Skeretron Watch Face

Skeretron is an analog watch face built as a skeleton chronograph: skeleton hands over two enamel gauges and a chapter ring, and through the ring a movement that turns while you watch.

WHAT IT SHOWS

- The time with skeleton hour and minute hands and a second hand, and written out in retro figures at six
- Heart rate on a needle gauge on the left
- Steps towards your daily goal on a needle gauge on the right, with the count on its cap
- The current weather icon and temperature
- The weekday, in your phone's language, and the day of the month
- One reading of your choice: notifications, watch battery, chance of rain or UV index

THE HANDS

The hours and minutes are skeleton sword hands in polished metal, open down their length so the dial shows through, with lume set into the rails and a solid arrow tip. A slim second hand with a counterweight steps round over them, and the exact time is written out at six o'clock, in 12 or 24-hour as your watch is set.

THE GAUGES

The gauge on the left is heart rate, on a scale from 0 to 250 with a coloured zone above 160. The gauge on the right is steps, on a scale from 0 to your daily goal with a zone over the last fifth. Each needle runs out from under a dark round cap that carries the reading itself, up to five-digit step counts.

THE MOVEMENT

Between the gauges, the chapter ring steps down through a minute ring and a polished lip into the movement: a turned barrel, a spoked wheel, a striped bridge with its screws and three meshing gears, which turn a little every second. The day of the month sits on a plaque on the bridge.

THE DIAL

Everything is rendered as material: matte enamel gauges in metal trims, a black bezel with a minute scale, polished and lumed hour markers, and ripples cut into the dial round the three circles over soft rays. The light falls from straight above, so every part casts the same even shadow all the way round.

Always-on keeps the gauges, the chapter ring with the movement, the hour markers and the bezel, dimmed, with the needles, the readings, the date and the hands, shifted a pixel each minute.

SETTINGS

Theme: Canyon (default), Moss, Dusk or Basalt. Burgundy with ochre and terracotta gauges and copper trim, green with cream and sage gauges and brass, navy with ochre and sky-blue gauges and steel, or graphite with orange and stone gauges and steel.

Top right: notifications (default), watch battery, chance of rain or UV index.

Temperature units: follow your phone, Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Second hand: on or off.