Retro Terminal

A watch face made like the screen of a retro-futuristic wrist computer: a monochrome phosphor tube under bulging glass, every line and letter glowing, faint scanlines, a dark edge and a curved highlight on the glass - and every reading on it real.

The screen

• A TIME / DATA / LOG tab row along the top.
• The time, big, in blocky terminal figures, 12 or 24 hours as your watch is set, and the day and the date under it.
• The UV gauge: an arc with a needle on today's UV index, 0 to 11+.
• A battery cell with its charge and the percentage.
• Three framed readouts: your steps, your heart rate and the temperature, in C or F as your watch is set.
• A terminal line under them: your next calendar event by default, or any data you pick. It shows its app's own icon, or the app's name where it sends no icon; set it to Empty and it leaves the screen clean.

Power on

Tap the screen, and at the top of every hour, the tube powers on again: the picture collapses to a bright line and opens back up with a flicker. Nothing moves at rest, easy on the battery.

Four phosphors

Green, amber, blue or white: every line and letter in that colour.

Always-on

The screen goes dark: the time and the date in dim phosphor.

To customize, touch and hold the watch face, then tap Customize.

The UV index and the temperature come from your watch's weather service: if they show "--", open the Weather app on your watch once. The heart rate shows when your watch has a recent reading. 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.