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@Felthry I have a Casio digital watch with analog hands that moves the minute hand in 20-second increments, tbh that's enough to not really notice that it's not continuous

@Felthry well in that case I dislike continuous motion, though it's needed sometimes, for example in wire-synchronized clocks
the second hand moves slightly too fast so it can wait for the sync signal on 0

@noiob out of curiosity, is the minute hand commonly called the second-as-in-2nd hand in German? It's never called that in english, probablyd ue to confusion with the second-as-in-1/60-minute hand. If it is, which one is the first hand; hours or seconds?
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@Felthry .m in steps, just because you get that satisfying tick…tock…tick…tock

@Felthry I'm used to discrete steps and the mechanism to make it work is fascinating, but I think there's uses for both.

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