Just a fun little design. This is a clock created by product designers Arthur Yung and Clement Cheung. They produced a clock known as the “Decode clock”. Each number, spelled out, is readable, but the legibility is emphasized when the black rectangle of the clock hand is directly over the number, emphasizing the words. I found this to be just a fun, rather clever design.  

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