Sable ‘The Watch’ Solution: How to Solve the Sundial Puzzle

If you venture into the very southeast of Sable’s map, you may come across a mysterious building called ‘The Watch.’ The ruin-like building contains a sundial mechanism, and on the very back wall when you head inside, you’ll see one of the large face-shaped doorways, meaning there’s a puzzle you’ll need to solve in order to open it. In this guide, we’ll be talking you through how to solve Sable’s The Watch puzzle, so you can find out what lies in wait behind that door.

Solving ‘The Watch’ Puzzle in Sable

First things first, you’ll need to make your way around the outskirts of the very upper level of ‘The Watch.’ Here, you’ll find three archways, each of which has a small mechanism beneath it with two directional switches on it.

Use these to move the ball-shaped objects on the large sundial in the center of the room into the rings. Doing this will cause the archway to be illuminated blue, indicating it’s in the correct position.

Do this with each of the three mechanisms until all three archways are glowing blue.

Next, make your way to the opposite side of the room to the one you entered. It has a large blue face on the 2nd floor, with a series of symbols in front of it on pedestals. Ignore these for now, and instead, go up one level and stand on the switch in front of the gold glowing mask.

After doing so, interact with the mask-like object in front of you, and it’ll give you a clue on how to solve the puzzle: “When the sun casts shadows, provide the Stone the answer it seeks.”

You’ll now need to head down to the pedestals with the symbols on them, directly below the switch you’ve just stood on. To complete this next step, it’ll also need to be daytime, otherwise you can’t solve the ‘The Watch’ puzzle in Sable.

With the light shining down on the sundial in the center of the room, look for where the pendant-shaped shadow is on the symbols on the ring.

In the screenshot above, it’s placed over the beetle-like creature with six horns sticking out of its head. Now, go to the middle of the pedestals and grab the sun orb by interacting with it (press X on your controller). Take this orb and place it on the pedestal with the matching symbol.

Doing so should cause a chime to ring out, and the blue-faced door behind you to open up. Congratulations, you’ve just solved Sable’s ‘The Watch’ puzzle.

What Do You Get for Solving It?

Completing the ‘The Watch’ puzzle will get you a piece of Mechanist clothing that Sable can wear. There’s also a map of the solar system projected in mid-air. You can interact with the mechanism just in front of where you walk in to learn more about each of the planets.

That’s everything you need to know on how to solve ‘The Watch’ in Sable. For more tips, tricks, and guides, search for Twinfinite, or see more of our coverage on the game below.