Nocturne Calendar

A closer look at the moon window.

The moon sits below the dial in a curved window at six. We built the window into the 3D model, giving it a sloping inner edge and shadows that show its depth.

The pale moon carries recognizable surface markings, with small constellations on either side. Stars continue across the rest of the dial in all six finishes: Midnight, Charcoal, Oxblood, Petrol, Amethyst, and Emerald.

Stars that catch the light.

While your watch is awake, a few of the brightest stars on the dial glint now and then, each for about half a second and on its own rhythm, like flecks catching the light. The rest of the dial stays still.

The glints are on by default. To turn them off, open the watch face’s settings and set Star glints to Off. They never appear on the dimmed always-on display.

How to read the date.

The two silver hands show the hour and minute. The slender gold-toned hand points to the date on the outer ring, where the matching number is highlighted. All 31 date numbers stay upright, starting with day one at twelve.

The date follows your watch’s calendar. At the end of a shorter month, the pointer moves straight to day one, so you don’t need to adjust it for February or leap years. Nocturne has no seconds hand.

How the moonphase display works.

A moonphase display shows how the moon’s appearance changes through its cycle. Nocturne uses eight phase categories supplied by Wear OS, from new moon through full moon and back again. The illustrated moon moves behind the curved window as the category changes.

At new moon it is hidden; at full moon the whole circle is visible. The stages between them show the moon growing and shrinking. These are eight illustrations, so the display doesn’t measure the exact age of the moon or the percentage lit.

You can choose a northern or southern hemisphere view, which mirrors the moon and its movement. You set this yourself; we don’t use your location. The gallery shows the same waxing-gibbous moon in every finish: more than half lit and growing toward full moon.

When the screen dims.

With your watch’s always-on setting enabled, the dimmed display shows the hour and minute hands, twelve hour markers, and a small numeric date above the center. The hands update once a minute. The stars and dial finish disappear, leaving a black background.

You can also keep a simple moon symbol visible in this mode. It’s off by default and follows the same moon phase and hemisphere setting when you turn it on.