Who watches the Watchmen? Now you do - every time you check the time.
Falling Smiley Live is an animated watch face after the most famous opening in comics: the Comedian's yellow smiley badge, a drop of blood on its brow, falling from a broken window into the city night far below.
• The badge drops into a jagged hole in the shattered glass, hangs there a moment - then falls away, tumbling end over end, its steel back and pin flashing past, smaller and smaller until it is gone into the dark. Then it comes again.
• Real 3D: the light slides across the domed button as it turns, catching its rolled edge
• Shards of the window turn and glint as they fall beside it, and flecks of glass stream away below
• The cracked glass sits over the whole scene, as if your own screen took the hit
• The city at night out of focus far below: lit windows, the street in teal, pink street lamps
Everything you need at a glance:
• The date and a tall, bold clock in the badge's yellow, following your 12/24-hour setting
• Today's steps, your battery level and your heart rate - the battery turns blood red when it runs low
• A step goal ring around the edge, in the same yellow, filling up as you walk
Make it yours: press and hold the watch face, tap Customize, and switch the step goal ring off - or back on.
In always-on mode the badge comes to rest and only the clock stays lit, dimmed and gently shifting position to protect your screen.
Made for fans of Watchmen, the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - for everyone who has followed Rorschach's journal through the rain, watched Doctor Manhattan on Mars, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre back in costume and Ozymandias at his Antarctic fortress, and who remembers Edward Blake, the Comedian, and the badge that started it all. The Doomsday Clock is ticking: wear it.
Requires Wear OS 5 or later.
Unofficial fan-made design; not affiliated with or endorsed by DC, Warner Bros., Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons or any rights holder.
The Comedian's bloodied smiley badge falls through shattered glass. Live.