

Steps, unread notifications and battery sit in little cream cartouches on the sky, the way a print carries its title, with the date in one more. 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

The hands move once a second; the crash plays only on a tap and the birds only on the hour. Always-on shows the wave's outline as a dim indigo line, the seals, the numerals and the hands as outlines, and the date.

Make it yours

• Print: classic, night or faded.
• Seconds hand on or off.
• 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.