This vintage ‘Apple Watch’ face needs to exist

Apple has designed all sorts of Apple Watch faces in the 10+ years since the product launched. Still, there’s one face that Apple should build and release as soon as possible, please.

That face, of course, is the one from the “Apple” watch that predated Apple Watch by two decades. The anonymous X account that goes by the name System Settings has designed their take on how it could look:

I appreciate the blue bezel work on the version above.

Designer Minu Vi shared their own take on the same watch face previously on Dribbble:

Apple doesn’t support third-party watch faces, and the company definitely doesn’t support repurposing its IP like this. For that reason, Apple should seriously consider making its own special edition Apple Watch face inspired by the Macintosh System 7.5 souvenir timepiece.

For context, the analog watch was offered as a free add-on with the $134.99 copy of Macintosh System 7.5 in 1995. Customers could choose between the watch or a copy of Conflict Catcher 3, which has never inspired an Apple Watch face as far as I can tell.

Read more about the history of the 1995 vintage Apple watch from Hodinkee’s 2021 piece.

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