Wooden Blocks 3D

The time, built from four wooden toy blocks. Two blocks stand on a light-oak table for the minutes, two more sit on top of them for the hours, each digit carved deep into a block's front. The blocks are real solids drawn in perspective: you see each one's front, its top and its side, the grain running round every face, soft shadows on the table and in the gaps where the blocks touch.

Blocks that turn

Every new minute, the block that changes spins a quarter turn and the new digit comes round from its side to the front. The tens and the hours turn only when they change; the hour blocks give a little hop as they spin.

Tap to knock the table

Tap the watch face and the table gets a knock: a puff of sawdust jumps at the foot of the stack and light runs over the blocks.

Three woods

• Beech: pale, honey-coloured beech with dark carved digits.
• Walnut: dark walnut with cream digits.
• Painted: each block painted a different soft colour, with white digits.

Readings on wooden tiles

The date is carved on a small beech tile in front of the blocks; unread notifications, steps and battery are carved on small tiles round the stack. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon; set a slot to Empty and its tile goes away.

Easy on the battery

Nothing moves between minutes; a turn plays for about a second, the knock only on a tap. Always-on shows only the outlines of the blocks' fronts and their digits, dim on black.

Make it yours

• Wood: beech, walnut or painted.
• Three complications.
• 12- or 24-hour time, as your watch is set: hours below 10 stand on a single block.

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.