A tribute to the black Moonshine Gold chronograph of the space collection, rebuilt as a standalone Wear OS watch face: a black dial under a black tachymeter bezel, white printing, and one hand in gold.
THE GOLD HAND
Only the central seconds hand is gold. The hours, the minutes, the register hand and the cap over its pivot are neutral silver, and every printed mark on the dial is white. One warm line sweeping across a cold black dial is the whole idea of this colorway.
Worth knowing before you buy: the seconds hand goes out in always-on mode, the way the running hand does on any watch face meant to last the night. The gold is a daytime thing.
THREE REGISTERS
This is a chronograph-STYLE tribute, not a working stopwatch. There is nothing to start and nothing to stop:
• At 6, on the register with the printed 60 scale: the running seconds, sweeping in step with the central seconds hand rather than ticking a second behind it
• At 10 and at 2: the two side registers. You choose what they hold
CHRONOGRAPH OR HEALTH
The two side registers do one of two jobs, and you pick which one in the editor:
• Chronograph: both hands parked at 12, the way a chronograph sits when it is not running. Three matching registers, one of them alive
• Health: your heart rate at 10 and your step count at 2, printed in the same white ink as the rest of the dial
HEART RATE AND STEPS, READ FROM THE WATCH
Both figures are real readings. Steps are shortened past a thousand, so 8432 shows as 8k and always fits its register. When there is no fresh heart rate reading the face draws a dash, not a zero: a zero next to a heart would be a lie.
CLASSIC OR DIAL
Every look comes in two views:
• Classic: the whole watch, with the outer TACHYMETRE bezel around the dial
• Dial: a bezel-free view, zoomed so the printed dial runs right to the edge of the screen
FOUR STYLES
Two contents, times two views. All four sit in one list: one tap sets both.
ALWAYS-ON DISPLAY, AND THIS IS THE BRIGHTEST ONE WE HAVE MADE
Most watch faces go black in ambient mode and leave you two floating hands. This one keeps the watch: the dial, the bezel, the applied markers, the printed minute track and all three registers stay, dimmed, with the hands lit on top.
A black dial is the cheapest thing a watch face can leave lit, and this is the blackest one we have. Wear OS allows an ambient screen up to 15 per cent of full brightness and this one measures 12, but it gets there having dimmed the dial far less than any of its sisters: at night you can still read the tachymeter numerals around the bezel and the 60 scale in the register at 6, instead of a grey smudge. What goes out is only what runs, because that is what costs battery: the sweeping seconds and the three register hands.
MORE
• Central hours and minutes with softly cast shadows, and no complications to fill in
• Standalone: no phone or companion app required
• Built with Watch Face Format for smooth performance and long battery life
NOTHING TO GRANT
You are not asked for any permission. Heart rate and steps are read by the Wear OS watch face runtime, not by this face, which carries no code of its own.
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE
Long-press your current watch face and tap Edit, or open it from the picker, then pick one of the four styles.
COMPATIBILITY
Wear OS 5 and later, round displays. No blend modes are used, so it is not limited to 5.1 and runs on more Wear OS 5 devices.
Note for dual-chip watches (OnePlus Watch 3 and similar): their Power Saver mode only runs the manufacturer's own built-in faces, so any third-party face works in Smart mode only, and the watch warns you when you apply it.
Disclaimer: This is an unofficial, fan-made watch face created by an independent developer. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OMEGA or Swatch. All trademarks and brand names belong to their respective owners and are used only to describe the design that inspired this tribute.
Black fan chronograph with a GOLD seconds hand: pulse, steps and always-on dial