Saturday 28 May 2016

Top 10 WatchMaker Faces

My top 10 Watchmaker faces for Smart Watches running Android Wear

The Watchmaker community on Google+ is the number one place to find the widest range of watch faces for your Android Smart Watch

Having been a member since I got my Moto360 just before Christmas 2015, I've witnessed the community growing with increasing speed. Fast enough for me to realise that that we are just at the beginning of what is possible.

The range of talent covers the entire spectrum, from very green beginners to top notch photoshop wizards. As I write, there must be 10s of thousands of watch faces available to download and use. Personally, I have close to 1000 stored in my Dropbox, and choosing 10 favourites is no easy task.

The generosity of these members always staggers me, and picking 10 from all the talent is in no way suggesting that others designers not on my list are not good - they are, just in a different ways and will appeal to different people for different reasons.

And talking about generosity, nearly all the following watches have hands created by +Terry Zahn, and can be found on his website www.watchawear.com  - A website dedicated to all things Watchmaker (more about that later)

I've made my selection based purely on personal preferences like readability and the general beauty of the face.
 
10.
Swiss Military Hanowa


https://plus.google.com/113203464879831013676/posts/5YKHM8E3nim

Antonio has listed many watch faces, but this stands out for me as his best


9.
+Nite Owl
Tag Heuer Monaco




 https://plus.google.com/114888952795945336331/posts/JVetabqaQwU

A classic and superbly replicated by the very talented Nite Owl for both round and square watch faces - Stunning



8.
+artur r
Hexagen Brown



https://plus.google.com/108538252393285313689/posts/75hKkJVw5eS

One the most prolific watchmakers in the community, Artur can churn 3 or 4 beauties a day. And most of them originals under his Hexagen Brand - I like this because I'm a sucker for a brown face


7.
+Bob George
Anonochron Affinity




https://plus.google.com/108040409727104884233/posts/N8U5Sxwo6U9

Bob produces some of the most customisable watches, giving the wearer the choice of colour themes, percentage of dim level, day colours, night colours, high contrast bright light modes. One of the talented coders

6.
+sunthorn ingersoll
Ingersoll Deco



















https://plus.google.com/112169360358050407628/posts/6m798KqtSxa

Sunthorn makes a great many watches (lots of hand drawn Disney replicas) and most come with a history too. This is one of his earlier designs and doesn't really do justice to how good he now is, but I love this for its simplicity and easy time telling


5.
+Ralf ter Veer 
flieger bmuster pilot v4


https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106982503578105386202/s/flieger%20bmuster%20pilot%20v4

A stunning recreation of the original WW2 watches, that have been emulated and "improved" on by every watch company out there. But this labour of love with true to life night dim modes adjusted for time of night is the best I've seen


4.
+Milan PRIBULA
SEIKO SNKN37






https://plus.google.com/114810363052631300685/posts/exSKvb3svgw

Milan creates some of the most detailed replicas you will ever see, this piece of magic was made entirely in the watchmaker app - the guys a genius !



3.
+JC Dalisay
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Chocolate



https://plus.google.com/113800064592798450390/posts/SHXae6sA124

Highly detailed, with a beautiful dim and looking incredible on the wrist - JC is a photoshop master




2.
+Nite Owl
Graham Chronofighter





https://plus.google.com/114888952795945336331/posts/X6UtkJXiTLG

Another from Nite Owl - Beautiful

1.
+JC Dalisay
Rolex Explorer Baselworld 2016



https://plus.google.com/113800064592798450390/posts/5suBJ35GGEv

I wear this the most, it is beautiful in its simplicity and exquisite execution. And changed my opinion of Rolex forever


What do you need to get access to all these faces
      1. An android Smart Watch
      2. The Watchmaker Premium app available in the Play store

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