Pick Your Favorite Motorola Moto 360 Watchface

The Moto 360 smartwatch is still in the works, but Motorola has been running a contest online to find the most stunning watchface for the upcoming Android Wear-based device.

Motorola received more than 1,300 submissions, and narrowed it down this week to 10 finalists. Now it needs your help to pick a winner. Peruse the submissions on Google+ and +1 your favorite in order to cast a vote. Voting ends on June 24 at 6 p.m. ET.

The grand-prize winner will get a Moto 360 when it is released, and nine runners up will get a $50 Google Play gift card. Motorola also reserves the right to use the winning design as a watchface for the Moto 360, and in any marketing, advertising and any other promotional activities by Motorola.

The Moto 360 was revealed in March and will be among the first devices to tap into Google's new Android Wear mobile OS for smartwatches. We expect to hear more about Android Wear and the devices that will use it - like LG's G Watch - at next week's Google I/O.

Until then, check out the watchface designs and comments from the designers in the slideshow, and vote for your favorite in our poll below. Also check out Smartwatches: Ready for Primetime?

Paul Stringer

A car speedometer style watch face with the Hours on the outside and Minutes and Seconds on the inside. When the Second hand gets to the end it flies back to the beginning (very much like a tachometer). The Minute and Hour hands also do this when reach the end of their respective gauges. It also includes the AM/PM Indicator, Time in a digital format and then date.

Layton Diamen

My "Vanishing Hour" watch face concept. As the minute hand makes its way around, the hour is dimmed while revealing the minute marks.

Pawel Hanusowski

Radio-like readout for the Month and Date accompanied by some red accents.

Tyler Allicock

David Pascual

Displays calendar events, allows for user defined notification widgets, and provides status information for basic watch functions (charging, alarm, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi connection.)

Jose Azua

Azua calls this the ANGLES | 360.

Aramis Negron

Simple, new, and easy to read. Strongly believe that each widget should have the entire canvas to portray its information.

Dave McCarthy

A scarcity nowadays, very few manufacturers have seemed to get the smartwatch design quite right. With the Moto360, Motorola decided to take a very classy, and minimalistic approach, so I decided to do the same. Keeping it feeling truly like a watch, the only things on it are the time, date, and a battery indicator. Hope you all like it!

Will Rodriguez

This disc design concept takes a modern approach to showing the time. Minutes are shown through the larger disc in the background (which can be color customized) and the hour is shown through the foreground disc. It also displays notification icons for SMS, email, and health alerts as well as a basic weather widget.

Jason Wang

A last-minute revision of my previous submission, because it's just so much fun brainstorming! Same ideas as before: themed, but only subtlety so; analog fun, but still purely digital. Again, the face bears a passing resemblance to an old radar, but only in aesthetic, as functionally it's very distinct. The smaller arc on top represents the hour, and the larger arc below represents the minute. As arcs, they can be read easily at a glance from any angle. A second hand sweeps over them.

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