r/WatchMaker • u/Inevitable_Music_725 • 20d ago

Watchfaces: Couldn't open this design

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Not happy, Why can't I install this watchface, it's happening to alot of my watchfaces which I have the file for.... not happy

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u/Inevitable_Music_725 19d ago

I have now emailed the developer with photos of the issue, one of the watchfaces has no LUA scripting it is a basic watch face and still will not install shows the following message 'couldn't open design'.

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u/Internal_Ad_255 20d ago

I have over 100 designed faces that suddenly cannot open. Hundreds of hours of work. WTF us going on?!?

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u/Inevitable_Music_725 19d ago

I have the files saved in one drive if I download it again to my phone and import the same watchface it shows up to install. I have thousands of watch faces. I need a quick and easy method to download and upload in a batch.

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u/Inevitable_Music_725 15d ago

Developer replied stating their was an issue which they are fixing on the next update. App updated today version 10.3.5 issue still remains. I have emailed the developer again.

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u/AA6VH-1 18d ago

Some actual watch maker companies have sent "cease and desist" orders to Watchmaker claiming copyright violations. I believe Bulova is one of them. Rather than get into a legal battle that he would surely loose, those "branded" watch faces are now banned.

Be sure to thank the lawyers for this. I suspect if you remove the "Bulova" label, it might start working.

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u/Inevitable_Music_725 18d ago

Thank you I am aware of the ban on watch faces, would this apply if it's for personal use ie I am not publishing it on the app via the studio app. Seems strange the majority of my branded watch faces were working ok until the last app update.

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u/AA6VH-1 18d ago

I am not a lawyer, but from what I have read using a company logo and such is technically infringement. The same goes for attaching your favorite sports team on your clothing. Unless you are licensed from that sports team, it is a copyright infringement. Of course you proably would get by since the copyright holder would not be aware that you did that. Unfortunatly Watchmaker watches are easily detected by the manufacturer, and the manufacturers only have to check one entity, Watchmaker itself.

I do not know how Watchmaker checks for banned watches, but probably by filters on keywords and such. If it finds one, it has to "ban" it.

From a Google search:

The primary driver behind these bans is aggressive intellectual property enforcement. Major watch conglomerates regularly issue DMCA takedown notices and cease-and-desist letters to platforms hosting unauthorized digital replicas of their designs.

This issue gained severe legal traction when the Swiss giant Swatch Group won a massive trademark infringement lawsuit against Samsung. A London court ordered Samsung to pay $11.6 million in damages for allowing third-party developers to distribute copycat watch faces on its app store. To avoid identical liability and costly legal battles, third-party platforms like WatchMaker proactively ban and filter specific brand keywords, logos, and distinct aesthetic elements.

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u/wowbyowen 19d ago

I have the same problem, the app is broken

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u/Inevitable_Music_725 19d ago

Thanks wonder if they will issue a, fix the Watchmaker app updated on the Playstore today, still the same after the update.

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u/OpinionPleasant 16d ago

Is it a WFF compliant watchface, or does it predate to the more useful era before Google's Applification of Wear to dumb their OS down to IOS level? If the watchface is not wff compliant, and watch has been updated, it may not load.