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Indoors Daylight

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ·

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Painting

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Cover Contain

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Frame

None Gold Wood Gallery

Color tuning Adjusts colors for how the watch screen looks in that light.

Accurate Daylight Indoors Backlight

Advanced color settings

Dithering How the 64 watch colors are mixed to show the painting’s shades.

Atkinson 50:50 Off

Brightness 0 Contrast 0

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Collection Featured: the 365 Rijksmuseum paintings most read about on Wikipedia, one for each day of the year. Selection: any painting, optionally from one century.

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Pin a specific painting Search by title or artist, or enter an object number (SK-C-5) or a link. Pinning turns rotation off.

Date & time

Show time

Clock format

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Date format

Day Day first Month first

Separator

Hyphen Slash Dot

Position & size

Top Center Bottom

Left Center Right

S M L

Auto hide The painting stays clear; flick your wrist to show the time. Show for minute Improve readability A dark box behind the time and date.

Utilities

Tour A short walk past the main settings.

Backup

Copy a backup Your settings and the looks you saved per painting live only on this phone, and are gone if you remove the watchface. Copy them and keep the text somewhere safe, for example in a note or an email to yourself.

Restore a backup Paste a backup here, check the preview, then save to your watch.

Debug

Actions run on the phone: the page closes and the phone does it.

Phone state

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Paintings, images and data: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, through the Rijksmuseum data services. Only works in the public domain or under an open Creative Commons license are shown, following the museum’s information and data policy.

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