Jindaiko Japanese Watch Face

WabiFace Jindaiko brings the beaten gold of a Japanese war drum to your Wear OS smartwatch.

🥁 THE WAR DRUM
A jindaiko was carried onto the field and struck to move an army. Its head is a disc of brass, raised under the hammer until the whole surface is a field of facets, then gilded, ringed in black lacquer, inlaid with gold scrollwork and studded with domed copper rivets. Age has left heat-tint and rust across the gold and indigo silk at the foot. This dial is that drum head, kept whole.

✨ THE RUNNING LIGHT
A highlight travels the lacquer rim, one full lap every minute, lighting the gold scrollwork and the rivet heads as it passes. It tells you the seconds the way a turning drum tells you where the light is, and it can be switched off for a still dial.

⌚ THREE OPENINGS
Three openings are cut through the head, each ringed in applied gold, and each holds a complication. Every one of them draws a progress ring around its well whenever the data source reports a goal. Battery does this out of the box; assign a step goal or an exercise ring and those fill too.

🕐 THE TIME
The middle of the head is bare metal, so the hour and minute take all of it: a very large reading set in a serif, cut into the gold the way an inlay would be, with the seconds tucked underneath. Both can be turned off.

📅 THE CALENDAR
Month and date over the weekday, set down in the notch between the two lower openings, in the bright half of the inlay so it answers the time rather than competing with it.

🎨 FOUR PLATE METALS
Shinchu (brass), Akagane (red copper), Shirogane (white bronze) and Aogane (green bronze). Only the hammered field changes: the lacquer rim, the rivets, the applied bezels and the three wells stay exactly as they were struck.

🪜 THREE INLAYS, IN PAIRS
Kuro-urushi with gilt, Tame-nuri with rose gold, and Konjo with pale silver. Each choice is a pair, because the dial has two grounds: the dark half is cut into the bright gold plate, the bright half is set into the shaded wells. One choice moves the time, the calendar, the seconds, the complication text and the goal rings together, the way a single craftsman would have cut them all.

🌙 AMBIENT MODE
The gold hoop and the three bezels stay as thin lit rings with the time redrawn above them in the bright inlay, so the drum is still recognisable at a glance while the display is dimmed.

🎴 DETAILS
- A hammered gilt ground kept at full resolution, heat-tint and rust included
- A black lacquer rim with gold scrollwork and domed copper rivets
- Three openings with applied gold bezels, each a complication with a goal ring
- Indigo silk at the foot of the plate

🎴 MORE FROM WABIFACE
Kyoto, our free Japanese watch face: https://play.viewpro.live/store/apps/details?id=jp.wabiface.kyoto

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

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

Artwork created with AI assistance and reviewed by the developer.

Please check your watch OS version before purchasing.

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Website: https://wabiface.jp