Findings from building the My Day 24 faces: how a watch face is made, what goes wrong on real watches, and which faces are worth installing.
Data-rich, analog, mechanical and free faces actually worth installing, with links to each.
Seven design passes to a watch face only its owner can read: a maze grown from the digits, decoys that fused onto them, isolated ink islands, and data hidden as length.
A flight-instrument watch face, from three concept directions to the wrist photos that changed its contrast.
A skeleton dial phase by phase: a folder of photographs, a solved calibre, a buildability review, lit metal and a night frame.
A summer of building watch faces with coding agents: what they made possible, what I never hand over, and the mistakes that turned into rules.
The same photograph arrived three times from three watches: a purged bitmap, a graphics pool full on the wake frame, and a watch too slow to light its screen.
A script that takes a watch face's whole store gallery in the Connect IQ simulator, one build per picture, from a list the face keeps in its own folder.
The Connect IQ SDK ships a command-line tool for crash reports that almost nobody knows about, and a script or a coding agent can drive it.
A dive-timer dial from the sixties, redrawn to plot the wearer: four concepts and three rejections, gauges with real printed graduations, a flat variant for 64-colour screens, and the maker's plate that got the first submission declined.
A real night sky on the wrist with the time hidden in four fake constellations, and the star-snap wobble that turned a 1 into a 2.