Headless Coachman Watch Face

At midnight on Halloween a coach made from a giant carved pumpkin stands on a foggy road in a dead forest, glowing from within. A headless coachman holds a flaming jack-o'-lantern high, and two gaunt black horses with ember eyes stamp in the harness. A cold moon hangs over the twisted trees.

Wheel, numerals, or both
- The coach's big rear wheel is the clock: twelve spokes for the twelve hours, brass rivets at the hours and thin brass hands turning on its hub.
- Glowing numerals in the night sky over the coach, in the colour of the fire; the hour follows your watch's 12- or 24-hour setting.
- By default you get both at once.

Your information is on the coach
Your steps are engraved on the brass medallion on the near horse's harness, your unread notifications written on the luggage tag hanging from the trunk, and your battery engraved on the brass plate under the coach's lantern. The day and the date are on the plate of the coachman's seat.

What moves
- Each minute the fire inside the coach gutters, a puff of breath streams from the horse's nostrils and the minute hand jolts on.
- On the hour the great wheel spins a full turn, throwing sparks along the road, and the coach blazes up.
- Tap the coachman and he tosses his flaming jack-o'-lantern into the air and catches it. Tap the wheel and it spins.
- On Halloween night, from 6 pm to 6 am, a swarm of bats streams out of the forest every quarter hour, and from midnight to one the coach burns ghost-green.
- In always-on mode the coach turns to a dark silhouette; only its faint glow, the wheel and hands or the numerals, the date, your steps and your battery stay lit, to save power.

Make it yours
- Time: wheel and numerals, wheel only, or numerals only.
- Fire: candle gold, ghost green, spirit blue or ember red; the coach's glow, its light on the road and the numerals take the same colour.
- Lantern toss on waking: the coachman also tosses his lantern each time your watch wakes (off by default).
- Three complications on the horse brass, the luggage tag and the lantern plate: steps, unread notifications and battery by default. Choose other data for any of them in the watch face editor.

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: nothing to install on your phone, no permissions, no data collected.

Part of Tempus Arcanum, a collection of animated watch faces.