I haven’t posted anything here for a long time, so here’s another inspiration from Timex mechanics. Inspired by the Timex Intelligent quartz watch.
After clicking on the center of the dial, a hand is added or changed that shows the compass or temperature or tides. There is another button in the +0 area for the tide, which adjusts the tide according to your needs.
So again, I’ll ask for opinions and criticism.
I didn’t want to deal with 3D graphics, so I took it my own way and made it in the AMOLED or Material style, I don’t know what you call it.
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Nice Work. I call it an OLED style. There are many technologies used in these displays but OLED and LCD are the two main groups these days.
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Looks great and I like the functionality - I would delete the references to Timex in the text before you publish so as to not upset Marvin
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Nice! 
but yes agreed best to avoid any copyright issues 
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I checked if there are any watch faces with the name Timex and there are a lot of them, I have several versions of one watch face where the description also says it is inspired by Timex, I have had it for 5 years. So maybe it wouldn’t be a problem with Marvin.
but thanks for the warning. I already have a copy.
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After a few hours of testing, I feel like the hexagon background is too prominent and it’s actually a distracting element and reduces sensitivity. Can anyone please confirm or deny this?
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Marvin is a bit more awake these days so it’s good to duplicate before publishing.
I have trouble seeing the small stuff anyway so a little extra texture is not really an issue for me. Something that gives a bit of style is important.
Maybe you fixed it already but I don’t see any hexagons.
Also I think that the hour and minute hands are not always above the scales
This one is definitely one that I will download - i like it’s style.
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Well, the transparency was set to 13, I reduced it to 12. That’s not that big of a difference. What do you mean by the hand above the scale, I’m sorry, I don’t speak English and I let Google translate, which sometimes The translation doesn’t make sense, so it’s hard to know what exactly is meant. Otherwise, I’m glad you like the design.
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No need to be sorry about language here - we’re an international forum. I had another look at the hour and minute hands- perhaps they are semi-transparent but it looks to me that some of the text is on a layer above the hands and that looks a bit strange to me.
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Yes, they are transparent so that the functional compass needle or temperature and tide pointer stand out for each function. It’s on purpose.In normal time, they are also transparent because of the date so that the date is visible even when the hand is above it. That’s why it gives the feeling that the text is above the hands. It’s intentional for readability.
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Hmmm - ok looks a bit strange to me but ok, I’ll still be downloading it!
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Yes, it’s an unusual solution, but since I didn’t use any shading on the hands and they tend to match the text above the date, I solved it this way. I could have moved the date a little, you know, so that it would line up with where the hand is with the hole, but that would have disrupted the overall design concept, I think.
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Maybe only make the hands semi transparent only when over the date?
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@ekky.mi . On Version Two you could start with more VAR in the template and Have a Tap in the centre to make the Clock hands 33% opacity . I did that on my personal face . You could then have the tap to change the hands to compass etc at 6 where their legend is . I would then have the tide adjustments at 4 and 8 . I hope you know what I mean .
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I know what you’re both thinking, but that would be too much coding. I also thought about making it transparent only from - to, but the result would be the same in the mixture.
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For the rare occasion the hands would obstruct the date or other data below, you could make them go from full opaque to semitransparent by tap and back to full opaque few seconds after that.
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Also an interesting solution, but it requires another tap, touch on the display.
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The coding would not be anything dramatic.
Like you used $(#VAR_1#%4)==2?100:0$ for selecting one of the modes.
Then you could substitute the 100 by something like (clamp(#VAR_3_TE#/50,30,100))
The higher number in place of 50, the longer would the hand go semitransparent.
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