They’ve escaped! The large runner carries the hour, the middle runner the minute, and the smallest the second. A crowd gathers behind them and starts over each minute.

Design by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

The left tower shows the hour and the right shows the minute, with traffic for the seconds and day/night change. Just a bit of fun.

A clock I can't read. Seriously.

This generates Ishihara colorblindness plates; please do not use them as a colorblindness test. They are going to be highly variable and inaccurate. For accurate ones, those are at whatcoloristhis.one (or whatcoloristhat.one), domains named after the two questions I get after people find out I'm colorblind.

There's an iOS version of it that has this as a widget, in case you need to conceal the time from a colorblind kidnapper or whatever.

Tap your wrist to add hands, or tap again to leave the plate alone. This face is for color Pebbles only. I can't not be a twerp in these descriptions. I'm sorry.

Design by Luke Steuber. lukesteuber.com

An elegant face for an elegant wearer. The time is the adult at the table, and the little connecting words stay quiet. 

I can't not be corny in these descriptions. I'll work on it. Feedback welcome. lukesteuber.com

Choose from 13 languages in the face settings on your phone. Let me know if I messed any up. The watch remembers your choice.

Design by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

I've been stuck on tarot art lately, so now there's an entire deck on your wrist. All 78 cards. This seemed reasonable at the time.

Draw one card, lay out a Celtic Cross, or try a three-card reading or a scattered table of five to seven cards. Turn them over one at a time. The last reading stays where you left it.

Select reveals a card, then opens its meaning. Hold Select to enlarge the artwork; Up and Down move through it. Back takes you out one step. You can turn reversals off in the menu.

Pamela Colman Smith's original black-and-white illustrations, with A. E. Waite's upright and reversed meanings from 1910. The language is very much from 1910. Everything lives on the watch and works offline.

Adapted by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

I wanted a clock that looked like it was being welded together. One bright wire joins the hour, minute, and second; the blue contact point travels around the inner ring and throws off little sparks.

Read from the outside in: hours, minutes, seconds. A wrist tap gives the motion a few seconds to flow.

The optional digital clock is off by default; enable it in settings.

Design by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

Inspired by the machine from Arrival, which I could not pull off, so you get this instead.

The count is literal: one ring per hour, minute, or second, with all 141 present at 23:59:59. At midnight, the rings clear.

An optional digital clock is available in settings.

Created by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

Daylight has twelve hours. So does night. Their lengths change with the seasons and your location. Planetary Hours follows the traditional sequence of seven planetary rulers, with each new planetary day beginning at sunrise.

A wheel highlights the current hour on round watches; two twelve-symbol rails do the same on rectangular watches. The center shows its planetary symbol and minutes remaining.

Enable location access for the Pebble phone app. It uses your phone's location to calculate sunrise and sunset, then saves the schedule on your watch. The face keeps working offline while that schedule lasts. Labels show whether the location is fresh, saved, or stale; an expired schedule asks you to reconnect. Polar day and polar night have their own status screens.

Coordinates stay on your phone. The face updates once a second on round and rectangular Pebbles, with a monochrome version for black-and-white screens.

Created by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

Mandaza grows a fresh weave on your wrist. Fine threads curl through hexagonal cells and draw connected paths over black. Color watches cycle through eleven palettes. Monochrome watches show bright white paths.

The pattern rests for 22 seconds after drawing, then begins again. A wrist tap starts a new weave. Round watches generate inside their circular screen; rectangular watches use the full field.

A small local-time caption follows your 12/24-hour setting. Everything runs on the watch, with no phone connection or account.

Created by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

Three drops turn a puddle into a clock. H marks the hour, M the minute, and S the second. Twelve standing rings fill around each drop, with small numbers showing the exact local time.

A small splash falls every second. A larger wave spreads at each minute, and the biggest arrives on the hour. Cyan crests pass through the gauges on color watches. Monochrome watches use solid rings and sparse dotted waves.

The emitters form a triangle on round and rectangular Pebbles. Petrichor updates once a second; tap your wrist for about six seconds of smoother ripples. It needs no phone connection, account, or settings.

Created by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

A broken ink ring keeps time through three curling tendrils: the longest marks the hour, the middle-length one the minute, and the shortest the second. The ring stays upright while it gently breathes and its brush tips sway.

Soft mist moves behind the ink on both color and monochrome watches. A digital clock is shown by default; settings let you hide it or select Calm motion.

Inspired by Arrival's circular writing. Heptapod is an independent clock design, not an official film product or a translator for its fictional language.

A free watchface by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

Three meteors fall toward a small Blue Marble Earth. On color Pebbles, gold marks the hour, cyan marks the minute, and violet marks progress through the local 24-hour day. Their angles show local time; each head moves inward as its hour, minute, or day passes, then starts again at the edge. Sparkling heads and outward tails cross an open star field, without digits or dial markings.

Earth turns with UTC. Monochrome Pebbles use dithered light and texture, with different meteor sizes in place of the three colors.

Meteor Strike updates once a second. Opening the face or tapping the watch starts about eight seconds of smoother motion. It works offline, without location access, settings, or a phone connection.

A free watchface by Luke Steuber for Ambient Time.

An analog timepiece with a beefy hosted editor. Choose plate, bezel, dial, hands, markings, and complications. Work ongoing!

The optional visual editor at ambient-time.com/watch/studio/ lets you explore designs and copy a setup code. Your design is saved on the watch.

Made for Pebble Time 2, Pebble 2 SE, Pebble Time Round, and Pebble Round 2. Round watches use circular artwork; the 2 SE uses black-and-white linework. Seconds are off by default.

Free.

A new garden every minute. Varied flowers emerge from the center, grow outward every second, and reach the corners as the minute ends. Petal shapes, counts, scales, stems, arrangements, and color palettes are regenerated for the next minute, while an elegant Bodoni readout stays calm above the abundance. Black-and-white Pebbles receive the same botanical geometry as a high-contrast engraving. Bloom Digits follows your Pebble’s 12- or 24-hour preference and works entirely offline without permissions or personal-data collection.

An seconds hand that sweeps the dial changing the colors of MM:DD with big primary bold ones.

A DOOM IRIS that opens over 24 hours, with which to INTIMIDATE YOUR ENEMIES

Time as you'd say it (in one dialect of English).

The hands are correct, the markers are sloppy. It's irritating! And configurable. Configurably irritating!

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