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Clock hands are (almost always) primarily practical and also just secondarily stylistic or imaginative.

Clock hands can be so fancy and endowed with such tourist attraction that they come to be the center of attention, an end by itself that supersedes capability. We look not a lot to inform the moment about see a timepiece that is stunning or striking.

Onlookers take a look at clock hands very first anyway, since that's just how they tell the time. They have actually learned to choose the position of the hour hand and the placement of the minute hand basically as swiftly as feasible. That's basically all they need from the chronometer to obtain the wanted information.

Simply puts, the clock dial isn't as important as the hands. The numbers or placeholders along the perimeter of the dial are reference points that work as a support of the info already obtained. You do not need to work as tough to figure out the time when the dial is conveniently legible, but you can realize it absent the clock face if you had to.