Download Clockology Watch Faces !EXCLUSIVE!
Derick Duggins
Below, you'll find some easy-to-follow steps for those getting started, as well as a couple of neat tricks to get the faces to essentially act as your default. We've also picked out some of our favorite faces - complete with links - to save you from scouring the library of options.
While you can easily set the app up to act as your watch face - and we cover this in detail below - a press of the Digital Crown will still transport you straight back to your home screen just as it would with any app.
Unlike Apple's own watch faces, there also aren't true dimmed versions of these faces for when your wrist is idle. You may get a blurred-out watch face with a digital time in the top corner if your watch is capable of remaining always on, but that's about it.
Given the fact that you're going to have to sync this watch faces over from downloads to the Clockology app and then over to your Apple Watch, things aren't as straightforward as you may be used to if you're coming from the Watch app.
You're then ready to start exploring the thousands of watch faces available to you. Since there's no search function within the app itself, you'll have to scour social media platforms for some favorites (or check out our list below).
When met with the image of your downloaded watch face, simply tap the watch icon on the right side. You'll then be prompted to continue the action on the Apple Watch Clockology app. Open it, and then simply wait a few seconds for it to magically appear on your wrist.
Having all these fancy watch faces on your wrist is all well and good, but it's not an especially useful app if you keep the default setting of returning to the Apple Watch home screen after a couple of minutes.
Another really handy thing to set up is a Clockology complication on your Apple Watch home screen. This means you can jump straight back into the comfort of those new watch faces if your watch does happen to return to type (or you press the Digital Crown out of habit).
You can create a Clockology complication from the Apple Watch itself, too. Simply long-press your standard watch face, tap 'Edit' and then follow the prompts to customize a Clockology widget into a place of your choosing.
Back in an age when the idea of an Apple smartwatch felt like the work of fantasy, there was the iPod. Fast-forward to now, and you can relive the beauty and simplicity of that monochrome display - personalized with your steps and distance for the day, as well as the current time and date. There's also a current heart rate reading, but you'll have to pay for a subscription to gain weather insights.
There was a time when rumors consistently swirled around the idea of a Swatch smartwatch. Years on from those whispers, the Swiss company still hasn't entered the space. However, you can get the next best thing with this imagined Swatch watch face, which provides a really nice ticking mechanism and not much else.
If the iPod watch face shown above isn't enough of a throwback for you, try this retro styling on for size. Featuring the old-school Apple logo, the '1984' and 'Think different' details, your up-to-date activity stats, and the time and date, there's plenty to enjoy here.
Forget about the hype of the Omega x Swatch partnership - install this crisp Omega Speedmaster recreation, instead. This one's available in plenty of different color backgrounds as standard, and you can also customize the layers yourself to change the basics. It also boasts a smooth second-ticking motion, as well as a neat moon phase complication.
Another bit of 90s nostalgia here. We've seen plenty of clever types customizing the sprites on show here, but this Pokemon-themed watch face comes with Gengar and Nidorino as standard. Instead of the usual battle screen, though, the time, day, and date are neatly spread throughout the face, as well as battery details and your step count.
Who said that Apple Watch Ultra owners get to that fancy outdoor watch face all to themselves, hey? Not Clockology users, that's for sure. With this one, you get a really nice recreation of the Ultra's exclusive standard face, complete with up-to-date details on your Activity Rings, battery, the time, UVI and more. The coordinates appear to be pre-set for somewhere in California, mind.
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