In 2025, Eric Migicovsky founded Core Devices and brought back the Pebble brand that he had launched in 2012 after a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. To learn more about Pebble, I invite you to read the article on Wikipedia.
The Pebble Time 2 was announced, followed by the Pebble Round 2. These are modern watches suited to the times, with a battery that can last several days on a single charge, one of the strengths of these new Pebble watches. Other strengths include open-source code, which means the whole community can take part in developing the software that runs them, as well as the large number of apps and watchfaces available, also created by the community.
I hadn’t worn a watch for more than 20 years, and I wondered whether wearing one again might interest me. I discovered Pebble and was charmed because there’s no need to recharge them every 2–3 days like Apple and Pixel watches, since the concept is different. What hooked me most was the ability to create watchfaces. It’s a mix of creativity and programming that I loved when I was younger, and today, with LLMs, better known as AI, it’s fairly easy to get back into it.
Here are the 3 watchfaces I’ve created so far:
Colorfully Alive
PLEASE NOTE: The animation you see was filmed from my actual watch (PT2) and is not from an emulator.
Colorfully Alive is a simple yet innovative and effective watchface that offers an easy-to-read time display with large digits that have independent, smooth dynamic thickness animations, making it feel alive.
With its mesmerizing color animations and visual effects, this watchface will turn heads. Expect compliments and curious glances.
Key features:
- Original interaction and configuration via flicks!
- Single-color mode and multicolor mode.
- Distinctive smooth centering animation when the digit “1” appears or disappears.
- Attractive colorful animation every minute, which ends with a new color (or new colors).
- Timeline Peek support.
- Bluetooth disconnect icon.
- Quiet Time icon.
- Animation stops from 0:00 to 06:00.
- Low battery mode (≤ 10%): two vibration pulses, light grayscale mode activated, flicks disabled, and tick updates reduced to minutes to save power.
- Critical battery (≤ 5%): display switches to fixed dark gray and all animations stop (time to charge!).
Flick interactions:
- A single flick activates the seconds display for six seconds.
- While seconds are displayed, a flick will shuffles the colors; then the seconds will blink for four seconds.
- While the seconds are blinking, a flick will makes the watch vibrate (confirmation pulse) and switches mode (single-color ↔ multicolor).
About battery usage:
There is no secret here, this watchface is called “Alive” for a reason: it’s animated every single second. I truly love this kind of watchface; it gives me a ‘wow’ moment every time I look at my watch. Charging once a week is really not an issue for me.
Complementary SquareAround
PLEASE NOTE: The animation you see was filmed from my actual watch (PT2) and is not from an emulator. What you’re seeing is sped up 24x, so you can see all six combinations in 15 seconds.
Complementary SquareAround is a no bells and whistles watchface. TIME, BIG, COLORFUL, but with a twist!
With 3 primary colors and their 3 complementary colors for the digits and background, you’ll see the time cycle through a total of 6 combinations. Each moving digit casts a shadow outward from the center point.
Here’s the twist! Each digit moves one step every second, making a full 60-step clockwise tour around the display. One digit is either black or white, and that’s where you read the time going clockwise. Someone could be mesmerized looking at your watch trying to figure out what time it is. Here’s your chance to talk about your Pebble watch.
Key features:
- Timeline Peek support.
- Bluetooth disconnect icon.
- Quiet Time icon.
- The SquareAround animation stops from 0:00 to 06:00 and only update every minute.
Skinny Wobbly Glitchy
PLEASE NOTE: The animation you see was filmed from my actual watch (PT2) and is not from an emulator. To my knowledge, I am the only one not using the emulator to showcase a watchface. Does it look any better to you? Please let me know!
You’ll agree with me, the name says a lot! You get tall and skinny wobbly segmented digits, with a scan bar crossing over them, displayed on a malfunctioning screen with 7 different glitches.
Select the mode you prefer!
If you enjoy animated watchfaces like I do, you’ll get all the effects this watchface offers in its original mode. Every second, you’ll see the digits wobble and change height, and the display will glitch randomly every 15-25 seconds.
If charging once a week isn’t your thing, you can enable minute-only updates and still see glitches glitches randomly every 15-25 seconds, but height, wobble, and scanline will update every minute, so it will takes longer for the display to look different.
Key features:
- Timeline Peek support.
- Bluetooth disconnect: digits turn blue.
- Quiet Time: digits appear in grayscale.
- Animation stops from 0:00 to 06:00.
Options:
- Minute-only updates mode: height, wobble and scanline occur only on minute changes.
- Thicker mode: segments are 1px thicker.
P.S. Same Easter Egg in all my watchfaces. Let me know when you spot it!
If you like any of these watchfaces, any amount helps me know: https://paypal.me/Rhialto
