Departures: Flip Clock Watch

Your day on a grand-station departure board.

Departures by Pixelpond turns your watch into the split-flap departure board of a great European railway terminus, drawn in pixel art: charcoal flaps, ivory letters and signal yellow for whatever is next. Around the board, the station sits at dusk: two warm globe lamps, glazed panes in an iron frame, brick piers and, through the open end of the shed, the city and a stone viaduct.

THE BOARD COMES ALIVE
Every minute a flap turns over and slaps down. Raise your wrist and the station lights come on, then the whole board clatters into place with your day on it, and it does it again at the top of every hour. At midnight the date clears and rattles onto the new day as all four digits roll over. Catch the board on the hour and a station pigeon drops onto the line beside your train, pecks about and flies off again.

YOUR NEXT EVENT IS THE NEXT DEPARTURE
Your next calendar event leads the timetable, its time in signal yellow and a countdown above it: IN 45 MIN, then BOARDING. When the minute comes, the row clatters and the departure leaves the board for whatever comes next. The second row is a world clock by default, or sunrise and sunset, or another text complication you choose.

A JOURNEY FOR YOUR STEPS
A little yellow railcar starts the day at the platform and travels a pixel railway, past two halts, toward your step goal at the terminus. It keeps a timetable, so the board tells you whether your walking is ON TIME, a few minutes behind or DELAYED. Reach your goal and it pulls into the terminus the next time you look: ARRIVED.

CONDITIONS AND COUNTERS
The weather reads like the conditions at your destination: a pictogram flap, the temperature and a word for the sky. Steps and battery have flaps of their own.

TAP THE BOARD
Tap the clock and its drums rattle through the hours and back to the time. Tap the date, weather, steps or battery to replay that row. Tap a departure row to open its complication.

ALWAYS-ON
The lights go out, leaving a dimmed clock, the date and your next departure with its countdown.

MAKE IT YOURS
• Station light: Daylight, Sodium, Night shift or Tungsten. Signal yellow stays signal yellow under every light.
• Board language: English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español or Nederlands, for the band, the day and month names, the weather words and the journey status.
• Journey timetable: Day 07:00-21:00, Early 06:00-20:00, Late 09:00-23:00 or No timetable.
• Board refresh on wrist raise: on or off.
• Two complication rows.
• 12-hour or 24-hour time follows your watch's setting.
• The settings follow your watch's language in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Requires Wear OS 6 or later (Watch Face Format 4).
• The calendar row needs your watch's calendar complication and its permission. Until your calendar has something to show, it reads NO TRAINS.
• The board prints a Latin flap alphabet: text in other scripts and emoji shows as blank flaps.
• Weather comes from your watch's own weather source. Where there is none, the board says so.
• The screenshots use example data for the rows. The clock, flaps and countdown are the real watch face.
• No ads.
• The phone app, Departures · Setup, is optional: it previews the face and helps you get it onto your watch. On the watch, hold the current face, choose Add watch face, then Departures. Menus vary by watch.