"Hrmm, yes, they are interesting. A set of gears, each connected working in stages to spin the three hands all on the same mechanism but each representing a different increment of time. But they aren't an actual measure of time, rather just a means by which we can track what we've arbitrarily decided is a second. Which is interesting to me, time is a phenomenon whose effects we can observe but we cannot truly examine ourselves... Yet."

The man rambled absently as he gestured about at the various diagrams he was drawing.