Byobu Japanese Watch Face

WabiFace Byobu brings the gold of a Japanese folding screen to your Wear OS smartwatch.

🏯 A SCREEN OF GOLD LEAF
A byobu is the folding screen that stands in a Japanese room: squares of beaten gold leaf, the fold running down the middle, and a painted subject set against all that open gold. Here it becomes a dial, with two torn openings cut through the leaf to the movement behind.

⚙️ THE MOVEMENT BEHIND
Five wheels turn continuously behind the openings, each at its own rate. Two of them are a true 3:1 pair, so they turn against each other the way meshed wheels must. Ruby jewels sit on the pivots.

🎨 THREE SCREENS
Kinpaku gold leaf, Ginpaku silver leaf, and Kodai aged gold. The whole face is re-leafed, not just an accent.

🖌️ FOUR PAINTED SUBJECTS
Choose the painting on the open leaf, in the manner of screen painting: cherry blossom for spring, wisteria for summer, maple for autumn, snow laden pine for winter. Or leave the gold bare.

🕰️ HANDS IN THREE METALS
Kin gold, Gin silver, Akagane copper. Each carries a sumi keyline so it stays readable over the leaf, and a smooth sweeping seconds hand.

📅 DAY AND DATE
A window at 2 o'clock shows the short weekday over the day number, in your watch's own language. It can be switched off.

⌚ COMPLICATIONS
Two bezelled wells, at 1 and 7 o'clock, set point symmetrically about the centre.
- Step count (upper) and battery (lower) to begin with, both changeable
- Short text, ranged value, icon or small image
- Size Large, Medium, Small, or off entirely
- Four inks to write them in: Sumi black, Ai indigo, Shu vermilion, Rokusho verdigris

🌙 AMBIENT MODE
The gold rests and the wheels stop. Only the hands and twelve hour bars stay lit, on true black, so the always-on view stays dark and quiet.

🌸 ABOUT WABIFACE
WabiFace is a collection of watch faces celebrating Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi, mono no aware, and the dignified passage of time.

Artwork created with AI assistance and reviewed by the developer.
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google or Samsung.

Requires Wear OS 5 or later. Compatible with Pixel Watch, Galaxy Watch, and other Wear OS 5+ smartwatches.

Please check your watch OS version before purchasing.

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Website: https://wabiface.jp