Flipper Pro Watch Face

A vintage instrument panel with a split-flap clock, built like a 1950s gauge cluster.

A split-flap flip clock fills the left of the face, hours and minutes on stacked cards with the hinge gap running through them, the weekday and date on an enamel bar beneath with the day number on a red inlay and the month on an ivory plaque. A seconds sub-dial counts the minute out beside them, graduations relighting as it fills - switch it off if you would rather have the quiet face.

Around the rim, two graduated gauges track what matters: step goal above, battery below, each with a 0-100 scale and a fine needle, and a red low-battery zone on the lower one. Four windows carry steps, chance of rain, unread notifications and heart rate, labelled in curved type that follows the dial. Current temperature sits in the recessed centre well with a weather glyph beside it - sun, moon, or either behind cloud, by day or by night.

THE LOOK

The dial is built like an old instrument panel: aged enamel gauge faces with printed scales, set behind a ribbed black crinkle-finish fascia with polished trim rings, painted labels and slotted screws. Everything casts its own shadow - the fascia into the gauges, the flip cards onto the panel. Every colour below is rendered in that finish, white as old ivory.

Twenty-four combinations of card and gauge colour, each rendered as the real material.

BUILT SO IT CANNOT LOOK WRONG

Only the surfaces are settable. Every ink and needle is matched to the colour you pick - cream print on the dark enamels, black on the light ones, light digits on dark cards and dark on ivory. There is no combination of settings that produces text you cannot read, which is the reason the palette is a list rather than a colour wheel.

Always-on is a separate dimmed frame: the clock and date alone on black.

SETTINGS

Flip clock and date colour: slate, black or white. The four data windows follow it.

Gauge colour: gold, white, orange, red, purple, magenta, blue or green.

Clock size: standard, or maximum to fill the flip cards.

Seconds dial: on or off.

Weather: show or hide the temperature and weather icon.

Temperature units: follow your phone, Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Time format follows your watch's own 12/24-hour setting. Weather readings need weather on your watch; until it arrives they show dashes.