LAB/005 · Watch faces · 2026
SelectedFaces.
Ten Apple Watch faces, running live on one clock and one simulated health feed.
The shortlist
The future has a face. Ten faces. Zero limits. Designed by JB. Built as prototypes. Running live on watchOS.Time, reimagined.
Turn the crown
Twelve / Six, Split Band
Vertical axis with the middle band divided: time on the left, a two-by-two vitals block on the right.
Twelve / Six
The same idea rotated onto the vertical axis. Time runs across the middle band with two vitals flanking it and two tracked down the sides.
Corners
The four figures pushed off the axes into the corners, freeing a clean cross for time and vitals.
Stencil
Only the hour's own numeral is drawn, at full height. The other three shrink to a tracked footer, waiting their turn.
Boxed Cardinals
Each figure sits in a hairline cell, the active one's border going lime. Vitals share the centre cell with the time.
Register
The strongest of the nine. Sitting still lets the strata drift apart; walking pulls them into register. Movement is what makes the watch readable.
Decode
The time is never printed — it resolves out of a field of glyphs and starts dissolving again.
Remaining
An inverse clock: it tells you what is left of the hour, not what has passed.
Transport
The whole hour scrolls past a fixed index; the present is simply what sits under it.
Spoken
Time as language, not numerals — the sentence rewrites itself word by word.
Anatomy of a face
Every layer,alive.
9·B Twelve / Six, taken apart while it keeps time.
- 08BandSport band, fading into the page
- 07Case + crownThe crown turns the faces
- 06OLEDTrue black, so the edges disappear
- 05HairlinesTwo rules frame the time
- 04NumeralsThe hour fills in, the rest go hollow
- 03Time + vitalsSteps, kcal, km and sleep, live
- 02SecondsThe acid mark ticks once a second
- 01GlassCatches the light as you move
All ten · live
Side by side.
Tap a face to put it on the watch.
Vertical axis with the middle band divided: time on the left, a two-by-two vitals block on the right.
The same idea rotated onto the vertical axis. Time runs across the middle band with two vitals flanking it and two tracked down the sides.
The four figures pushed off the axes into the corners, freeing a clean cross for time and vitals.
Only the hour's own numeral is drawn, at full height. The other three shrink to a tracked footer, waiting their turn.
Each figure sits in a hairline cell, the active one's border going lime. Vitals share the centre cell with the time.
The strongest of the nine. Sitting still lets the strata drift apart; walking pulls them into register. Movement is what makes the watch readable.
The time is never printed — it resolves out of a field of glyphs and starts dissolving again.
An inverse clock: it tells you what is left of the hour, not what has passed.
The whole hour scrolls past a fixed index; the present is simply what sits under it.
Time as language, not numerals — the sentence rewrites itself word by word.
