▶ Retro Watch Complication

It's not a
watch face.
It's a fully
functional
LCD watch.

Timekeeping. World time. 5 alarms. Stopwatch. Countdown. All driven from compatible WFF watch faces, all running on your wrist. The retro digital watch you remember — except this one keeps your appointments.

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▶ Important transmission

A word of caution

This app is half of a system. It does nothing on its own. Without a compatible watch face, the complications will sit there waiting for buttons that aren't drawn anywhere.

Compatible faces only

Retro Watch Complication only works as part of a watch face that has retro-style A/B/C/D buttons drawn around the screen and wired to send taps to this app.

Generic watch faces with a complication slot will not work. The list of compatible watch faces is below. If yours isn't there, this app won't help you.

▶ How it works

Two halves. One retro watch.

The buttons live on the watch face. The logic, the alarms, the audio, and the state machine live in this app. They communicate through Wear OS complication taps. Both halves have to be installed for anything to function.

Install this app

Retro Watch Complication goes onto your watch like any other Wear OS app. It's free. It does nothing yet.

Install a compatible face

Pick a watch face from the list below. The face has retro-style buttons drawn around the LCD screen.

Assign the complications

On the watch face, set each complication slot to the matching Retro Watch Complication entry. Tap a button. The watch comes alive.

▶ What it adds

A fully functional LCD watch

Modeled on the multi-mode digital watches of the 80s and 90s — the kind with a handful of buttons doing context-specific work depending on which mode you were in. All five modes, all the buttons, all running on your wrist.

▶ 01 · TIMEKEEPING

Hours, minutes, seconds

Local time with weekday and date. Press B to flip date order, D to swap 12 / 24-hour.

▶ 02 · WORLD TIME

Any city, on the wrist

Pick a city; the secondary display shows its local time alongside yours. Press D to cycle cities, B to step back. Useful for calls, traveling, knowing if it's too early to text mom.

▶ 03 · FIVE ALARMS

Independent daily slots

Five separate alarm times, each on or off, each with its own audio + vibration profile. When one fires, tap anywhere on the watch or press any hardware button to dismiss. Auto-stops after 20 seconds.

AL 1 AL 2 AL 3 AL 4 AL 5

▶ 04 · STOPWATCH

Hundredths under the hour

Press D to start. A to split — display freezes while the count continues underneath. A again to release. Sub-hour shows MM:SS with hundredths; past one hour switches to HH:MM:SS. Auto-stops at 24 hours.

▶ 05 · COUNTDOWN

Up to 23:59:59

Press A to set. C cycles between hours, minutes, and seconds; B and D step the active digit group up and down; A again to save. Press D to start. At zero, your chosen alert fires.

▶ 06 · CUSTOMIZE

Set once, then forget

12 or 24-hour display. Date order, leading zeros, weekday format. Disable modes you don't use. Audio and vibration feedback. Hourly chime. Per-button beep on or off. All in the companion app.

▶ On video

Watch the reels

Two short reels — a full features walkthrough and a quick complication setup. Tap to play. We don't load anything from Instagram until you do.

▶ Pair with

Compatible watch faces

Watch faces designed to drive Retro Watch Complication. Without one of these, the app is just a settings screen.

CELEST

CELEST5662 Retro Digital Watch

A digital watch face styled after the multi-mode LCD watches of the 80s and 90s. Ten background-and-ink colorways. A/B/C/D buttons drawn around the screen, each wired to the Retro Watch Complication app. Companion app gives you alarms, chime, stopwatch, countdown, and world time on the face.

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▶ CELEST5662 — colorways