Kozane Japanese Watch Face

WabiFace Kozane brings the quiet weight of Japanese armour to your Wear OS smartwatch.

🛡 KOZANE — THE SCALES
Kozane are the small lacquered scales a suit of armour is built from. Hundreds of them, each one pierced and laced to its neighbours with silk cord, until the rows become a single plate. This dial is one round fitting of that armour: black-urushi scales, cross-laced silk, three gilt bosses on karakusa rosettes, and a band of plain black leather across the middle.

⌚ THE LEATHER BAND
That band of hide is where the time goes. It is the one part of the plate an armourer left undecorated, so the hour sits on ground that was never carved. Month and day on the left, the hour at the centre, weekday and seconds on the right.

🎀 FIVE LACING SILKS
Choose the cord the plate is laced with: Hi (scarlet), Kon (indigo), Moegi (spring green), Murasaki (purple) or Shiro (white) — the colours an armourer actually worked in. Only the silk changes. The gilt bosses, the brocade fittings and the lacquer scales are the same in every one.

🪡 THREE INLAYS
The numerals can be cut in Kin (gold), Gin (silver) or Shu (vermilion). One choice drives the hour, the date and the complications together, the way one craftsman would have cut them all.

⌚ COMPLICATIONS
- Steps (upper left)
- Battery (upper right, with a ring that fills as the battery does)
- Heart rate (below)
- Two sizes, or hidden altogether

🌙 AMBIENT MODE
Optimised for always-on display. The scales fall away and the three rosettes, the two gilt fittings and the hour remain.

🎨 ELEGANT DETAILS
- Scales, silk and gilt taken from one photographic plate, not drawn as flat shapes
- The silk shows through the complication ports instead of being covered by them
- Seconds and the date can each be switched off for a quieter dial

🎴 MORE FROM WABIFACE
Kyoto, our free Japanese watch face: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.wabiface.kyoto

🌸 ABOUT WABIFACE
WabiFace is a collection of watch faces celebrating Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi, mono no aware, and the dignified passage of time.

Requires Wear OS 5 or later. Compatible with Pixel Watch, Galaxy Watch, and other Wear OS 5+ smartwatches.

Artwork created with AI assistance and reviewed by the developer.

Please check your watch OS version before purchasing.

For support: support@wabiface.jp
Website: https://wabiface.jp

Recent changes:
Companion for WabiFace Kozane.

Setup guide for the watch face, and how to redeem a promo code.