Desert Rising 3D Watch Face

The time rises out of the desert. Your watch becomes a window framed by a ring of weathered sandstone, and through it lie rolling dunes in a low sun. The hours stand far away as carved sandstone digits, half-buried in the sand and hazy with distance; the minutes have risen out of the sand right in front of the frame - big, leaning out toward you over the stone ring, sand pouring off their tops and their long shadows stretching across the dunes.

Digits that rise from the sand
Every new minute, the digit that changes rises out of the sand to its place, sand streaming off its top and sides. On the hour the hour digits rise too.

Tap for a gust
Tap the watch face and a gust drives a veil of blowing sand across the dunes. It happens by itself every hour too.

Three skies
- Sunset: orange dunes, golden light on the stone and long violet shadows.
- Day: pale sand in bright light, deep shade on the digits' sides.
- Night: silver-blue dunes under the moon, cool moonlight on the stone.

Readings carved in stone
The date is carved into the sandstone ring at the top; unread notifications, steps and battery are carved into small stone tablets half-buried in the sand. Put another app's complication there and it shows that app's icon; set a slot to Empty and its tablet goes away.

Easy on the battery
Nothing moves between minutes; a digit's rise plays for about a second, the gust only on a tap and on the hour. Always-on shows only the outlines of the digits and the ring's edge, dim on black.

Make it yours
- Sky: sunset, day or night.
- Three complications.
- 12- or 24-hour time, as your watch is set.

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

Works on watches with Wear OS 6 or later. Made in Watch Face Format: no permissions, no data collected. The phone app is optional: it shows the watch face and opens it in Google Play on your watch.

Part of Tempus Arcanum, a collection of watch faces.