ART'EDGE Watch is a free clock that takes over the whole browser window, with six watch faces to choose between. It needs no account and no install, and it was built for the screen nobody is using — an old tablet on a shelf, a second monitor, a phone propped against a lamp — where a clock is the only thing that needs to be there and it may as well be worth looking at.
Pick Digital if the clock has a job to do: it is one enormous readout and the only face legible from across a room. Pick Analog or Big if you want something that reads as a clock, at two very different levels of restraint. Pick Sigil, Radio or Orbit if you want the time told a stranger way — four turning rings, a tuning dial, or four numerals and almost nothing else.
They are genuinely different readings of the time rather than six skins on one dial. Whichever you choose is remembered on that device, so the app opens on it next time.
Most faces carry a movement as well as a shape. Quartz steps the hand once a second, Mechanical sweeps it at ten steps a second, Orbit adds Dots that pulses instead of travelling, and on Analog, Strings replaces the hands with ropes that swing and settle under a physics solver. Digital is the one face with no movement setting, because it has no hand to move.
A theme picker sets the background — light, dark, or one of three muted colours — and the browser chrome follows it. There is a full-screen button, and the app can be installed to a home screen. Nothing here costs anything and there is no account to make.
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